"a babe lists to music,
Wondering, but not afrighted."
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1t was moral cause operating within, and
not the intimidating aspect without, that
had given rise to the feelings existing in
his bosom. ].


In the providence of God, the instructions
of the day had been of the most solemn
and impressive kind. An instance of NOR
tality had occurred in the ships company,
similar, in it's characteristics and appalling
results, to the tens of thousands which, in
various sections Of the world, testify to the
existence Of a pestilence that, with uncon-
trolled devastation, twalketh in darkness,
and wasteth the noon-day.' One Of the
most athletic and youthful Of the crew
one who but the day previous had trod the
decks with step as vigorous and elastic,
and with a heart as thoughtless and as
gay, as any of his companions-h after
the agony of a few hours, fallen into the
arms of death; and with the dawn Of the
coming morning, was to be seen stretched
on the forcastle in the habiliments of the
grave, awaiting, beneath the banner Of his
country, the hour when his body should be
committed to the deep, there to rest till the
sea shall give up its dead


So silently and so swiftly had the des.
troyer passed, that many on BOARD were ig-
norant of the visitation, till, coming on
deck, their eyes met the resistless evidence
Of it in the lifeless corpse of their fellow
The only expression that for a long time
was heard to re-echo from one and another
as the startling fact fastened itself upon
them, was, "Can il be possible that +
is dead !" And for hours after, as if still
incredulous of the reality, one and another
might be seen slowly to approach his bier,
and turning aside its star-spangled covering,
by long and silent gaze on the fixed and
death stricken features of the youthful vic
tim, to assure themselves that the spirit had
indeed forsaken its earthly abode; while
the haf-suppressed sigh, and, in some in
stances, the gathering tear, hastily brushed
from hardy cheek, told how reluctantly
they yielded themselves to the unwelcome
truth.


1t was after a day marked by scenes and
impressions such as these, that the two in
dividuals now introduced, had met each
other on deck at the setting of the first
night watch. Only one hour before their
meeting, the body of their departed ship.
mate, with the solemn rites of burial a
sea, had been to a fathomless grave; ant
with every thought absorbed in the affect.
ing event which had befallen them, They
involuntarily spoke to each other OF IN,
frailty and uncertainty Of life, Of the SO
lemniiy Of death, aud the eternity of bless
edness and wo revealed to man in the wore
,of God.