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singing.—Then said they among the heathen, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; wereof we are glad⚫. Turn again our captivity, O Lord.” Psalm cxxvi. The very heathen acknowledge the good things bestowed upon and done for the church, to be from God; and God’s own people acknowledged Him for the mercies granted, and humbly supplicated mercies from Him for the future. It is God who gathers the outcasts of Israel: It is He who takes away the captives of the mighty, the prey of the terrible; who contends with them that contend with us, and save our children. It is God who dispenseth and gathers again. Sometimes God, in a more immediate and extraordinary way and manner confers his blessings and mercies; sometimes in a more ordinary and mediate way; but His providence is to be acknowledged in all; not one single mercy comes to us, without a commission from that God by whom our very hairs are numbered.
Scarcely any of Mr. Willshire’s domestics who witnessed the happy meeting of myself and husband, could refrain from tears. The poor sailors who had been so fortunate as to obtain their liberty, seemed really overjoyed at the prospect of my being once more restored to the bosom of my family.—Each seemed anxious to relate to me a narrative of his sufferings and treatment which he received from the Arabs from the moment of our separation, until that of their redemption. While some appeared |
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