ON STORMY SEAOn a rolling, surging, tossing sea.The craft of my life is striving; t know not where the haven may be.Nor whither the wind is driving.One day of sunshine, the next of cloud.The vessel sails on unheeding;Often in terror I cry aloud,Ihouth I know not what is needing.Why should I cry when I can not know 1 he depth or height of each billow*Why thunder rolls, or wind doth blow, More than brook knows of the willow?0 foolish, fretful mariner I,To cry when the gale is blowing In fury under an angry sky:Rather sing as the crowd is growing.My Lord hath power over wind and ward.“The sea is His, for He made it:In Galilee’s storm, “O Master, save I’*Was enough, and He forbade it.•1 rest in Thee on a restless sea,O Captain of my salvation;Thy word of “Peace is enough for me. Thou Lord of the whole creation.So, when I cry be graciously nigh,To chide me for my behavior;Though stars be hid. and the tempest high, Save me. O save me. my Saviour.—Thos. Elgar, in Christian Enquirer.