The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-02-18

4 Some years ago young man hold
| ing a subordinate position in the East
India COmpany's service, twice at
tempted to deprive himself of life by
swapping loaded pistol at his head.
Each time the pistol missed fire. A
friend entering his room shortly after
wards, he requested him to fire it out
of the window; it then went off with
out any difficulty. Satisfied that the
weapon had been duly prired and
loaded, the young man sprang up, ex>
claiming: a" / must be reserved for
something great ~ and from that mo-
ment gave up the idea of suicide, which
for some time previous had been upper
most in his thoughts. That young
/ man afterwards became Lord Give.
Two brothers were on one occasion
walking together, when a 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, Mar
| tin Luther, have been unknown to
! mankind. f-t -. $50
! The holy ST. Augustine, having to
| preach at a distant town, took with
him a guide, who by some unaccOunta
| UiC LhCJliS lulotOOh tlC USUAL lOuu anu
fell into by-path. He afterwards dis
covered that his enemies, having heard
| of his movements, had placed them
selves in the proper road with design
of numbering him.
Baron, the sculptor, when tender
boy of five years old, fell into the pit Of
soap-boiler, and must have perished,
had not workman just entered and
observed the top of his head, and i'm
mediately delivered him.
When Oliver Cromwell was an in
fant, monkey snatched him from his
cradle, leaping with him through, a
garret window and ran along the leads
of the house. The utmost consterna-
ton was excited among the inmates,
and various devices were used to rescue
the child from the guardianship of the
newly-found protector. All were una
vailing; his wOuld-be rescuer had lost
all 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 subsequent occasion the waters
had well nigh quenched his insatiable
ambition. He fell into deep pond,
from drowning in which a clergyman
named johnson was the sole instru-
ment of his rescue.
At the siege of Leicester, a young
soldier, about seventeen years of age,
was drawn out for sentry duty. One |
of his comrades was anxious to take |
his place. No objection was made, |
and the man went. He was shot dead |
while Oh guard. The young man first
drawn became the author of the Pill
grim's Progress. .. ~ 900.
DOddridge when born was SO weakly
an infaht that he was believed to be
dead. A nurse standing by fancied she
sawIsOme signs of vitality. Thus the
feeble spark of life was saved from be
Ing eXtinguished and an eminent au-
thor and consistent Christian preserved
to the world.
John Wesley when q child was only
just preserved from fire. Almost the
moment he was rescued, the roof of
the house where he had been fell in.
Many years have now elapsed since
three subalterns might have been seen
struggling i'm the water of st. Helena;
one of them was succumbing. He was
saved 10 live as Arthur Wellesley,
Duke of Wellington.
The life of John Newton is but the
history of marvellous deliverance. As
a 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 an
other 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 i'm the
habit of Observing his punctuality. He
went out i'm the 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
perished with the rest ON board
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