Mr.Agneau prayed earnestly for those who were suffering by the perils of the sea, and that those who should draw near unto them in the hour of their danger, might be filled with the love of God and of man, which would inspire them to be faithful to the duties of the occasion.
When the service was ended the students went on deck again.

The wreck could now be distinctly seen.

It was a ship of five or six hundred tons, rolling helplessly in the trough of the sea.

She was apparently water-logged, if not just ready to go down.

As the Young America approached her, her people were seen to be laboring at the pumps, and to be baling her out with buckets.