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4781 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 110.1 (James Springer White)
… violent storm was at hand, and made what preparations we deemed necessary to meet it. We fortunately escaped from the most violent part of it with but little …
4782 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 113.1 (James Springer White)
… snow-storm as we entered the North Sea, which determined us to go “north about,” and brought us in the vicinity of “Rockal” in a violent storm in the night, which aroused …
4783 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates
… — Terrible Storm — Gulf Stream — Dead Calm and Rushing Hurricane — The Cook’s Prayer — Silent Agony — Wallowing between the Seas — More Respecting the Gale — Leak Increasing …
4784 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 115.2 (James Springer White)
… westerly storm, the wind had come round to the east during the night. To improve this favorable wind, by the time the morning watch was called, we had all the reefs …
4785 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 116.1 (James Springer White)
… , devastating storm in the heavens. The sea had risen to such an awful hight, it seemed sometimes that it would rush over our mast-heads before our heavy-laden …
4786 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 116.2 (James Springer White)
… continual storms on the American coast, or any other coast in the world. Cross it somewhere we must, to reach our home.
4787 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 117.1 (James Springer White)
… 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 …
4788 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 118.2 (James Springer White)
… , 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 …
4789 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 120.1 (James Springer White)
… the storms I have before mentioned, and was losing two hours of my evening watch to get some rest, when I overheard Capt. H., in a dark part of the cabin, praying the …
4790 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 120.2 (James Springer White)
… , raging storm. Capt. 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 our …
4791 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 121.1 (James Springer White)
… dreadful storm, to the peaceful mansions of the Governor of Heaven, and earth, and seas.
4792 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 122.1 (James Springer White)
… , 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 …
4793 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 122.2 (James Springer White)
… 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 …
4794 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates
… Violent Storm — Turk’s Island — Cargo of Rock Salt — Return to Alexandria, D. C. — Voyage to Liverpool — Storm in the Gulf Stream — Singular Phenomenon on the Banks of …
4795 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 132.1 (James Springer White)
… 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 …
4796 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 133.1 (James Springer White)
… winter storms with which we had to contend, and good cheering firesides, surrounded by wives, children, and friends, was great indeed, and cheered us exceedingly …
4797 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 134.3 (James Springer White)
… . 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 …
4798 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 136.2 (James Springer White)
… 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 …
4799 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 145.1 (James Springer White)
… 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 …
4800 The Early Life and Later Experience and Labors of Elder Joseph Bates, p. 156.2 (James Springer White)
… snow-storms, we were enabled to double the cape and shape our course for the island of Juan Fernandez, some fourteen hundred miles north of us. The westerly …