Our Blue Jackets; Miss Weston's Life and Work Among Our Sailors

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. FIRST YEAR'S WORK AT THE SAILORS' HEN the traveller reaches the top of a hill, from which he can look back upon the road over which he has journeyed, and sees how it has led him to the height on which he stands, he is more than repaid for all his toil. "The way has been rough," he says to himself, "but I am glad that I came." After the first year of work at the Sailors' Rest, Miss Weston and her helpers could say the same; many things had to be learnt through the teaching of that hard master "bitter experience; " blunders had to be corrected and retrieved, and much learned and much unlearned. Woe to the simple heart who, starting a Home, Institute, British Workman, or Refuge, imagines that with the building and fitting up the worst troubles REST, are over i Generally difficulties only then commence; especially if the staff chosen for the work are not exactly suited to their posts; a testing time is sure to come in one way or another. Before a cable is supplied to any of our ships, it is always subjected to a severe strain to see whether its links are sound or defective; and before it is fit for. service the weak links must be removed, and stronger ones put in. The mill, if it does its work thoroughly, grinds the corn and throws out the chaff; and the fire purifies the gold: so, under God, with the work and the worker; troubles and mistakes beget experience, and truly experience is a priceless possession, that no man can take away. After all the labour and bustle of fitting up and altering, the opening day came at last. Bright and beautiful dawned Monday, May 8th, 1876; the doors were thrown open at 5 o'clock in the morning, and business commenced without ostentation or display; the opening ceremony being the simple fact, that the previous even...

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