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mercy, that the captain did not succumb to it, as
the rest of the crew had done.

‘Paul,’ said the captain one morning, when he
felt himself getting a little better, ‘I owe you my
life, I will try not to forget you.’

“Oh, no, no captain, poor fellow like me not
able to do you good; give God de praise,’ he
answered solemnly, looking upwards. ‘Oh, if
you did but know how God loves you, how He
takes care of you, and gives you all the good
things of life, and saves you from danger, and
wishes you to come and live with Him, and be
happy for ever and ever, you would try to love
Him and serve Him, and obey Him in all
things,’

‘T don’t think that God can care for one who
has cared so little for Him,’ answered the captain.
“I don’t mean to say that I call myself a bad man,
or that I have many great sins on my conscience,
and so, I suppose, if I died He would not shut me
out of heaven altogether.’

‘Captain,’ said Paul, fixing his eyes steadily on

_ him, ‘the debil told you dat; he a liar from the
a beginning. God says, “There is none that doeth
good,no not one,” “Thesoul that sinneth shall surely