If I were a voice, a convincing voice, I’d travel with the wind, And wherever I saw the nations torn By warfare, jealousy, or scorn, Or hatred of their kind, I’d fly, I’d fly, on the thunder crash, And into their blinded bosoms flash; And all their evil thoughts subdued, I’d teach them Christian _Brotherhood_. _C. Mackay._ CALAMITY. They prevented me in the day of my _calamity_: but the Lord was my stay.--II. Samuel, xxii. 19. Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my _calamity_ laid in the balances together!--Job, vi. 2. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these _calamities_ be overpast.--Psalm lvii. 1. He that is glad at _calamities_ shall not be unpunished.--Proverbs, xvii. 5. Strict necessity Subdues me, and _calamitous_ constraint! Lest in my hand both sin and punishment, However insupportable, be all Devolved. _Milton._ Much rather I shall choose To live the poorest in my tribe, than richest To be in that _calamitous_ prison left. _Milton._ From adverse shores in safety let her hear Foreign _calamity_, and distant war; Of which, great heav’n, let her no portion bear. _Prior._ Friends counsel quick dismission of our grief; Mistaken kindness! Our hearts heal too soon, Are they more kind than He who struck the blow? Who bids it do His errand in our hearts, And banish peace till nobler guests arrive, And bring it back, a true and endless peace? _Calamities_ are friends. _Young._ When great _calamities_ afflict the soul, Then, God of Mercy, then, we cry to Thee! Thou the physician art to make us whole; Thou art the help in our _calamity_. But when the clouds of grief be overpast, And we may bask in sunshine once again, Then praise and prayer become a weary task; Thee we forget, and so neglect to ask The aid we implored amid our grief and pain. _Calamities_ are links of that bright chain Of love divine around us ever cast, Weaning us from the world, and all things light and vain. _Egone._ CALMNESS. Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be _calm_ unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous. And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be _calm_ unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.--Jonah, i. 11, 12, 15.