Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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sound that can be given to the ear; more sublime than the
sublimest dream ever conceived by genius in its most gifted
hour, when the freest way was given to the shaping spirit of
imagination. This has entered into the heart of man, yet this
is of the lower still. It attains not to the things prepared by
God— it dimly shadows them. Human love is but the faint type
of that surpassing blessedness which belongs to those who love
God. F. W . Robertson.
348. What is a friend but one whom I can trust; one
who, in sorrow's hour, will mingle his tears with mine ; one
on whose support I can reckon when my back is at the wall?
— Guthrie.
349. Charles Kingsley, when asked the secret of his beautiful
life, said : "I had a friend." Gather about you good, noble
friends, by striving to be such a friend to others ; above all,
make God your friend, for truly, as James Whitcomb Riley
says, "He passeth all the rest."
Erickson.
350. The little lad paused uncertainly in the doorway.
"Mother," he said in troubled tones, "it's so far, and it's a new
road to me. I—I'm not 'zactly afraid, but—couldn't you go a
little way with me?" She caught the anxiousness of the childish
appeal, and said quietly : "Mother'll go all the way with you,
son." And so, his little brown hand in mother's, he walked the
new way unafraid. Hart.
351. In an address at a Methodist conference, J. D. Thompson
told a story of Dr. Whyte, which he hoped was true, though its
authenticity seemed somewhat doubtful.
Certain hard and unfair
things were being rumoured about Dr. Whyte. The Doctor
appeared to take no notice. Some friends called to urge him to
take decided measures to silence opponents. "Don't you know,"
said Dr. Whyte, "I must just have a little quiet dealing with
myself to see what, in my old age, I have done to give them
such an opinion about me." "But," said his friends, "they're
saying the same things about Denny." Dr. Whyte blazed forth
at once. "The scoundrels !
World.
rascals !" he cried out.
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