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. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...heart. From that day the scoffer became one of the champions of Christ. He was never a preacher, but in the church and in every field of benevolent and godly labour none served the Lord better than he. THE SHEIK'S SON-IN-LAW. 'My name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts."--Mai. i. 11. The Author of the Gospel is alone master of all the methods for making it known. Only His infallible foreknowledge and power to arrange future events could bring out from the seeming mischance of one wandering man the conditions that should Christianize a tribe. In 1844, a few miles south of Damascus, the oldest city in the world, near the spot where almost nineteen Stories for Sunday. G 90 The Sheik's Son-in-law. hundred years ago a young persecutor of the Christians was struck from his horse by the visitation of God, a young Christian on his way to Jerusalem was seized by a gang of Arabs and carried into captivity. The surprise of his capture was surpassed by the surprise in store for him when its object was explained. The sheik's daughter, Arzalia, had seen the young man and fallen in love with him, and her father, whose law was his child's will, had vowed by force of arms to put him in her possession. A wedding-feast in the sheik's tent welcomed the prisoner bridegroom, and after his compulsory marriage he was so closely watched and guarded that it was impossible to escape. This surveillance was kept up for weeks and months, and even years. Happily, the young man had not so misimproved his time or neglected his education as to be wholly without resources under his singular turn of fortune. Born in Wales, and instructed in the pure faith of Christ by a godly mother, he had the firmness to maintain his religion, and the grace to...