| Show some facts about the titanic disaster when a catastrophe caLa strophe like the shipwreck of tile the g great reat ti titanic banic or any other great disaster lias has happened therease the ther re eare are always those who sumpat jum p pat at the opportunity to proclaim their unbelief uno elief in the existence istance exis ex taneo of a supreme 1 being find and argue 0 that a 1 et n merciful M rod god would not nofa permit uch calamities to io ha happen pen t and such de st auction of human I 1 life ife yo take placa and it is now a as s in tile bof the david from f who seth 3 th psalm we quote the foo Asa yet aln his heart thare is rip god Q 1 N the wise manwill man will take in thy the situation of 60 the titanic anic and 1 reason from cause to effect as t touching 0 it destruction an and in the place or of blaming an 0 over ve ruling ru iti providence or deny ing his existence will w i t I 1 I 1 reconcile the causes and effect with the laws j of nature and in d existing known conditions and facts we suppose that ib is known by ull all navigators and civilized i people generally g ne rally that around a the north rth pole ire are mighty glaciers t of ice froni from which great m asses b reak break loose and with wilh the polar cur currents float v down ou on either eathor side of greenland but mostly on oil the west side gide thru B baffino Baff a afi ins ns day passing p aissin the coasts of now new and Found land and labrador continuing ta south until de solved iu ill the warin warm gulf stream those s mighty masses of f ice called ice bergs have great graat latitude height t and depth containing millions of tons of ice and are known to be dan dangerous r crous to navigation in the N W atlantic ocean but can be av avoided ideal by steering V farther south but tho the titanic was clair claimed ned by its builders and supposed by its owners to be practically indestructible in this they had overestimated her she was on her maiden trip f from born em england land to new Y york ork and break all record of f time andhor and for that purpose to took the most direct raube which brought her into inlo the ice berg zone one with result as known the titanic was a floating aiala dalae e wit with 11 ll aO OOOO t ton n displacement lenth length len th 12 1 2 feet width 04 91 fel feet t depth f from roin upper deck to heel 97 13 feet speed 22 miles an ho hour ur cost about 1 WOO U haff baff of af which was I 1 covered by insurance the ilie ship could carry and accorn 2600 2500 passengers ca and had a crew t of 80 men inen in the Ti titan tic the science in ship hip building huil ding see seemed tried to have reached its highest n both its as to beauty comfort and t acu security rity and it as cupps d that no collision could make the ship sink captain smith the ships captain had declared that the ship wo would uld keep afloat even if broken in two but they had lost their reckoning the disaster was tile the natural effect of causes with which providence does not interfere |
