The Life of Alexander Stewart - Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel

Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth, when he ran away to sea, was captured by the French, and spent some ten years as a prisoner. On returning home, he took to teaching, but then came a compelling inner call to the Christian ministry, and for the remainder of his life he preached the gospel with characteristic vigour and courage.

Sir P. Malcolm Stewart, his grandson, in his Preface speaks of his -sense of pride in Alexander Stewart-s patience, endurance, and determination, in his great physical and moral courage, and his fight for freedom whether in prison or in the ministry.-

-The style of writing,- says Alexander Stewart, -which I have adopted is that of unadorned narrative,- and such a story needed no external embellishments. His early narrative is given in extenso; the