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Show Titniut. isirnusTiNO tacti aooit SAii.ons' IIIIIXH-OKTIILI. UOKk There ate more thin 4 ow ooii seamen In the world, with t uoo.ono of families ducclly conn ctcd wall them. 'Ihe commerce of the t'nited States employs 51x1 orsi nsllnrs, in 6snoti deep sen cnels, and 50103 Aineticiu ltorn seitnen are members of Chrlslian churches (In more thm sooeessels ChiUilm services arc held cichweek. More than 100,000 saloons In the potts of civilised unions ate wide npenfor their destruction, white In all the world there art hardl) 1 jo liethds for their till itlon M re than 3 i,oi during the 1 ini eight eirs in our country have been Ind iced to .luii the temperance pledge. JSeiilt 1 uoexvisailorkarilxd nt 111 1 departed from Hie polls of tin United blaics the h.l )enr, mostly of lorrln tilitti tin origin of tin !wt known sillors' h)mna is interesting nustolthiin he-iug he-iug 1 rodureil alter p'lilous experiences nt se.i Perhaps no hj mil is more sung on llin water thin Lharle-H Wes'ey's, beginning Jmui, later f xrf loul It w is wiitteu i?t", shortl) adcr V le s leturn fiom Amtfrci to 1 1 g. 1 111 1 and during the first stormy scenes' ol his Itlnernui preaching lielhrf the hgiiies In the first stancu wne suggest eelb die Morula Of llie Atlantic wliich i the writer iind butreeriill encountered orb the stomisui hum in p wlon, we c ninot is, llui in M of Ihe se-i hymns uf Clnrles Weaiei were but the unfo'iluus of arliul eiperlvi cex Uishoii llcbet a matchless hinui be ginning, . VVI "ittouah ih I n sill rtir 1.1 mcinji4l t. urnm ng," wis wiltten aficr slnilhr experiences I he bishop toot, nn alleeilon ite intciet lu the humblest sailors during Ills wv jges.. 'Only to think mid a grateful seaman, of such n gieai mm is the bishop coml ig between deek to pray with such poor fellow it as tlr ' About 1 su e ir igo there wandered iinonM the palm proves of Sleirn I eone, a young rni,ltshm 111 who Ind fillen so 1 Ida ok 10 be shunned eeen by the rude I trad, rs o 1 Ihe coa.t. n d by the African slaw. Ilo had little cotl ing; he went I hungry, n id often was obliged to subsist I upon roots 1 1 it life was not only atilti. led with vl e, bit wi h eiclousucs In its iiut disgiisiiiig lorms. Hi had .1 I pious mother and llie memory of her eoun els and prayers, 1 k good nugels, fullowedhim m all il Ins wnudeiiugs I t aping it I i-.t from Ihe coast, lie heeuredn pissige tor I nlmd During die hotnewitd vol age the ship 1 encountered a terrible storm "I began to pri), ' lie 1.11.I 1 eoul.l not inter lliepnyerol faith. My pr.iyer was like the cry ot the rieiis, which yet the I.uid does not disdiln to heir. Ihe a urni KUbslded, but the youni; man, sick at last uf sin, continued to pra) (od revealed his a iKation to him on the ocean, and out of this deep experience came the sailor's hymn, beginning, 'l tiMt tile tempest s a f t soutlll, I t.-.l II e il ilck ItlKiuij . nj f ar 111 ghl iiow my Ikncm lilt. ' llul leu trlmm Inc. I tilllll la llil. Iiridh r I el ng 10 llier My Siviwwr vmctCfil lor ins. H llul I pailih be lay will Indeini, I ill ulil.per, IVare' be IIIUI That young man wis John Newton, the rector of bt Woolnoth, I ondon, the friend of Cow per and the w titer ol a pari ol the Oli.ev hymns. The Gospel Hymns ofllhss .1 Sanxey rchte In pan to the lives ind experiences uf seamen. ' l'ull for the shore," also by I'. I. ltllss, Is a populirhyiniion the sex It was suggested by the following incident in "1 hint, New nnd Old". "We witched the w reek with greit anxiety. Ihe lifeboat had been out some hours, but could not reach the vcsel through the great breikers tint rated and foamed on the snn 1 bank. Ihe boat appeared to be leu ing the crew to perish. Hut in 1 few minutes tho captain in I le sailors were taken olf and the vessel went down When the lifeboat came 'o you. did you expect It h id biought 1.01110 tools to lepair your old ship' I said " OU, no hIib was 1 total wreck. Two of her nn.ts wero gone, and If wc 1 hid stayed mending her only a few I minutes we must nave gone down, sir.' ' When once olf tho old wreck and safe In the llfeboit, what remains for you to do?' ' 'Nothing, Mr, but just to pull for the shore ' " Still another manners' hymn imong the l.ospel Hymns 1st M elthcl.owrr Lights bo II imlng," also by I". I'. Illlss. On n link stormy night, when the wives rolled likemoun. I ilns am! not islar wns to lu seen, a boat, roekhg mil pluntjng, nearcd the Ucvehiidhirbur "Are you sure this 1 Cleveland?' asked the ciptaui seetne, only ore light iruni the hUnhou.r ' Ouiie sure, sir," is plied the pilot. ' Where tire the lowerllghts?" ' Gone out sir ' ' Can you make the harbor? ' ' We mint, iiriitrish. sir " And wnhastiong hand and ti brive heart th old pilot turned the wheel Hut ilis In the darkness he missed ihe thannel, aid with i crish upon the rocks (lie bun wis shivered mid many a lid 10,1 Inn witery gtnve Still another manners' hymn, of the I i.oi,l songs, is suggested inouCinnot oil the Ocean," by I'l tlii l'l mips It was a fivorlte hymn uf I'rcMdent Lincoln The vvotds arc b) Mrs rilcnll Gates. Sho hays 'The lines were written upon my slate one snowy nfiernoon in the winter ot Ifeco 1 knew, ns I know now, that the poem was only a simple little thing, I tit somehow I had a presentiment that It hid wings. |