Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
385. "I have had the unspeakable joy of having been born and
bred in a minister's family," said President Woodrow Wilson.
"I remember one occasion which made a very profound impression
upon me when I was a lad, in a company of gentlemen
where my father was present, and where I happened to be
unobserved. One of the gentlemen in a moment of excitement
uttered an oath, and then, his eye resting upon my father, he
said with evident sincerity: 'Dr. Wilson, I beg your pardon; I
did not notice that you were present' 'Oh/ said my father,
'you mistake, sir; it is not to me you owe the apology.' I doubt
if any other one remark ever entered quite so straight to the
quick in me as that did."
386. "An automobile racing at a speed of eighty miles an
hour must take care of itself, for no human brain or eye can
keep pace with it, yet men who know all the risks attending an
unguided machine going eighty miles an hour will calmly tell
you that a planetary system moving thousands of times as fast
needs no guidance of
God."
387. In the old castle at Edinburgh, the way to the crown
jewels leads through a very humble doorway and through a very
dingy and circuitous passage. The humble doorways of common
duties are frequently the way to the room where God keeps His
jewels.—/. H. Jowett.
388. A minister was dying. A brother minister said : "I know
in whom I have believed," etc. He replied : "No, I don't want
it put that way; I don't want even a preposition put between
me and God. 'I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him
against that day.' " —C. R. Scoville.
389. A Russian proverb says : "With God, go over every sea
—without Him, not over the threshold." One has said: "He
always wins who sides with God." When Felix of Nola was
hotly pursued by murderers, he took refuge in a cave, and
instantly over the rift of it the spiders wove their webs, and,
glancing at this, the murderers passed by. Then said Felix:
"Where God is not, a wall is but a spider's web; where God is, a
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