Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 10 · 1864
Labour in Vain
Jonah 1:12-13
THESE mariners manifested most commendable humanity. They were not willing, even though it were to preserve their own lives, to cast overboard an innocent man; therefore they first used their best endeavours; and when these failed they made a solemn appeal to God, entreating him not to lay upon…