There is not a
child who has not had his constitution braced by this most favourable
voyage. To-day we passed a steamer in the ice, which had started a
week ahead of us from Glasgow. How we realised at this time the
comfort and rest of having a captain and officers who were men of
prayer.
"The gun was now fired to tell the dwellers at Metis to telegraph
the glad news to you that we were safe in sight of land, though there
are still Amaleks to be overcome,--narrow straits lined with
mountains full of minerals, which are a magnetic attraction to our
ironclads, and more ships have been lost here than anywhere else;
fogs which come and go, ever keeping the sailor as he nears the shore
in anxious trepidation; and shallows that require skill in sounding.
"Sunday, May 7.--A cloudy day, after a week of unspeakable
loving-kindness and tender mercy. We could by faith hear His own voice
within, saying 'My peace I give unto you.' Our children all day were
most obedient, and kind and loving to each other. We spent the
morning together, the last of the kind until we meet on that morning
that hath no clouds. Ere commencing our lesson, we asked a sailor to
lift the hatchway wide open.
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