Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1867-07-16
REMARKABLE ESCAPES OF Emil
NENT MEN.

ampes under this head, which illustrates
the truth of an overruling Providence;
"Some years ago, young man, holding
subordinate position in the East India Com
pany's SERVICE twice attempted TO deprive
himself of life by swapping a loaded pistol
at his head. Each time the pistol missed
fire. A friend entering the room shortly |
afterward, he requested him to fire out OF
the window; it went off without any diff
Guilty. Satisfied thus that the weapon had
been duly primed and loaded, the young |
man sprang up exclaiming, 4 must be re-
served for something great and from that
moment gave up the idea of suicide, which
for some time previous was uppermost in
his thoughts. That young man afterward
became Lord Give.
"Two brothers were on one occasion
walking together, when violent storm of
thunder and lightning overlook them. One
was struck dead on the spot, the other was
spared; else would the name of the great
reformer, Martin Luther, have been un-
known to mankind.
"The holy st. Augustine having to preach
at distant town, took with him guide,
who by some 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 the de-
sign of numbering him.
"Bacon, the sculptor, when 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 deliv-
cred him.
"When Oliver Cromwell was an infant, a
monkey snatched him from his cradle, leaped
with him through garret-window, and ran
along the leads of the house. The utmost
alarm WAS excited among the inmates, and
various were the devices used to rescue the
child from the guardianship of his newly
found protector. All were unavaillng; his
would-be rescuers had lost courage, and
were in despair of ever seeing the baby alive
again, when the monkey quietly retraced
his steps and deposited his burden safely on
the bed. On subsequent occasion, the
waters had well nigh quenched his life He
fell into a deep pond, from drowning il
an which q clergyman named johnson was the
ng sole instrument of his rescue.
'P- "By the sege OF Leicester, young sol
an- dier, about seventeen years of age, wal
Gu, drawn out for sentry duty. One of his com
'nu rades was very anxious to take his place
Nv, No objection was made, and this man went
u,u He was shot dead while on guard. Th
u.u Young man first drawn afterward becam
D6 -. II us.,,fa
'Doddridge, when born, was so weakl
I'd an infant, he was believed to be dead.
rag- nurse, standing by, fancled she saw SON
hey signs of vitality. Thus the feeble spark
and life was saved from being extlnguished, an
the an eminent author and consistent Christie
the preserved to the world.
Pr "John Wesley, when a child, was on
light ius, preserved from fire. Almost the nome
for after he was rescued, the roof of the hou
where he had been fell in.
very "Of Philip Henry similar instance
recorded.
wife, "John Knox, the renowned Scotch Ref
the mer, was always wont to sit at the head
his the table, with his back to the window.
,ther one particular evening, without being al
Q to- to account for it, he would neither INNS
and sit in the chair nor permit any one else
, her occupy his place. That very night bul
tion. was shot in at the window purposely to
him; it grazed the chair in which he usua
,.,,,, sat, and made hole in the foot of cand
- /, stick on the table.
''Many years have now elapsed since th
who subalterns might have been seen struggl
80 in the waters of St. Helena; one of the
rad peculiarly helpless, was fast succumbi
a. sat He was saved to live as Arthur Wellesl
lumas Duke of Wellington.
work Ine hie ol JUN New'on 10 D.' 'Ho
mama tory of series of marvellous deliveran
would As youth, he had agreed to accomp
some friends on board a man-of-war
arrived too late to go; the boat in which
works friends had gone was capszed, and all
erence occupants drowned. on another oco"s
when tide surveyor in the port of Liverp
some business had detained him, so thai
'n ue- came to his boat much later than usual
lsnnef the great surprise of those who were in
'iSo,ns habit of observing his then undevia
Wu'on punctuaity. He then went out in the
III 'n0 as heretofore to inspect ship, which
nOf'S' up lust before he reached her. Had he
~en the shore a few minutes sooner, he l
have persisted with the rest on board"
1t was --e
Sense THE NUMBER SEvEN.-This Lumb
then frequently used in the writings OF the L
THE On the 9TH day God ended his work.
. And In the 9TH month Noah's ark toucheI