He had been asked, he said, to add a few words to the regular service, and he was pleased to do so.

He called attention to the accident which had happened on their voyage, and felt to say something on the providence of God, and His watch-care over His children.

The preacher's voice was pleasant, the ministerial tone not being so pronounced as to make his speech unnatural.

Chester listened attentively, as also did Lucy who, Chester observed, was sitting well up towards the front.
"God is the source of the being of all men," said the preacher.

"He has brought us all into existence, and made us in His own likeness, and is a Father to us in fact and in feeling.