Lives: Wrecked

Lives: Wrecked

Sailing down the Thames one occasionally sees a green flag in tatters, inscribed with the word Wreck, floating in the breeze over a piece of a mast, or the funnel of a steamer which is just visible above the water. Alas! how many lives might thus be marked, and how needful that they should be so labeled, lest they prove ruinous to others! The debauched, the self-righteous, the spendthrift, the miserly, the apostate, the drunken, how wisely might the flag be placed over them, for they each are a Wreck!