This _second_ visit of the text brought him, Crusoe tells us, a great deal of comfort. So did the third. That _third_ memorable visit was paid eleven years later. Everybody remembers the stirring story. 'It happened one day, about noon,' Crusoe says. 'I was exceedingly surprised, on going towards my boat, to see the print of a man's naked foot on the shore. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen a ghost. I examined it again and again to make sure that it was not my fancy; and then, confused with terror, I fled, like one pursued, to my fortification, scarcely feeling the ground I trod on, looking behind me at every two or three steps, and fancying every stump to be a man.' It was on his arrival at his fortification that the text came to him the third time. 'Lying in my bed,' he says, 'filled with thoughts of my danger from the appearance of savages, my mind was greatly discomposed. Then, suddenly, these words of Scripture came into my thoughts: "_Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me._" Upon this, rising cheerfully out of my bed, I was guided and encouraged to pray earnestly to God for deliverance. It is impossible to express the comfort this gave me. In answer, I thankfully laid down the Book and was no more sad.' These, then, were the three visits that the text paid to Crusoe on his desolate island. '_Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me._' When the text came to him the _first_ time, he called for deliverance from _sickness_; and was in a few days well. When the text came to him the _second_ time, he called for deliverance from _sin_; and was led to a crucified and exalted Saviour. When the text came to him the _third_ time, he called for deliverance from _savages_; and the savages, so far from hurting a hair of his head, furnished him with his man Friday, the staunchest, truest friend he ever had. '_Call upon Me_,' said the text, not once, nor twice, but thrice. And, three times over, Crusoe called, and each time was greatly and wonderfully delivered. II