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his heart’s inmost thoughts to the clergymen whocalled in. He said: “I am not a professor of re-ligion, sir. I am a worldly man—a man of busi-ness—but I have been brought up religiously,have had a praying father and mother, and itseems to me as if I had some faith, for as I wasgoing down in that wreck, and felt that inde-scribable sensation of falling—(and here hedropped his hands beside the bed with such ex-pressive look and gesture)—a passage of Scrip-ture hashed into my mind, and has been runningin it ever since. These are the words: ‘"Thefoundation of the Lord standetli sure.” Theclergyman turned to the Bible , and found thetext, and was impressed with the wonderfulappropriateness of it: “The Foundation of theLord standetli sure and the Lord knoweth themthat are his.”

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