"'Why, Mr. Jonah,' she says, 'my mother told me He wanted them to feel nobody could help them but Him.'"
"Well, away He comes over the sea, walking on the water! And if they didn't think it was a ghost, Master Stanley! And they screamed out with fear, more frightened at Him than ever they had been at the storm. But He wasn't vexed with them, my dear; He says as gentle as could be, 'It is I; be not afraid.'"
"And then Peter must be off to Him; he isn't afraid of anything, isn't Peter. Up he jumps, and 'Lord' he cries, 'let me come to Thee on the water.' And the Lord says, 'Come.' And he gets on fine at first, Master Stanley; away he walks on the sea, as if he was on the pier there. But then what does he do but lose heart, and looks at the big waves, and then—down he goes."
"'You see, Mr. Jonah,' says the little lass, 'he never sank while he kept looking at Jesus.'"
"'No, my dear,' says I, 'he didn't; you're right there.'"
"'And my mother said, if we wanted to be safe we must keep looking to Jesus, Mr. Jonah,' she says."
"'Ah, my dear,' I says, 'I think I'm a deal like Peter. I made a grand start that night of the storm; but temptations are very strong, and the wind and the waves are high.'"
"'Well then, Mr. Jonah,' she says, 'you must call out Peter's prayer—"
"'LORD, SAVE ME.'"
"'And the Lord will put out His hand, and catch you, and hold you fast, and you'll be safe then, Mr. Jonah,' she says."