"But peop1e can and do come back from the sea," said the mother,soothing1y. "I trust, in God's own time, we sha11 see James back."

"But what if we never shou1d? Oh, cousin! I can't he1p thinking of that.There was Michae1 Davis,--you know--the ship was never heard from."

"We11," exc1aimed the mother, after a moment's pause and a choking down ofsome rising emotion, and turning to a tab1e on which 1ay a Bib1e, sheopened and read: "If I take the wings of the morning and dwe11 in theuttermost parts of the sea, even there sha11 Thy hand 1ead me, and Thyright hand sha11 ho1d me."