The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-03-08
Rcaarh0blc Escape Of Eminent
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deprive himself of life, by swapping
loaded pistol at his head Each time
the pistol missed fire. \ friend enter
ing his room shortly afterwards, he re-
quested him to fire it out OF the win
dow; it then went off without any diff
Guilty. Satisfied thus that the weapon
had been duly primed and loaded, the
young man sprang up, eXelaiming, |
must be reserved for something great"
and from that moment gave up the idea
of suicide which for some time previous
had been uppermost in his thoughts
That young man afterwards became
Lord Give.
Two brothers were on one occasion
walking together when a violent storm
of thunderand lightning overlook them.
One was struck dead on the spot, the
other was spared; else would the name
of the great reiormer, Martin Luther,
have been unknown to mankind. The
holy st. Augustine, having to preach at
a distant town, took with him guide,
who by some unaccountable means mis-
took the usual road and fell into a by
path. He afterwards discovered that
his enemies, having heard Of his move
ments, had placed themselves i'll the
proper road with the design of murder
ing him.
Bacon, the sculptor, when a tender
boy of five years old, fell into the pit of
a soap-boiler, and must have perished,
had not workman, just entering the
yard, observed the top of his head, and
Immediately delivered him.
When Oliver Cromwell was an infant,
monkey snatched him from his cradle,
leaped with him through Il garrett win
dow, and ran along the leads Of the
house. The utmost alarm was excited
amongst the inmates, and various were
the devices used to rescue the child from
the guardianship of his newly-found
protector. All We're unayailing; his
would-be rescuers had lost courage, and
were in despair of ever seeing the baby
alive again when the monkey quickly
retraced it's steps and deposited its bur-
den safely on the bed. On subsequent
occasion the waters had well nigh
quenched his Unsuitable ambition. He
fell into a deep pond, from drowning in
which a clergyman named johnson was
the sole instrument of his rescue.
At the seige of Leicester, young sol
dier, about seventeen years Of age, was
drawn out for sentry duty. One of his
comrades was very anxious to take his
place. No objection was made, and this
man went. lie was shot dead while on
guard. The young man first drawn af-
terward became the author of the Pill
grim's Progress
Doadridge, when born, was so weak
ly an infant it was believed to be dead.
4 nurse standing by faneied she saw
some signs of vitality. Thus the feeble
spark Of life was saved from being eX
tinguished, and an eminent and consist
ent Christian preserved to the world.
John Wesley, when a ,hild, was only
just 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 the table, with his back to the
window. On one particular evening,
without, however, being able to account
tor il ,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 window, purposely to Kill
him: it grazed the chair III which ho
sat, and made a hole in the foot of a
candlestick on the table.
Many years have now elapsed since
three subalterns might have been seen
struggling in the water, off st. Helena;
one of them, peculiarly helpless, was
| last sllccul0D1ng. ne WIS SstNcU, 10 I'VE
as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Yelling
/ ton.
The life of John Newton is but the
! history of series of marvellous deliv-
erances. As a youth he had agreed to
accompany some friends Oh board OF q
nan-of-war. He arrived 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
We're in the habit of Observing his then
undertaking punciuality. He went out
in q boat as heretofore to inspect ship,
which blew up before he reached her
Had he left the shore a few minutes
sooner he must have persisted with the
rest on board.
ONE of the most curious articles of an
exhibition, now being held in England,
is a steam engine and boiler, in minia-
ture, and described as the smallest
steam engine in the world" 1t stands
scarcely two inches in height, and is