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4161 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 113.1 (Joseph Bates)
… , devastating storm in the heavens. The sea had risen to such an awful height, it seemed sometimes that it would rush over our mast-heads before our heavy-laden …
4162 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 113.2 (Joseph Bates)
… continual storms on the American coast, or any other coast in the world. Cross it somewhere we must to reach our home.
4163 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 114.1 (Joseph Bates)
… increasing storm. He was unwilling to see it, but said, “Mr. Bates, keep the ship dead before the sea!” That was our only hope. Our tiller had been broken off within …
4164 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 115.2 (Joseph Bates)
… , raging storm. This was the first prayer that I ever heard uttered in a storm upon the ocean. Sinners as we were, I believe it was remembered by Him whose ear is …
4165 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 116.1 (Joseph Bates)
… the storms I have before mentioned, and was losing two hours of my evening watch to get some rest, when I overheard Captain H., in a dark part of the cabin, praying …
4166 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 117.1 (Joseph Bates)
… , raging storm. Captain H. was next behind me, the second mate and crew all ranged along the weather side of the quarter-deck, waiting in silence the decision of …
4167 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 118.1 (Joseph Bates)
… dreadful storm, to the peaceful mansions of the Governor of Heaven, and earth, and seas.
4168 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 119.1 (Joseph Bates)
… raging storm. Said the minister, “I want to pray for that ship’s company.” His prayer was so fervent, and made so deep an impression on my wife, that she noted down …
4169 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 119.2 (Joseph Bates)
… the storm. This was the most peculiar and trying storm in all my experience; neither have I read of the like in its nature and duration. The marvel with us was …
4170 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates
… Violent Storm-Turk’s Island-Stacks of Salt-Cargo of Rock Salt-Return to Alexandria, D. C.-Voyage in the Ship Talbot to Liverpool-Storm in the Gulf Stream-Singular …
4171 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 128.2 (Joseph Bates)
… tempestuous storm in the gulf stream, off Cape Hatteras. During the midnight watch George came rushing into the cabin, crying, “Father! father! the ship is sinking …
4172 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 130.1 (Joseph Bates)
… winter storms which we had to contend with, and a good cheering fireside, surrounded by wives, children and friends, was great indeed, and cheered us exceedingly …
4173 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 130.4 (Joseph Bates)
… . Our storm sails were now reefed, and every needful preparation made if the cables parted, to chop them off at the windlass, and crowd on every storm-sail the …
4174 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 132.2 (Joseph Bates)
… and storm overtook us in the Gulf Stream, attended with awful thunder and vivid streaks of lightning. The heavy, dark clouds seeming but just above our mast …
4175 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 141.1 (Joseph Bates)
… and storm, at the close of which we were drifting on to a rock-bound, uninhabited part of the coast. The wind died away to a dead calm, the sea and current setting …
4176 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 152.1 (Joseph Bates)
… a storm, by beating up into Falkland Sound, but the increasing gale obliged us to bear up and continue our southern course. On arriving off Cape Horn, about July …
4177 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 155.2 (Joseph Bates)
… no storms of rain, and the people say it never rains there. Their city is walled and guarded on the east by towering mountains, easy of ascent, even above the white …
4178 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 172.1 (Joseph Bates)
… many storms to meet, or how far from home, the joyous feeling still vibrates in every heart -
4179 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 174.1 (Joseph Bates)
… driving storm; but the wind was fair to go eastward, so that in forty-eight hours we were safely round the Horn in the south Atlantic Ocean, steering northward …
4180 The Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 175.3 (Joseph Bates)
… driving storms, often rendering them unmanageable, especially in and about this stream.