Every one says it was a
noble act; they were just ready to sink, and the boat in
another moment would have gone off without them. His
own life was in great danger, but be said he remembered
your, or rather the Saviour's, "Golden Rule," and could
not hesitate. Think of remembering that in a November
storm in the raging sea! He plunged in and dragged
first one and then another into the boat. These boys
were brothers, and it was their first voyage. They told
Joe that they had gone to sea out of opposition to their
father, who contradicted their desires in every thing, but
that now they had had quite enough of it, and should
return; but I must not tell you all their story, or my
letter will he too long. Joe, as I told you, caught cold,
and though he was kindly nursed and Sarah waited on him
beautifully, he got worse and worse. I often went to see
him, and he was very fond of my reading in the Bible
to him; but one day last week he was taken with inflammation
of the chest, and died in a few hours.
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