My heart no lips will murmur nor complain,
When safe the anchor’s cast.
Why, there is such a flood of hope in me,
To doubting hearts this much I will reveal:
The Hand that launched my bark on life’s great sea
Is ever at the wheel.
(1325)
Guidance, Spiritual—See [Spirit, Winds of the].
GUIDANCE EVILWARD
A story is told of certain mariners who followed the direction of their compass, believing it to be infallibly right as a guide, till they arrived at an enemy’s port, where they were seized and made slaves. The secret was that the wicked captain, in order to betray the ship and to beguile them into obliquities, had hidden a large loadstone at a little distance on one side of the needle. (Text.)