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Contents.
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CHAPTER
I.
Shetland and its Teopi.e g
CHAPTER
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Early Home AND Early LIFl<: - - - - i8
CHAPTER
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The New Life in Christ 27
CHAPTER
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Called of God 41
CHAPTER
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First Fruits 56
CHAPTER VL
An iMroRTANT Question Dkcided - - - 65
CHAPTER VH.
Contending for tiik Faiih - - - - Si
CHAPTER VHL
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In Labors Abundani 96
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CHAPTER
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Ready to be Offered
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149 Shetland AND ITS People.
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scene of the following narrative is-
the Shetland Islands, the remote and
rocky cluster seen upon the map, at the
north of Scotland. The individual with
whom
the narrative is principally con-
cerned, borri upon one of tliose islands,
was, in many of his characteristics, not unlike
them a plain man, content with a comparatively
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humble sphere, unadorned by worldly polish, yet
sustaining through life a manly battle with adverse
circumstances, resembling that which his native
islands forever maintain against the encroaching
sea, and, like them, proving that the best qualities,
whether of things or men, in this world, are by no
means those most showy. The circumstances of
his early iife, his conversion, and of his ministry,