SAVED BY A BIBLE.
) » . The story of a soldier's reinarkabU esoape from death during the pro« - gress of the Chitral campaign hat [ been told by Captain Macfarlane, o 7 the King's own Scottish Borderers ) who haß just returned to Pindi. Thi i gallant officer, who is m hospital 3 Buffering from bad gunshot wound j m his arm, received during thi i storming of the Malakand Pass, re lates that while the Borderers wen forcing their way up under a storn of shot, a man near him was hit ii the chest and fell to the ground l He ran to his assistance, and oi B opening his belts, which were hal Q out away by the shot, discovered thi i. bullet buried m a Bible, which thi l. soldier had carried m his bosom, am l> bad thus saved his life. The mai I* had been ill m hospital at Pindi somi * time before, and one- of the nursinj sister* had given him the Bible.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 159, 29 June 1895, Page 3
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166SAVED BY A BIBLE. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 159, 29 June 1895, Page 3
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