Caleb Stukely Volume 2 (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. 1845 Excerpt: ...him with every incident in my career. I concealed nothing. My errors and my guilt I revealed to him as freely as the remembrance of them occurred to my own mind. I conducted him through my various fortunes, my temptations, and my trials; and told him how at last I had been checked by his admonishment, stung and startled by his denunciations. Well he repaid me for the confidence which I reposed in him. He vouchsafed me his sympathy, and assured me of his friendship. He listened to my history with attention, and the eye of the Christian was more than once during the recital dimmed with involuntary tears. He was anxious to convince me that he indulged no idle curiosity, nor for his own gratification jagged the wounds which had been reopened by my sickening narrative. Never had I met so simple-hearted and so pious a man, alive to the dignity and importance of his calling, and asserting his title without flinching, and without regard to the opinions and actions of others. He pointed out to me, without reserve, the true source of consolation--the only rock upon which I could build with safety, and endure the buffeting of winds and waters, and not be overcome. "You have indeed," said he, "been wonderfully preserved. To me you owe nothing--to Him, whose humblest instrument I am, you are incalculably indebted. Let me teach you how best you may discharge that debt, and let me see you pay it willingly. I shall be well rewarded then for the little help I can afford you." He gave me, for perusal, books of a serious but exalted character--books that urged the afflicted on to their true rest, and gave them hope and confidence on their journey. I read them eagerly, and pleased my teacher with the account I gave of them, and with the enquiries which they...