SHIPWRECKED--BUT NOT LOST.
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills whence cometh my help."

FEW Iives there are upon whose page sooner or later there is not written the record of a tragedy. It may come in the loss of a friend, or a parent, or a wife or husband, or a child. It may come in the wreck of a fortune or the stranding of a worldly ambition. Some day while pursuing a peaceful voyage the cry will go forth, "Breakers ahead," and in spite of our vigilance and our prayers the stout ship will founder and we will be cast upon untrodden shores of duty and experience. It is in such emergencies as these that the Christian has resources that the man of the world knows not of. Unlike Crusoe he does not turn his desperate gaze toward the halfsunken ship if perchance he may regain some of its stores. He recalls rather those sweet promises of God which await redemption in the hour of need. "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." He remembers that and forthwith in the midst of his extreme peril and helplessness he cries: I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Psalms 121:1-2.

Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He bringeth them out of their distresses.

Psalms 107:28.

Scanned from Fifty Great Cartoons (Chicago: The Ram's Horn Press, 1899) unpaginated. This cartoon is part of the collections of the The Cartoon Research Library of Ohio State University.