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XI. 



THE GOODNESS OF GOD. 



MY DEAR FRIENDS, 



I am glad to meet you again, and to see those 

 faces around me which I have so frequently 

 looked upon with pleasure. That pleasure is 

 increased by the feeling that I may not only 

 have amused you, but possibly have done you 

 some little good, inducing you to feel that, 

 although your occupation leads you on the 

 great waters, you have an immortal soul to 

 attend to. You fishermen ought, indeed, to be 

 more conscious than landsmen that you are in 

 the Divine Presence, and have been constantly 

 indebted to Divine protection. When at sea, 

 you have little to look upon but the heavens 

 above or the boundless ocean around you. Both 



