p. 10 | BLOWN OUT TO SEA by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 20, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 16.

BLOWN OUT TO SEA.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

WE are told that in stormy weather it is not unusual for small birds to be blown out of sight of land to the sea. They are often seen out of their reckoning and far from the coast, hovering far up over the mast on weary wings, as if they wanted to alight and rest themselves, but feared to do so. A traveler tells us that on one occasion a little lark, which followed the ship for a considerable distance, was at last compelled through sheer weariness to alight. He was so worn out as to be easily caught. The warm hand was so agreeable to him that he sat down on it, burying his little cold feet in his feathers, and looking about with his bright eye, not in the least afraid, as if feeling assured that he had been cast among good, kind people, whom he had no occasion to be so backward in trusting. A touching picture of the soul who is aroused by the Spirit of

God, and blown out of its reckoning by the winds of conviction; and the warm reception which the little bird received at the hands of passengers conveys but a faint idea of that welcome which will always greet the worn-out, sin-sick souls who will commit themselves into the hands of the only Saviour.

—Spurgeon.