THE INCONSTANT DEEP

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1679, 4 May 1904, Page 81 (Supplement)

THE INCONSTANT DEEP

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glori[ops, ever-changmgoceaip or maiy in ; thecieß'ghts of" a sail- on her flittering,. •;.<■ hcaying, Jdlrfaoey ’ yet when; she' is: in, - : ; \\ :apgityj;tadp<%'- tyben" a .wild hurricane ;is': | v dashing; beivinto a: paroxysm. pf/ungoy-;. - ’ erhabler and ahe-threateus with deaiwfetidd;those; whe.hay e the. temerity to - ■ brave-hrer Wratli. then that sen'se of restful enjoyment gives place for the time > t' to a. d^tinctip^efehenpe. for terra’firpia, "’ and that innate Io ve.fot. her temporarily iU facies away,into the oblivion, pf ,f prgetfiulness.- /■ c v.ri'y f;"7. .. sOlllO ,timp agp a writer, had an experi- : puce, of this kind which hehopes never to | >7 repeat. ; lt was in the Medi tepraiiean; off j 'O-Xh.o coast The popper-coloured j .t’t.spp.sinLfe dowii in.the; midst, of a lurid • :• oonflagratiob of angry fires into a frown- -, ring bank- of -threaten ing cloud of a dark. • ; miljen; :ihdigo~ hue. Wisps of driven/tCyapoiUi* .scud rapidly 'along, gathering ;v volume.as they course low clown near the • sea.V: The moderate breezei is giving ; . place> -though, at first htfuily; to.gulsts . 7; and blasts- eyerr mote ancVmore virulent;.. .f V.ipto thp. murky. -blaclmess pf: a .wild- tur~ ;/fbttlPnt -nif hitv And. now: tbe.viahs'bf tlie : r , pF-.. Nature are:poured put; 'the if iibe good’, ship full, and gtoalning and creaking she ehsays to ■ climb the. ndghty ' foam-crested Avaves •■ which tower liigh above bar as she lab’7; Ours in the' frothy trough, or Avith boAvs pointed, towards the depths, she; plunges • :downy 1 down the: niountainpus' - wall of waters, as though noticing could. prevent . * herv from oontiniuing her. . downward course 'right-on to the prof oiioi deist clepth of the. wateity; abyss., . 7 . Aid, now with : a great crash one of. the r ' .boats is blown away,' soon followed by a j dashing bither and .thither upon the deck; and the, roaring of the hurricane, the breakage of crockery, the shrieks of Soane terrified ladies in an adjoining cabin, who apparently thought that their

doom was sealed, together with the “tracing*’, of the. screw', hoarse stridor of the panting engines, produce a. discordant uproar altogether indescribable. ' N,/

But at length the long terrible night hais parsed, .thei gale lias in ode rat el, and a gloHous mourning has> dawned, tlie sun rising above the horizon, in a cloudless sky, transforming the spray front the still high roiling billow's into sparkling •showers', of flashing, lovely -lined - sardonyx, gemming the heaving surface in a flood of rose-pink and' carmine, h Aye, it is in times like 1 those, when the spear of the angel of .death may strike at any '.moment-, and set free the spirit from its--mortal bondls, that those .who" know that tlieir names are. inscribed on high as inheritors- of the Kingdoip, have no fear. 1 Eor, .having accepted : the' Saviour of the world as their .Redeemer, •they know that He has home the punish-;, ment for''their sms, and that a Holy, God will, not punish twice for the same . sms* ; "O' : . ■’ .0-,0- -