Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God."--Matt. vi. 33. After the meeting at Trondhjem, we went on board our steamer the Vega; in due course we arrived in Newcastle, and a few hours later we were once more at our seaside home on the Kircudbrightshire coast. Here we rested for a while, feeling deeply thankful for all the loving care with which we had been watched over during our three months of absence. We could not forget our dear friends on the far off Vigten Islands and their call, "Come over and help us." We longed to help them, but what of the rest? There were many attractions and what many people would consider matters of importance to attend to in the homeland, but the finger pointed us clearly to that northern land, and it might be that we were to spend some considerable time there. Then came up before me the vision of what life might be if I remained in Scotland. Is it not always so? Does not the tempter lay all these things before the Lord's servants, and in the most enticing form? He did it with me. I so well remember the exact spot and time where the conflict with the "dread fiend" took place. The Lord had freed me from the trammels of business in a most unlooked for manner, and in a way which I certainly would not have chosen for myself. I was taken out, yes, absolutely turned out from a business which I had been upwards of twenty years in building up, and this, just at a time when it had begun to be remunerative, and when the difficulties and hardships which had been incurred in making it had been surmounted. Everything was looking bright and prosperous, but the set time had come, and out A MEMORABLE DAY. 125 I must go. I did not like it, for it involved many things, and for a while I passed through a miniature...
