Show SAVED DY BY A SONG familiar tune the means of rescuing youth from slavery A remarkable incident Is that of a scottish youth who had learned at homo home to eing sing the old psalms that were then as household words to them in the kirk and by the fireside realdo fl when lie ie grew up ho he wan wandered dereI away from his native country was talon cap captive by the turks and made a slave in one of the barbary states dut but ho he never forgot th songs of zion although he sting them in a strange land and to heathen ears one night he was solacing himself in this manner when the attention of some sailors sallon ron on board of an english manof man odwar of war was direct ed to the familiar tune old hundred as it came floating over tho moonlit waves at once they ther ed the truth that one of their countrymen was languishing away his life as a captive quickly arming them selves they manned a boat and lost no time in effecting his release what a joy to him after eighteen ions ing years passed in slavery sla iery |