●   ●   ●    a simple but quite unshakable faith and devotion. Toward the end of his life he wrote her: For more than sixty years my prayer, so simple and brief, has been, God help me, God help me, God help me! With this little prayer in my thought I have conquered attacks of pirates in the China seas, the mutinies of sailors on board the ship, hard gales, hurricanes, tempests on the high seas, disasters, shipwrecks, lee shores, lack of provisions and water, and worst of all, the enmity of men.