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Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading - Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from - images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LIGHT HO, SIR!" *** - - - - -“LIGHT HO, SIR!” - - - - - “LIGHT HO, SIR!” - - BY - FRANK T. BULLEN - AUTHOR OF “CRUISE OF THE CACHALOT” - - [Illustration] - - NEW YORK - THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. - PUBLISHERS - - - - - Copyright, 1901, - By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY. - - - - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE - - LIGHT HO, SIR! 7 - - MY NIGHT WATCH IS OVER 21 - - - - -“LIGHT HO, SIR!” - - -Those people who are always striving to trace back to a man’s early -training or surroundings the real reason for any startling change in -his life after he has long grown up, and do not believe in what the -Bible calls the New Birth, must often be sorely puzzled. They seek -for that which they wish to find, and often ignore any evidence which -militates against their preconceived theories. Yet the majority of -them would be horrified were they told that this method of research is -dishonest and misleading. - -But in spite of what people may feel about the matter, it is of no -use blinking the fact that very much of the so-called scientific -investigation (which is not commercial) that is pursued to-day is -tainted with this radical defect. Especially is this so in matters of -inquiry into religious experience. There are many exceedingly clever -and well-educated persons who would have their readers believe that in -all cases where a man or woman has become a Christian, and from serving -the devil has turned and consistently served God, the change has been -due to early impressions, which, accidentally encrusted over for a -term, have been suddenly revived in all their pristine force, and have -compelled the mind back into the channels in which it was originally -taught to move. - -Now, if this were all that these reasoners said, one might remind -them, or inform them gently, that they were only partially right--that -while it is undoubtedly blessedly true that early influences for good -do exert themselves most forcefully and unexpectedly in after years -in a large number of cases, yet it is most untrue and God-dishonoring -to suggest that Christianity is purely a matter of education, of -environment, of a long acquaintance with religious persons and matters. -So far from this being the case, it is a truism with Christian workers -that very frequently their most hopeful converts have been those who -never heard the Gospel before, or at least had never listened to it -with the slightest attention, even though they may have actually caught -the tones of the preacher’s voice. To such simple ones the Water of the -Word of Grace comes like the monsoon rains upon the burnt-up breadths -of India, causing the apparently dead soil to put on at once a glorious -garment of living green, life-giving, life-sustaining, beautifying and -blessing all around it. - -One of the most striking instances of this wonderful work of God in -the soul that has ever come under my notice is that of a sailor who, -strange as it may seem to-day, had never, until the time of which I -speak, received the remotest idea of the relations of God to man, and -had not the faintest conception of religion of any kind. Born in the -squalid slums of a Lancashire town nearly sixty years ago, he became -at a very early age a waif of the streets, losing all recollection of -who were his parents, as they had forgotten all about him. It is hardly -possible to conceive of a mind more perfectly desert than was John -Wilson’s. Reading and writing were of course out of the question, and -it is probable that any mental operations that went on in his dark mind -were more nearly related to brute instincts than to any of the ordinary -processes of human reasoning. - -Now it is no part of my present plan, even if I had the necessary -material, to trace Johnny’s career from the gutters of ---- until he -found himself in the position of boy on board a North Country collier -brig, being then, as he supposed, about thirteen years of age. By some -inherited tenacity of constitution he had survived those years of -starvation, cold, and brutality, and was, upon going to sea, like a -well-seasoned rattan, without an ounce of superfluous flesh upon him, -and with a capacity for stolid endurance almost equalling a Seminole -Indian. - -Of kindness he knew nothing, and had any one shown him any -disinterested attention, he would have been as alarmed as are the birds -in a London garden when a lover of them goes out to scatter crumbs. -He would have suspected designs upon his liberty, or something worse. -Of the treatment he endured on board those East Coast colliers I do -not dare to speak at present. The recital would, I know, arouse an -almost frantic feeling of resentment that such things should have been -possible such a handful of years ago, and readers would forget that, -by the blessing of God, men’s hearts to-day, even in the lowest strata -of our society, have been marvellously softened towards children. He -learned many things on board those ships, he told me, but, so far -as he knew, not one that was good. Blasphemy, drunkenness, cruelty, -debauchery--all these he became an adept in as he grew up, and besides -he knew every conceivable trick by means of which he could shirk duty -and shift it on to the shoulders of others. - -At last he reached the dignity of able seaman, but I can bear witness -that a less useful able seaman than he never darkened the door of a -shipping office. And why? Because he had devoted all his low animal -cunning to the avoidance of learning anything, lest he should be -compelled to put it into practice, at the cost of some trouble to -himself; and what he was compelled to know he purposely practised as -badly as possible, so that he should seldom be called upon to do it. -Briefly, and in order to put the finishing touches to this unattractive -picture, he was almost as perfect a specimen of unmoral animal as any -course of training for the purpose of producing such an undesirable -human being could have resulted in. - -In this manner he passed the years of his life up to the age of thirty, -drifting, like a derelict log, from ship to ship, and from shore to -shore, all round the world. He was conversant with the interiors of -most of the seaport jails in the world, for when under the influence -of drink he was a madman, only to be restrained from doing deeds of -violence by force, and utterly careless of the consequences of any -of his actions. At last, in the course of his wanderings, he came to -Calcutta, and was enticed by a shipmate up to the Sailors’ Rest in the -Radha Bazaar one Sunday evening, when he had neither money nor credit -wherewith to get drink. His shipmate was a Christian of very brief -experience, but he had the root of the matter in him, and knew that -the next best thing to preaching the Gospel one’s self was to bring -one’s friends in contact with some one who could. So it came about that -Harry Carter, finding Johnny wandering about the bazaars aimlessly and -hungrily, proposed a feed to him, and by that means got him into the -Rest, where, after his hunger was appeased, Harry succeeded in keeping -him until the evening meeting. - -At that time the meetings were conducted by two American missionaries -to whom it was a perfect delight to listen, as they told in quaint -language, loved and comprehended by sailors, the wonderful story of -the coming of Jesus to save poor fallen man. Theirs was not preaching -in a general way--every man in their presence felt that he was being -individually conversed with, felt that the story of the Cross was a -simple narration of absolute fact, no mere theory of mysterious import, -which only men and women who were specially selected and educated for -the purpose could ever hope to understand. They told the wonderful tale -in manly fashion, letting the God-given message just flow through them -on its way from their Father to their brethren. - -And Johnny sat with eyes astare and mouth agape, as the straight, -brave, certain words sank into his awakening mind. Wonder, incredulity, -shame--all struggled within him, all newly born, for it could hardly be -said with truth that he had ever realized any of these emotions before. - -At last the speaker said: “Oh, my dear boys, some of you here have -never known what it is to have a friend, yet there has been a Friend by -your side always, only begging you to be a friend of His. Some of you -have never had a home, yet this Friend has been for nearly two thousand -years preparing a home for you that is beyond all your hopes, beyond -everything that you can imagine. Some of you have never in your lives -had any real joy; this Friend has in His right hand for you pleasures -for evermore, and in His presence there is fulness of joy. He can and -will do for you exceeding abundantly above all that you ask or think. -All these wonderful privileges may be yours for the taking; you haven’t -even to ask for them--only say that you will accept them.” - -Other sweet words followed, but Johnny hardly heard them. In his -dark soul there was such a turmoil as he had never before known. -New needs, new desires were struggling for expression, and when the -preacher dismissed his congregation with the earnest invitation for -any to remain behind who felt they would like to know more about this -wonderful gift, Johnny sat still in his place with wide, starting eyes -following every movement of the preacher. - -At last that good man, passing from bench to bench, came to Johnny, and -at once saw that here was no ordinary seeker after peace. Laying one -arm tenderly across Johnny’s bowed shoulders, and with the other hand -taking one of the seaman’s gnarled and knotted hands, the missionary -said, “Brother, let Him have you. He wants you to be happy, He does -want your love. Jesus, gentle Jesus, died for you that you might be -happy with Him for all eternity.” - -With a vehemence that was startling Johnny turned and said, “Does He -know me?” - -“Yes, better than you do,” said the preacher. - -“And He’s got all these things for me? I’ll work all the rest o’ th’ -voy’ge but what I’ll have this--I don’t care what it costs me, I’ll -have it. You see if I don’t. I know now it’s what I been wantin’ all my -life.” - -“Gently, my dear brother,” said the preacher, “you can’t buy it. He -bought it with His blood to give it to you, and you can’t pay anything -for it.” - -“Why, I never had anythink give me in my life,” said Johnny. “’T ain’t -right. Everythink’s got ter be paid for, and I’m going ter pay for -this. I’m no beggar, if I am a bit of a thief when I gets the chance.” - -Now, strange as it may seem, the hardest task that man of God had on -that occasion was to convince this poor white savage that the gift of -God _was_ a gift. Gladly, joyfully, would he have sold himself into a -long slavery to have purchased what he felt he must have, yet for a -long time he would not, could not, believe that it was “without money -and without price.” At last despairingly he said: “Oh! won’t He take a -shillin’ for it? I got one in my chest, a lucky shillin’ with a hole in -it I’ve had for years. Let me go aboard an’ get it.” - -At last, with great difficulty, he was convinced that buying salvation -was impossible, but impressed with the fact that he himself was from -henceforth bought with a price, even the precious blood of the Son of -God. And while the weary evangelist was still toiling to explain, the -Lord took the matter in His own hands. And presently a joyful shout -burst from Johnny’s lips: - -“Light ho, sir! I sees it all. He’s got me, an’ He’ll never let me go. -Oh! why didn’t I know of this afore?” - -He was a saved man. Let those argue who will, dispute who can, Johnny -Wilson was a standing proof of the power of God to save the most -ignorant, the most callous of the sons of men. From that day forward, -without any more teaching, save what he could get from any one who -would read the Gospels to him, he grew in grace. He was no more trouble -aboard. His work was always done to the best of his ability, and you -could safely trust him to work by himself, for, as he said: “My Jesus -is alonger me alwus.” - -Oh, but he was a real saint! Nothing could move him. He used to be -hated by everybody--now he became the spoiled child of the fo’c’stle, -at least in intent, for really he was unspoilable; but all hands, no -matter what they thought, conspired to love Johnny. And when on the -subsequent voyage he died of a blow received in falling from aloft, -all hands gathered round his bunk, to hear from him the story that had -transformed his life. He gushed it out with his latest breath: - -“Jesus Christ, God’s Son, come down from heaven to look for me an’ make -me happy. I wasn’t worth a rope-yarn to anybody, but He come and found -me, an’ made me so glad. An’ now I’m a-goin’ ter see Him. Dear Jesus -Christ, the friend of pore devils like me.” - - - - -“MY NIGHT WATCH IS OVER” - - - - -“MY NIGHT WATCH IS OVER.” - -A SAILOR’S CONVERSION. - - -Sitting upon the capstan in the centre of the fo’c’s’le-head of a huge -four-masted ship rushing swiftly along the wide, wild stretch of the -Southern Ocean, bound to England round Cape Horn, a young able seaman -in the prime of life was engaged in the unusual mental exercise for -seamen of meditating upon God. His name does not matter; it must be -sufficient to say that he was brought up in a respectable middle-class -home in the north of England, one of a family of seven,--four boys and -three girls. He had been christened at the parish church, attended -Sunday-school and family prayers with the utmost regularity, and had -been confirmed at an early age. In spite of occasional outbreaks of -wildness, he had won prizes for exemplary conduct at Sunday-school, -and had felt, with the mistaken idea of so many, when he received them, -as if somebody were trying to bribe him to give up all the fun in life -and become a strait-laced, long-visaged humbug. But he also felt, thank -God! that in his life there were two solid facts that could never -be explained away, standing up like bastions of native rock in his -life,--the love of his mother and the kindness of his father. - -All that he heard in church and Sunday-school was readily relegated -by him to the category of things that ought to be done, even if you -couldn’t see the use of them; but as to trying to understand them, -well, that was the merest nonsense. Not that he ever put these thoughts -and feelings into words, but they were none the less real to him. - -Then, suddenly, without any previous preparation discernible by him, a -foreign element came into his life. Coming home from the village school -one afternoon (he was then thirteen years old), he met a bronzed, -weather-beaten man who inquired of him the way to a neighboring town; -and as that way for some little distance happened to be his own, they -walked together. Within ten minutes the boy had imbibed from the -wayfarer an intense desire to go a-roving. For the weather-beaten -stranger was a sailor returning home after an absence of many years; -and the plain recital of his adventures, without any attempt to enhance -their interest, fired the country boy’s blood to such an extent that -his breath came in short gasps, and he gazed at the seamed and sunburnt -face beside him as if he could see in it some reflection of the -wondrous scenes through which it had passed apparently unheeding. They -parted; but the boy, his brain all in a ferment with wonder and desire, -returned to his home as one that treads the clouds. And that night he -waylaid his father, saying stammeringly: “Dad, I want to go to sea.” - -Now the father, although a home-keeping man, had long faced the -probability of losing his nestlings as soon as they felt their wings -growing, the more since he knew well that opportunities for their -attaining any position worth considering in the small town of their -birth would almost certainly be wanting. Moreover, he had a severe -struggle to keep them in comfort on his very small though constant -earnings, and any lightening of his burden, even though in the process -his heart-strings were strained, was to be welcomed. But as each child -had been born to him he had commended it unreservedly to the care of -his Heavenly Father, whose love to him had been the pivot of his own -life ever since he was sixteen years old. And so it came about that, -after a touching scene with his mother, the boy was helped to his -desire, and by the most heroic efforts on the part of his father he -found himself, six months after giving utterance to his wish, a member -of the apprentice portion of the crew of a huge four-masted ship, bound -from Liverpool to San Francisco. - -His first month at sea was a revelation to the country-bred lad. In -place of the home hedged in by love, into which the foulnesses so -prevalent in great cities never penetrated, he found himself met at -every point by profanity and worse. In place of having all his bodily -needs cared for, all the decencies of life made easy for him, he was -left to his own ignorant devices, and all the dreadful consequences -of being his own master in his own time descended upon him without -warning. The captain was a careless, callous man, who only looked upon -the apprentices as an inefficient supplement to a scanty crew. And -while he worked them mercilessly in consequence, he found it no part -of his duty to look after the welfare of either their bodies or their -souls. - -Under this treatment the boy soon became a finished young blackguard -in thought, and so soon as the opportunity arrived to put the evil -theories he had so readily absorbed into practice, he flung himself -into all forms of evil within his reach with a recklessness and zest -that were horrible to contemplate. Finally, he ran away from his ship -in company with an older apprentice, breaking his indentures, and -cutting off definitely the last hold his home had upon him. - -A wild time of sin, suffering, and sorrow followed. Yes, sorrow; -although, in the same Spartan fashion practised by so many thousands -of wanderers like himself, he concealed it under an assumption of -utter indifference, utter godlessness. At last, when in the throes of -a prolonged debauch he was staggering along one of the lowest streets -in Callao, he was seized by a gang of predatory ruffians, beaten out -of what little sense he had left, and conveyed on board an American -ship bound thence to England. This is the process called by seamen -“Shanghai-ing.” - -It would be impossible to convey to people living sheltered lives on -shore how terrible were the physical sufferings of the poor lad now, -bruised from head to heel, shaking from illness brought on by his -excesses, yet compelled to toil in superhuman fashion under pain of -being savagely beaten again. But he felt no repentance, he only cursed -his “luck,” and dumbly endured, as seamen do. Then one night, during -the keeping of his lookout, one of his watchmates whom he had hitherto -despised as a mild, say-nothing-to-nobody sort of a duffer, came -quietly up on to the forecastle head, and, standing near him, gazed -steadfastly out upon the loneliness of the midnight ocean, for some -time saying not a word. The full moon had just emerged from a dense -black cloud, driving before her, apparently, the darkness that had -so recently reigned, and paling the lustrous stars with her glorious -radiance, while every tiny wavelet rippling the peaceful sea became -instantly edged with molten silver. And the influence of the hour, amid -all the eternal immensity of the environment, made for breathless awe, -silent involuntary worship of the unseen yet palpably present God. - -Suddenly the new-comer spoke quietly, yet with a certain force, as if -unable to hold his peace any longer. “Jemmy, lad, don’t ye feel as if -we was a-sailing inter the very presence of Almighty God--as if He -wanted t’ show men ’at won’t think, how glorious He is, an’ how great -is His peace?” - -There was no reply, but as the speaker paused to look for the effect -of his words, he saw glittering in the moon-ray two big drops stealing -down Jemmy’s sorrow-seamed young face. - -Immediately the Christian, following his Master’s example, took a quick -stride to the youth, and laying his hand upon the trembling shoulder, -said softly: “Dear boy, let ’em run. They’re a sign that your heart -ain’t got too hard yet to feel the sweet influence that God puts out to -win His wandering ones back. But if there’s anything I can do to help -you, do let me, won’t you?” - -He came nearer as he spoke, until his arm was round Jemmy’s neck. And -then he waited patiently until the broken words came: “I--I--feel so -miserable. I’ve forgotten my mother and father, my home and my God. But -p’raps I never knew Him.” - -“No, dear boy, I don’t suppose you ever did; but now is your time to -know Him. He’s been waiting for your proud heart to bend down and -own that it wants Him--can’t do without Him. Oh, Jemmy, how He loves -you! Your mother and father love you, and are heartbroken over you, -no doubt, but He, your Father God, loves you from everlasting to -everlasting, and spared not His own Son, that you might be made welcome -to His peace, that you might know how happy a child of God can be who -has found out from God Himself how much He is longed and waited for.” - -The speaker paused for breath, for his energetic outburst had so -carried him away that he was like a man who had been running a race, -and as he did so Jemmy said shyly, and in a low voice: “How did you -know that I was wishing with all my heart that in some way, somehow, I -might get my soul put right, that I was longin’ for a message from God, -without any idea how it was to come?” - -There was a happy ring in the Christian’s voice as he answered: “Me -know? I don’t know anything, except that God the Father is my Father, -that God the Son is my Saviour, who died that I might live, and that -God the Holy Ghost, whose work it is to impress these wonderful matters -on men’s hearts, is always at hand arranging the time, the messenger, -and the message. He found me as He finds you--hopeless, heart-sick, -hungry for peace and love; and as soon as He made me feel my need of -Him He had some one there to tell me the glad story.” - -Then and there Jemmy slid down to his knees, and lifting his streaming -face to heaven he murmured, “O God my Father, forgive me my sins, and -make me what I ought to be. Dear Jesus, put your own precious life into -me and drive the unclean life out. I do believe in you, my Saviour, -because you compel me to by your love. Teach me your way--I’ll make it -mine. Bless my poor father and mother at home, and let me get back and -comfort them; and bless this dear brother here who you’ve made use of -to tell me, for Christ’s sake. Amen.” - -Deep and solemn was the response from his new-found friend kneeling -beside him. As they rose from their knees Jemmy reached for his hand, -and clasping it in both of his own, said brokenly, “How real and true -all comes back to me now, what I heard when I was a little chap at home -and at Sunday-school! How can I ever thank God enough for sending you -to me? But how silly I must have been not to see it before! Oh, thank -God, thank God I see it now! God my Father waiting for me, Christ my -Saviour knocking at my heart, and the Comforter sending you into this -place, on to this fo’c’s’le-head at the right minute to give me the -right word.” - -“Eight bells” rang out clearly from the tiny bell aft, and as Jemmy -hastened to strike the big bell responsively he murmured: “Thank God my -night watch is over--the morning has come.” - -Thenceforward he and his brother in the Lord were inseparable, whenever -it was possible for them to enjoy the communion they both needed. -Their heavy tasks on board remained really the same, but they did not -feel them. They worked cheerfully as unto God, upheld by His wonderful -sustaining power, and everything around and about them seemed changed -for the better. - -So it is when, after long buffeting the gale that is blowing fair for -home, because the captain is uncertain of his position and dares not -run before it, the pilot comes on board, orders the helm to be put -up, and the good ship fleeing homeward with a fair wind seems to have -suddenly sprung into fine weather. Jesus, the Heavenly Pilot, comes on -board of a man and takes charge, bringing light for darkness, joy for -misery, and, embracing all these, the peace of God which passeth all -understanding. - -Night after night found Jemmy as we found him at the beginning of this -story, day after day saw him sturdily and more deeply digging into the -treasure of the Word, until that blessed day when with his beloved chum -at his side he burst into the old home, to receive that welcome that -only a loving mother and father can give to a son restored to them by -God’s mercy in answer to many prayers. - - - - -TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: - - - Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. - - Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK "LIGHT HO, SIR!" *** - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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