The sun appeared rising from the ocean, its golden rays
shedding a dazzling brilliance on all around. While we watched, the
scene changed, and a misty veil beclouded the whole horizon, hiding
from our view that which had been so lovely.
"After going down to an early cup of tea we sang our morning hymn of
praise, and had a season of prayer; a very hallowed opportunity it
was, one which brought us again to feel our deep need of grace, to
live one more day to His praise and glory.
"About noon we bad another of those never-ending changes which are
to be met with on this great ocean; the sun came out bright and warm,
the sky became brilliantly blue, and the sea was one sheet of ice
fields as far as the eye could reach.
"Our noble Scotch ironclad rode on her way majestically, leaving a
pathway in the frozen fields to be seen for miles behind, and as she
struck her boom upon the massive sheets of ice, they seemed to
vibrate and cause a movement in huge sheets on before and on either
side. Some magnificent pieces, when touched by the ironclad's power,
shiver into thousands of fragments, others pass our vessel's side,
hard as iron, to be wafted on to the Gulf Stream, there to come under
a warmer influence.
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