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a modern parable of the sea
by Doreen S. Woodbridge
M y h u s b a n d , Dr. Charles Wood- bridge, and I are on board the pan for some weeks of Bible minis try. We enjoyed the quiet and blessed ness of calm seas. But yesterday our tranquillity was broken by three fa miliar letters, thrown out in despair across the widest of the world’s oceans: “ S.O.S.! S.O.S.! S:0.S.!” While we were enjoying the se curity and comfort of a large ocean liner with all its facilities, a small merchant ship hundreds of miles away was battling for the life of one of its crew. The little ship had no doctor and the man was in grave need of a surgeon. From hundreds of miles to the northwest came this pitiful call for help. The effect was startling! Immedi ately, without regard for present plans and schedules, our huge ship changed direction. Where we had previously en j o y ed calm waters, now we were cutting across strong currents, pitching and rolling, to the discomfort of many. While formerly we were cruising at a moderate speed, now it was “ full speed ahead.” One man was battling for life in a wilderness of inhospitable water. We have about six hundred pas sengers on board, many traveling to points beyond Japan. Soon we were told that, because of our mercy mis sion, we would arrive later in Japan than scheduled. Six hundred passen gers and about half that number of ship’s staff were to suffer some in convenience because one man was dying on the Pacific. One could al most imagine the heart-throb of the great ship as it raced compassion ately in the direction of one suffer ing, unknown man.
Now it is more than a day since the urgent S.O.S. came. We are back on course. The ship is steady and we are sailing placidly again toward Yokohama. Our plans as passengers are back to normal but there is a sadness in the change to normalcy. We were too late to save the dying man! Somewhere in the isolation of great waters, on a flimsy merchant ship, they are burying their dead, shut up to the finality of death. When I asked a ship’s officer who would bear the cost of such an ex pensive mission, his reply was, “We never talk of the cost. It is a simple rule of the sea that if a mcm is in need, we do not count the cost.” So it is a story with a sad ending, but for this fact: a huge vessel with almost one thousand persons aboard, intent on its predetermined route and schedule, turned aside at great expense to heed the call of one dying man. Putting all of its resources into play, it responded to the high est call of all. What a heart-warm ing message in an age when life is so lightly tossed aside! But what, after all, are schedules and plans and comforts when the vast ocean that we call life is swamped with men and women fling ing out their final S.O.S. ? The great tragedy of our day is that God’s own find it inconvenient to turn aside to heed the call of men dying without Him. Is it any wonder that so many die in turbulent waters without the ministrations of the Heavenly Sur geon? The s impl e statement of the ship’s officer could well be a mission ary motto: “We never talk of the cost. It is a simple rule . . . that, if a man is in need, we do not count the cost.” THE KING'S BUSINESS
“ President Wilson” en route to Ja
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