A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds

ocking at the door of his hut, and at the door of his heart. It came to him as his doctor in the day of sore sickness; it came

filled him with alarm, for he had no one to advise him, no one to help him, no one to c

looking for; and I also found a Bible which, up to this time, I had found neither leisure nor inclination to look into. I took up the Bible and began to read. Having opened the book casually, the first words that occurred to me were these: "Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me." The words were very apt to my case.

. He was prepared to snatch at anything which might stand between him and a lonely death. When he called for deliverance, he meant deliverance from sickness and solitude;

any deliverance but my deliverance from the captivity I was in. But now I learned to take it in another sense. Now I looked back upon my past life with such horror, and my sins appeared so dreadful, that my soul sought nothing of God bu

edingly surprised, on going towards my boat, to see the print of a man's naked foot on the shore. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen a ghost. I examined it again and again to make sure that it was not my fancy; and then, confused with terror

me into my thoughts: "Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me." Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, I was guided and

usoe on his desolate island. 'Call upon Me in the day of tr

time, he called for deliverance from

he called for deliverance from sin; and w

savages; and the savages, so far from hurting a hair of his head, furni

but thrice. And, three times over, Crusoe called,