And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks: na- tion shall not lift up a sword against nation, CHAPTER XV. TIME. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea, and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer.-Rev. x. 5, 6. . 206 THE CHRISTIAN MARINER'S JOURNAL. CHAPTER I. THE DEPARTURE. “ He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust."-Ps.xci. 2. “ Let the sweet hope that thou art mine My life and death attend : And crown my journey's end.” WHEN we are about to leave our friends and home for the first time, it causes no ordinary pain and anxiety ; B |