GOD'S CARE | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 24, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 12.

GOD'S CARE.

A THOUGHTLESS little fellow, having been praying in his fright, as he passed through a dark strip of woods, exclaimed, “You needn’t take care of me any longer, dear Lord; I can see grandmother’s house now!” He forgot that God watched over grandmother and boy, and that we need His care about us night and day.

Sometimes He sends strange messengers to our aid. Here is an incident that shows how He watches over His people at sea.

That the ocean abounds in wonders is daily being proved, and seldom more forcibly so than in the experience of Captain Ward, of the bark Providence, at Hartlepool, who had just returned from Dantzic, at which port he was frozen up during one late severe winter. He states that during his outward voyage to that port, in November last, the ship sprang a severe leak during a gale in the Baltic, and the crew were all but exhausted in their efforts at the pumps to reduce it. One day she suddenly stopped making more water, and in time the vessel reached Dantzic safely. After the discharge of the cargo, a search was made for the leak, and a hole was found in the center of one of the after planks from a yielding of a knot in the wood; in this hole there was wedged a fish, whose collision with the vessel had stopped the leak and saved the ship and crew.—Anonymous.