A Sailor in Dlfficulties
Th© following anecdote is related of • Scotch tar who once had a narrow escape from imminent periL He was •- in a ship frozen in, in the Arctic Begione, and like young Nelson, ' had strayed on the ice, heedless <d danger. He was far from tfo teetel' ' "; when he saw, coming round a Blpok of ice, a huge pokr bear x«Kdfcu»g%s directly towarcb him. TotaQjs*- WsW^j provided with any defensive .■aijsjm >i hot hif knife, he bethought aWrtlf^ : of an bld>world weapon for extremflir'ca*w—Prayer. But how? And what? There wcis no.time to deHberateY *h# " monster was,near. and delay would be f atafto the poor fellow/ So he opened . '■ his knife ana grasped it finnly-^hur-^ riedly uttered a f ew words(--ho^r ' earnestly can hardly be imagined, bait their ruggedness speaks forcibly, of a mingled terror, desperate courage, and dim-twinkling faith : "0 Lord, I '' dinna- trouble ye iften ;- but ye "'see me, an' ye see this bear. 0 Lord, an* ' ye winna help me', dinna help the bear. And if yell help neither the ane nor the Hher, stan* by an* see fair play ; for this'll be a maist awfu' fecht. Amen!" H|s prayer was answered for he fired # toll it!
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 2
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