V Arrows

V Vessel of the Church. The vessel of the Church can never be wrecked; she rocks and reels in the mad tempest, but she is sound from stem to stern, and her Pilot steers her with a hand omnipotently wise. Her bow is in the wave, but see she divides the sea, and shakes off the mountainous billows as a lion shakes the dew from his mane! Fiercer storms than those of the present have beat upon her, and yet she has kept her head to the wind, and in the very teeth of hell's tremendous tempests she has ploughed her glorious way: and so she will till she reaches he: appointed haven.