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Identifier: christianheralds19unse (find matches)
Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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s one had inven-tive faculty, as well as kindliness of dispo-sition. He lowered himself over the sideof the cistern, keeping a firm grip with hishands of the coping at the top. His feetwere within a few inches of the surface ofthe water, and he called to the drowningchild to clasp them. She did so and, thussupported, could keep herself from sinking.The boys shouts for help soon attractedattention, and, some men coming to his aid,he and the girl were hauled out of the cis-tern. Many a poor soul in danger of per-ishing eternally has been saved in a sim-ilar way. Some compassionate Christianhas gone down to them in their extremityand has kept them from being submerged,until permanent rescue came throughChrist. Fear not, believe only and she shall be madewhole. tLuUe 8:50.) A Rule of Travel. An American traveler, who has recentlyreturned from a business tour in Europe,says, that thanks to a device of his own,he made his way about the continentwithout misadventure, althoughhe speaks nolan-
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PRINCE BISMARCK AND LI HUNG CHANG AT FRIEDRICHSRUHE. tion, they could renew it. She returnedthe next day, bringing an old-fashionedglass bottle, bearing the firms name andthe number of the prescription. The clerkmade a search for it, and at last found itin a book which showed that the last timeit was made up was April 30, 1847, nearlyfifty years ago. He dispensed it again andthe old lady was delighted to have themedicine. We may infer that it was some-thing she kept by her for emergencies. Ifit had been medicine for frequent use, onebottle would not have lasted her for forty-nine years. Some people act so with re-ligion. In time of danger, or some direcalamity, or at the approach of death, theypray to God, but while things go wellwith them they forget him : Lord, in trouble have they visited thee: theypoured out a praver when thy chastening was uponthem. (Isa. 26: 16.) A Boy Rescuer. A little girl of Bayonne, N. J., owes herlife to the presence of mind and courage ofa village lad. The

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