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138 12 ‘ There, Christy, boy, there’s shoes for you’ 13 His hair almost rose up with fright 14 At six o’clock the boys went out 15 They took the clothes and nice mince pies 16 Our wants have mostly been supplied 17 And she would come and read to Chris. 18 And there in everlasting joy Saved from the Sea. From Mrs, Sewell. 1 A gallant ship went out to sea 2 It was a child—a little girl 3 And every means the good wife used 4 The weeping stranger told her tale 5 I’d send it to the union house 6 And, as she read, she strongly felt 7 The fishing boat went out to sea 8 ‘ Tis on my mind, dear child,’ she said 9 ‘ God bless you all, and keep you His ’ 10 The old man gave the bride away The Road to Heaven. Reading in Verse, by Robert Craven, C.M. 1 ‘ Let me look at him, doctor, at least once more 2 Cuddling close together, there they sat 3 He’d a drunken father and mother to fight [Repeat 2] The two sat crouched on that stony seat 4 ‘ There, look,’ said he, ‘ look at them waters below ’ 5 His balance he lost and down, down he fell 6 Into the hospital ward he was borne 7 He ventured to ask him, ‘ Please sir, are you God ’ [Repeat 1] And there in that hospital ward he lay Our Father’s Care. By Mrs. Sewell. 1 When suddenly starting, poor Nelly awoke 2 “ Ah, Nelly, my blessing,” the sick woman said. 3 With shivering limbs and her pattering feet 4 The Farringdon market is open at five 5 Then off to the pump she courageously goes 6 And Nelly’s poor mother is sick and alone 7 And then looked within at his bright blazing fire 8 And still Nelly kept singing her song 9 The gentleman came down himself to the door 10 And now let us look in that poor upper room 11 “ Ah I Nelly, you’ve come to see poor father die ” 12 And the hand of death had broken the chain of his grief and pain 13 Mother must not grieve, thought Nelly When, through the hand of providence, there came the timely aid