# “My Father is the captain” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2009-01-08T14:07:47-06:00
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“It is beautiful to see a child at perfect peace amid dangers which alarm all those
who are with him. I have read of a little boy who was on board a vessel buffeted
by the storm, and everyone was afraid, knowing that the ship was in grave danger.

There was not a sailor on board, certainly not a passenger, who was not alarmed.
This boy, however, was perfectly happy, and was rather amused than frightened by
the tossing of the ship. They asked him why he was so happy at such a time. ‘Well,’
he said, ‘my father is the captain. He knows how to manage.’

He did not think it possible that the ship could go down while his father was in
command. There was folly in such confidence, but there will be none in yours if 
you believe with an equally unqualified faith in your Father, Who can and will bring
safely into port every vessel that is committed to His charge. Rest in God and be
quiet from fear of evil.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Valley of the Shadow of Death,” _The Journal of Biblical
Counseling_, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000, p. 34.

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