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The Amish Voice 11
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The ship’s engines stopped, then reversed the pro-
pellers, and turned to the left very hard. This avoid-
ed a head on collision but caused the iceberg to
scrape along the right side of the ship opening a
gash about 300 feet long. The examination of the
wreck in recent years shows that the rivets popped
along the seam. Sea water then gushed into the first
five watertight compartments. Captain Smith con-
tacted the ship’s designer, Thomas Andrews, who
was on board. How long do we have?” he inquired.
“About an hour and a half,” he replied.
The
Titanic
was
able
to stay afloat with four
compartments flooded, but not five.
Not all on board were as convinced as Captain
Smith and Andrews. People hesitated getting into
lifeboats until later on when it was too late. Even
though there were only about half enough lifeboats,
the first ones were not filled due to no one wanting
to board. The lifeboats were designed to hold an
average of 68 passengers, but some were launched
with only 28 on board. As a result, less than one
third of the people were saved. Out of the 2,228 on
board, only 705 survived.
More lives could have been saved had the crew and
passengers been willing to heed warnings. The
messages came all day to the crew but were not
taken seriously. The Sunday morning message de-
livered by Captain Smith is not known. He could
have warned them about the uncertainty of life
from James 4:13.
Go to now, ye that say, Today or to morrow
we will go into such a city, and continue
there a year, and buy and sell, and get
gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be
on the morrow. For what is your life? It is
even a vapour, that appeareth for a little
time, and then vanisheth away. —James
4:13
What should the people aboard the Titanic have
been told that they were not told? It seems they
were over confident of the ability of crew and ship
to get them safely to their destination. There are so
many parallels to our journey through this earth.
Will you arrive safely in heaven? The instructions
are all there in the Bible.
For he saith, I have heard thee in a time
accepted, and in the day of salvation
have I succoured thee: behold, now is the
accepted time; behold, now is the day of
salvation. —2 Corinthians 6:2
Eli Stutzman — Ontario Canada
Phone: (519) 866-3737
—Titanic, Continued from back cover—
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