New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26

from being extinguished, and an emin-
emit author and consistent Christian
preserved to the world.
At the siege of leicester a young
soldier, about seventeen years of age,
was drawn out for sentinel duty. One
of his comrades was anxious to take
his place. No objection was made,
and the man went. He was shot dead
while on guard. The young man first
drawn became the author of the Pill
grim's Progress.
The holy st. Augustine, having to
preach at a distant town, took with
him guide, who by some unacoounta-
BILE means misteok the usual road and
fell into a by-path. He afterward
discovered that his enemies, having
heard Of his movements, had placed
themselves in the proper road with a
design of numbering him.
John Knox, the great Scotch reform
er, was always wont to sit at the head of
the table with his back to the window.
On one particular evening, without
being able TO account for it, he would
neither himself sit in the chair nor per-
NIT 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 in which he sat, and
made hole in the foot of a candlestick
which was on the table.
Some years ago ayoung man holding
subordinate position in the East India
Company's service. twice attempted to
deprive himself of his life by swapping
loaded pistol at his head. Each time
the pistol missed fire. A friend enter
ing the room shortly afterward, he re-
quested him to fire it out OF the window;
it then went off without any difficulty.
Satisfied that the weapon had been duly
primed and loaded, the young man
sprang up, exclaiming: Unjust be re-
served for something great" and from
that moment gave up the idea of sui
eide, which for some time previous had
been uppermost in his thoughts. That
man afterward became Lord Give.
The life of John Newton is but the
history of a marvellous deliverance. As
youth he had agreed to accompany
some friend on board man-of-war.
He arrived too late; the boat in which
his friend had gone was capsized, and
all the occupants drowned. On
another occasion, when tide surveyor
in the port of Liverpool, some bust
ness 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 undevi-
ating punctuality He went out in
the boat as heretofore to inspect
ship, which blew up before he reached
her. Had he left the shore a few
sooner he must have persisted |
with the rest on board.
When Oliver Cromwell was an in
FAINT monkey snatched him from his
cradle, leaped with him through a
garnet window, and ran along the leads
Of the house. The utmost alarm was
excited among the inmates, and vari-
BUS devices used to rescue the child
from the guardianship of the new
5ound protector. All were unavailing;
lis would-be resouers had lost ali
courage, and were in despair of ever
seeing the baby alive again, when the
monkey quietly retracted its steps,
md deposited its burden safely on the
'ed. On subsequent occasion the
waters had well nigh quenched his
nsatiable ambition. He fell into a
ieep pond, from drowning in which a
clergyman named johnson was the
ole instrument of his rescue.