NAUTICAL ELOQUENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 10, 10 December 1883, Page 2

NAUTICAL ELOQUENCE .

; . A gpeajkpy who attjPFftpt^ : to, H*e nautical metapho.i'S. should be thoroughly, familiar with ; the . sea .and .-the working ,of a ship, or he will strand his. i speech. : Jl clergy man *da U 6nce supplying^ pulpit by the seaside.; TJrinJting;, ' to . impress the ■ tru th more distinctly upon the congregation, many of whortx were. seamen, he. drew ihe figure oE, a ship trying. toeuter a harbour against i^,bei}4 ;^4: ',-, ",'■!'•■■ • I. ?.'(■' »:V 7/ j TJnfortuaatoly for the success of ljik metaphor, he knew little of seamanship. After putting the ship m several singular positions, he cried m a tone intended to be emphatic :-^What •shall-we' U6 -wit?"--- ••.!■•■..';■.;.■,- j " The lioi'd only fcnows/' exclaimed a disgusted old tar, " unless you let h.er drift starnforemost !" That. Prince of sailqr preacher.^ Father flPaytbr^ was 'once 'silenced 1 by i Qompliment to his eloquence. He had depisto4 the impenitent sinner- -linger | the figiive of a storift-togsed ship, with her MJiilsji split, and driven by t^e ; gale tovyavd the rock boiittd coast of Cape Ann. . , "Oh, how," he exclaimed, m tones of despaify^'^i^n'cthjjj^ popi*^ sin-tossed sinner behaved?" r; ' •. '' Jnstanily an old jn the gallery; | who hftd listened '-iijrjfli open 'mouth and straining eyes to the pvoacherj jumped to his feet and m a voice '; that' would have sounded above a . Jjurricane} shouted-— . j " Let him pat his helm lurd down, and bear away for, Squam !" I