FRIEND AHOY!

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 29, 1877

[As ships meet at sea, a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away into the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs, giving him supplies.]

Friend ahoy! How many days Hast thou been out? How many nights? Did friends stand watching on thy ways? Do lovers trim the lights?

Friend ahoy! Art thou in need Of aught we carry? Make but sign Which we across the waves may read, And all our store is thine.

Friend ahoy! Draw near! draw near! Let us, at least one short hour, sail Close side by side. Let words of cheer Over our griefs prevail.

Friend ahoy! The waves toss white. Rises the wind which parts us far; We shall ride out the stormy night By help of the self-same star.

Friend ahoy! Farewell! farewell! Grief unto grief, joy unto joy, Greeting and help the echoes tell Faint, but eternal—Friend ahoy!

— Christian Union.