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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 22, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 6.

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Safely Anchored.

A little sloop, with costly merchandise on board, was once intrusted to the care of a man-of-war, which was to convey it from the Cape of Good Hope to England. For many days they kept together, and then a storm came on. When it cleared again, the little sloop was nowhere to be seen, and, though a sharp lookout was kept for her, it was all in vain.
The commander was very sorry, for he knew the value of the rich stores on board, and how precious the lives of every one of that crew were to some little circle at home. He anchored at last in Portsmouth harbor, in a heavy fog. When it lifted, what was his surprise and joy to find, anchored very near him, the very little craft over which he was grieving!
O Sabbath-school teacher, how many of these precious little barks which we have convoyed, do we lose sight of in our life's voyage! How many times we mourn over them as lost, when it may be they are only lost to our sight! When the fog lifts, we may see them anchored safe beside us in the celestial harbor. Who cannot say with the saintly Rutherford:
“And if one soul from Anworth Meet me at God’s right hand, My Heaven will be two Heavens In Immanuel’s land.”
—Sel.