Emphasis Preaching Journal

An old whaling captain tells of one morning when he had been sailing into strong winds and making little headway. He decided to change his course since there must be as many whales to the north as to the south. An hour later he saw four lifeboats containing the 14 survivors of a shipwreck. As he rescued them, they told him that they had been afloat for 10 days and could not have lived much longer.