THE IIFE-BUOY OF THE.


SOUL. Il .as, mts \

BY REV. 4. G. STEWART, !, ,A.4Mpa

CHAPLAIN IN THE NAVY, U. ). 4.
{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1822, "word_count": 327, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9843000173568726], "ccnet_perplexity": [869.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
The calling of the midnight watch first
reminded two youthful voyagers the distant
Pacific, that the conversation which they
were engaged had been prolonged to an un-
reasonable hour. It was the signal for one
as an officer of the ship, to take the post Of
duty in command on deck; and the custo-
mary salutations of a separation for the
night were abruptly and hastily inter
changed. ,sTa'.9.l '.sg...t..


A careless spectator might not have OBJ
served any thing peculiar in the manner in
which these were made; but one accus-
toned to the study of his fellows would
have read, in the expressive grasp Of sal
lor's hand, and in the subdued tones Of a
manly voice, some unaccustomed state of
mind, some deep feeling Of the heart
Nor would he have been deceived in the
fact, though he might have mistaken the
cause. Fgg tus taf


cloudless, sultry, and listless day at the
equator, had been suddenly succeeded by al
gloomy and foreboding night, with every
indication, in wild and ragged sky above,
and deeply heaving and moaning sea be-
low, of some further, and not distant change:
a change which might come upon the
lonely bark with power alike destructive,
whether exhibited in the rending fury OF
the lightning, or in the desula!ion Of tor
nado II,
| But it was not that, under circumstances
such as these, he was called upon to as
sumo the responsibility Of the deck, that
the tones of sadness were distinguished in
the sailors voice, or that the trepidation Of
an agitated mind was imparte TO his hand.
No! To him the sea had lost its terrors.--
From early boyhood till now, in the full
ness of his youth, he had been familiar with
it's fitful changes-had been lulled to his
soundest slumber by its storms, and gazed
upon the most fearful Of its tempests only
as Ap8 e@t


"a babe lists to music,


k,f,, cGc,r~ htol