Excerpt from this article:
"It could have been an easy walk to freedom. But instead, two inmates on a work-release program chose to stay and help the detention officer supervising them when he fell unconscious..."
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The book of Acts ends with an interest (yet true!) story of the Apostle Paul being shipwreckd on and island. Here is what the Bible says:
"And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold." - Acts 28:2
Pastor Spurgeon comments on this verse:
"Here was an early Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. Among rough people there is much genuine kindness. Let not people of a gentler mold, greater education, and larger possessions come behind them in deeds of kindness. Their kindness was thoughoughly practical. We have too much 'Be ye warmed' and too little kindling of fires.There may be spiritual as well as physical cold, and for this last the kindling of fire is needed." -
Page 539, Spurgeon's Sermon Notes
Further recommended reading & listening:
The Best of The Daily Spurgeon
The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
A Defense of Calvinism - by Charles Spurgeon