Robinson Crusoe - an amazing book

NaasPreacher (C4K) · Mar 6, 2006

I love this book. I could have chosen several selections to post, like where he gets saved or leads Friday to Christ, but was really impressed by this section where he learns to be content based on a promise from the word of God.

Before, as I walked about, either on my hunting, or for viewing the country, the anguish of my soul at my condition would break out upon me on a sudden, and my very heart would die within me, to think of the woods, the mountains, the deserts I was in; and how I was a prisoner, locked up with the eternal bars and bolts of the ocean, in an uninhabited wilderness, without redemption. In the midst of the greatest composures of my mind, this would break out upon me like a storm, and made me wring my hands, and weep like a child. Sometimes it would take me in the middle of my work, and I would immediately sit down and sigh, and look upon the ground for an hour or two together, and this was still worse to me; for if I could burst out into tears, or vent myself by words, it would go off; and the grief, having exhausted itself, would abate.

But now I began to exercise myself with new thoughts; I daily read the word of God, and applied all the comforts of it to my present state. One morning being very sad, I opened the Bible upon these words, "I will never, never leave thee, nor forsake thee!" Immediately it occurred, that these words were to me, why else should they be directed in such a manner, just at the moment when I was mourning over my condition, as one forsaken of God and man? "Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me; seeing, on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss?"

From this moment I began to conclude in my mind, that it was possible for me to be more happy in this forsaken, solitary condition, than it was probable I should have ever been in any other particular state in the world; and with this thought I was going to give thanks to God for bringing me to this place.
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After several readings I am not so sure that Crusoe is really all about a man stranded on an island.

James_Newman · Mar 6, 2006

I have never read that classic work, but I think I may find the time to do so. Thanks Roger.

NaasPreacher (C4K) · Mar 7, 2006

Anyone who wants to read make sure you get the unabridged version. Penguin Classics does an excedllent edition.

This is only a sample of the spiritual references in the book.

James_Newman · Mar 7, 2006

I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded an 1808 edition text to my Palm Pilot. I'm hooked already, read about 50 pages earlier. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12623

Lacy Evans · Mar 14, 2006

It was the first work of fiction I ever read that went against the pop "Follow-your-dreams" theme. This guy followed his "fancy" rather than his reason and it got him in a world of hurt.

Awesome book.

lacy

NaasPreacher (C4K) · Mar 15, 2006

Read his salvation experience here.

http://naaspreacher.baptistblog.org/ under the post "Robinson Crusoe"

Plain Old Bill · May 6, 2006

You can't really understand Robinson Crusoe unless you are a Christian.I have read it before and after and I tell you it is two different books.

thjplgvp · May 6, 2006

Robinson Crusoe was one of my earliest loves. Book number two was Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter. For those who saw and loved Baveheart the script could have been taken from Scottish Chiefs. The difference, Porter filled her historic novel about William the Conquerer with scripture after scripture. Third was Pilgrims Progress by Bunyan.

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