The Life of Alexander Duff

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1830. THE TWO SHIPWRECKS. In Perils of Waters.?The Lady Holland and her Passengers ?Lieutenant H. M. Dnrand.?Madeira.?The Unfortunate Ball. ?Captain Marryat.?George Canning's Eldest Son.?Pirates.? Cape Verd Islands.?Off Dassen Island.?The First Shipwreck. ?Anticipations of the Day of Judgment.?Resignation and Prayer.?Saved at Last.?The Bible and Psalter cast up by the Sea.?Fervent Thanksgiving of All.?Lesson from the Lost Library.? Cape Town.?Letter to Dr. Chalmers.?Mr. and Mrs. Duff sail in the Moira for Calcutta.?Opposing Gales.?At the Sandheads.?Cyclone off Sangar Island.?The Second Shipwreck. ?A Night and Day of Storm.?The Missionary and his Wife thrown on the Shore of India.?A Day and Night in a Temple. ?Welcomed at Calcutta.?Adam and Lacroix.?Lord and Lady William Bentinck.?Superstition of the Natives forecasts Duff's Future. The vision of judgment seen by the child who had been feeding his fancy on the Gaelic rhapsodies of Dugald Buchanan; the divine call to the boy as he lay dreaming among the blae-berries on the streamlet's bank; the deliverance of the youth by the flare of a torch when he and his companion were falling into the sleep of death, lost amid the snowdrifts of the Grampians?these foreshadowings were not to cease until the missionary's preparation for his work was completed. He had followed the monition of all three, not blindly, but as explained by John Urquhart's death-consecrated appeal, by Dr. Haldane's apparently premature invitation, by Dr. Feme's appropriate demand that he should offer himself forCalcutta, by Dr. Inglis's approval, by the General Assembly's appointment; and, finally, by ordination at the hands of the Presbytery, amid the crowd that filled St. George's, Edinburgh, and after the inspiriting eloquence of Dr. Chalme...