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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Rocky Island, by Samuel Wilberforce This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes Author: Samuel Wilberforce Release Date: February 7, 2007 [eBook #20541] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ROCKY ISLAND*** Transcribed from the 1849 (tenth) Francis & John Rivington edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE ROCKY ISLAND, AND OTHER SIMILITUDES. BY SAMUEL WILBERFORCE, D.D. LORD BISHOP OF OXFORD. "Fed my lambs."--S. JOHN xxi. 15. TENTH EDITION LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE. 1849. {The Rocky Island: p0.jpg} PREFACE. The advertisement to a work of similar character to the present expresses the author's principle and wishes as to this little volume. It is constructed on the same plan, and, like the former, has had the test of the observations of his own children before it was given to the public. The reception of "Agathos" has shewn that many parents have felt the want which these little volumes are intended to supply, and leads the author to hope that he has in some measure been able to meet it. It is a peculiar gratification to him to be able thus to enter many a Christian household, and fulfil, in some measure, his Master's charge, "Feed my lambs." May it please God to give His blessing to this new attempt. S. W _Winchester_, _Sept._ 29, 1840. The Rocky Island. I saw in my dream a rough rocky island rising straight out of the midst of a roaring sea. In the midst of the island rose a black steep mountain; dark clouds rested gloomily upon its top; and into the midst of the clouds it cast forth ever and anon red flames, which lit them up like the thick curling smoke at the top of a furnace-chimney. Peals of loud thunder sounded constantly from these thick clouds; and now and then angry lightning shot its forked tongue, white, and red, and blue, from the midst of them, and fell upon the rocks, or the few trees which just clung to their sides, splitting them violently down, and scattering the broken and shivere
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