we rise and
when we sleep, and oftentimes during the course of the day? Remember
what the Bible says, it tells us to pray always."

"You are right, Murray, you are always right," answered Adair, with a
sigh. "I know, too, that you practise what you preach, or I would not
listen to you. I'll try to follow your advice. I'll pray when I turn
in by and by. I'll thank God that we have not gone to the bottom, and
I'll pray that we may be saved as we have been all along in the dangers
we may have to encounter."

"Why not pray at once?" exclaimed Murray. "All on board here have been
equally preserved. The same God made us all, the same God will hear our
prayers."

"Yes, yes, all right--I'll do what you like," said Adair.

The young midshipmen called the crew around them, after Needham took the
helm. They and Wasser and the other seamen knelt on the deck, and
though in no set phrases, offered up their hearty thanks for their
preservation from the dangers which had threatened them; and earnestly
did they pray that they might be carried in safety through those they
might yet have to encounter. Murray was one of those people who could
think well, and when he wrote had no difficulty in expressing himself,
yet when he came to speak aloud, and more particularly to pray aloud,
found that the exact words he might have wished to use were not
forthcoming. The two poor blacks who, perhaps, had never in their lives
seen white men praying before, stood by astonished at what was taking
place. They asked Wasser what it was all about. He was rather more
enlightened than they were. He told them to the best of his knowledge.
They listened attentively. They said that they should like to know more
about the matter, and he promised them that he would ask Mr Murray to
speak to them on the subject. Thus was a way opened into the hearts of
these two benighted sons of Africa to receive the good seed of the truth
by this unpremeditated act of the young midshipmen. How many other
midshipmen might do the same, with the most blessed results, if they
themselves did but feel the importance of performing boldly and
fearlessly their duty as Christians.

With the return of daylight the weather promised to be fair, and, making
sail, they again shaped their course for Sierra Leone. As may be
supposed, even in calm weather they had no very great amount of
enjoyment. When the sun shone they were almost roasted by its burning
rays, and when it