Daniel Defoe born in 1660 and died 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer.

He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations and is widely regarded as the father of modern journalism .

He was born of the puritan stock and brought up by puritan parents. As he grew up, the lure of the world with all its deceptive beauty, glamour, wealth and fame was too much for him to bear, he found himself drifting from the pure faith of his fathers.

Being overcome and obsessed by the world he plunged himself into worldly pursuit and frantically chased after the power, fame of the world with utmost speed and the world crashed him, he was imprisoned and pilloried.

Being in prison he found time for sober reflection on the world and he discovered the truth that the world is an empty, tasteless vanity whose allurement is for the eternal destruction of man and he now despised the world with it fame, power and wealth and wrote" I look upon the world as a thing most strange in which i have no desire for or expectation from and like King Solomon of old he could say " vanity upon vanity all is vanity, what profit has a man of all his labours under the sun, he then wrote his famous book " Robinson Crusoe.

Seeing all is vanity without Christ let us Like Paul the apostle see the cross of Christ as exceeding more glorious and precious than the fame, wealth and power of the world (because the narrow way of the cross is the only way to Heaven) and like Moses in the Bibe let us esteemed the reproaches of Christ greater riches than all the treasures in the world.

Christian, Z.