Life-Studies; Or, How to Live. Illustrated in the Biographies of Bunyan, Tersteegen, Montgomery, Perthes, and Mrs. Winslow (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt: ...--"A farewell blessing"--Sympathies--The little dog. In a grove of tamarinds, in the island of Barbadoes, a humble tablet meets you--it is a missionary's grave; and, in a secluded spot in the neighboring island of Tobago, there lie the remains of another good confessor, who, sixteen months before, had been summoned to her heavenly home. They are the earthly resting-places of John and Mary Montgomery, the parents of our youthful wanderer. Arriving in the West Indies in 1784, they had entered buoyantly, amidst a population of slave-owners, and slave-drivers, and slaves, upon the blessed office of making known the glad tidings of the liberty which maketh free. The negroes they had found so sunk and degraded, that the message of lite was but coldly welcomed. "O that I knew but one soul in Tobago truly concerned for his salvation," the missionary had written, after being some time in the island " how should I rejoice " "By Satan more than man enthralled," the negro would not listen. At length Mary Montgomery is seized with fever. On the fifth day, the physician expresses some anxiety. "Are you going to leave me alone on this island?" says the missionary. "Indeed I should wish to remain longer with you," replies his dying wife, "knowing how much you want my assistance; but the Lord's will be done." "But if it should please Him to call you home," he says tenderly, u can you go with full confidence into His presence as a ransomed sinner?" "O yes," is the immediate rejoinder; "He indeed knows my weakness and unworthiness, but He knows also that my whole reliance is upon His death and merits, by which I, a poor sinful creature, have been redeemed; and I;im assuredly co...