Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-01-06
Remarkable Escape of Eminent
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The Quirer erumerates examples under
this head, which Illustrate the truth of an
6verruling Providence '''' S.'',' '..'
Some years ago young man holding q
subordinate position in the East India Com
lpany's service, twice attempted to deprive
himself Of life, by swapping loaded pistol
at his head. Each time the pistol missed
fire. A friend entering his room shortly
afterwards, he requested him to fire it out
She window; it then went of without any
difficulty. Satisfied thus that the weapon
had been duly primed and loaded, this
young man sprang up, exclaiming, ~ must
be reserved for something great" and from
tina. moment gave up the idea of suicide,
which for some time previously had been
uppermost in this thoughts. That young
man afterwards became Lord Give.
W Two friends were on one occasion walk
| ing together, when a violent Storm of thun-
der and lightning overlook them. One was
| struck dead on the spot, the other was
spared else would the name of the great
Reformcr, Martin Luther, have been un-
known to mankind. ...
The holy st. Augustine, having to preach
ut distant town took with him guide,
who, by unaccountable means, mistoOk the
usual road and fell into by-path. He
afterwards discovered that his enemies,
having heard of his movements, had placed
themselves in the proper road with designs
of numbering him. = 90
Bacon, the sculptor, when n tender boy
of five years old, tell into pit of soap
boiler, ana must have perished had not a
workman, just entering the yard, observed
the top of his head, and Immediately de-
llivered him. '...t ...I 90 o.. .
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, n
monkey snatched HIM from his cradle, leap
eel with him through garret window, and
| ran along the leads of the house. The ut
most alarm was excited amongst the in
mates, and various were the devices used to
rescue the child from the guardianship of
his newly.iound protector. All were un-
uvailing; his would be rescuers had lost
courage, and were in despair of ever seeing
the baby alive again, when the monkey
quietly retraced its steps and deposited its
burden safely on the bed. On q subse.
quent occasion the waters had well nigh
quenched his Unsuitable ambition. He fell
into deep pond, from drowning in which
q Clergyman named johnson was the sole
4 instrument of his rescue.
70 At the siege of Leicester, young soldier,
about seventeen years of age, was drawn
was very anxious to take his place. Nc
objection was made, and the man went
He was shot dead while on guard. The
young man first drawn afterwards became
the author of "Pilgrm's Progress"
Doddrige, when born, was so weakly
an infant he was believed to be dead.
some signs Of vitality. Thus the feeble
spark of life was saved from being extin.
guished, and an eminent author and consis-
tent Christian preserved to the world
John Wesley when a child, was only Just
I preserved from fire. Almost the moment
after he was rescued, the roof of the house
where he had been, fell in.
OF Philip Henry, a similar instance is re.
corded.
John Knox, the renowned Scotch Re
former, was always wont to sit at the head
of table, with his back to the window
On one particular evening, without, how
ever, being able to account for it, he would
neither himself sit in the chair, nor permit
any one else to occupy his place. That
very night bullet was shot in at the win
dow, purposely to kill him; it grazed the
chair in which lie usually sat, and made n
hole in the foot of q candlestick on the
table.
blany years have now elapsed since three
young subalterns might have been seen
struggling in the water, off st. Helena; one
of them, peculiarly helpless, was fast sue
cumbing. He was saved to live as Arthur
Wellesley, Duke of Wellington.
The life of John Newton is but the his
tory of series of marvellous dclverances
AS youth, he had agreed to accompany
some friends on board of man of.war. He
srrived too late to go; the boat in which
his friends had gone was capsized, and all
its occupants drowned.
| On another occasion, when tide-surveyor
in the Port of Liverpool, some business had
| detained him, so that he came to his boat
much later than usual. to the great surprise
of those who were in the habit of observing
his then undertaking punctualty. He wen.
out in the boat as heretofore to inspect a
ship, which blew up just before he reached
her. Had he left the shore a few minutes
sooner, he must have perished with the
| rest on board.