Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
the eye of an Anglo-Saxon and found it black, and he said
"These are different organisations : you are not so bewildered
as to think you can enlighten both these eyes with the same sun.
You must have a sun for each of them ;
you must have different
suns, you see, because the eyes are differently organised." Very
well, that is exceedingly fine in theory, but try it—try whether
the sun which God put in the heaven will not illuminate the
pale eye of the Northerner and the dark eye of the Southerner.
Arthur.
402. Once, after Mrs. L. D. Garst, missionary in Japan, had
been preaching to some women who listened with breathless
eagerness, one said : "It's the first time I ever heard it." Mrs.
Garst writes : "Did I imagine the pathos in her tone ? Was it
because the vast army, one billion strong, of those who have
never heard the name of Jesus, rose before me, that my heart
almost broke as I looked into that upturned face and heard the
words, 'It's the first time I ever heard it'? Can we realise
what a billion—one thousand million—means? Count the minutes
since the giving of the great commission, and you will find
that there will not have been a billion minutes till about 1935
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not as many minutes in all those rolling years and centuries as
there are now human beings who have not heard the name of
our Christ."
403. Luther heard, one day, a nightingale singing very sweetly
near a pond full of frogs, who, by their croaking, seemed as
though they wanted to silence the melodious bird. The Doctor
said : "Thus 'tis in the world : Jesus Christ is the nightingale,
making the gospel to be heard ; the heretics and false prophets,
the frogs, trying to prevent his being heard."
Talk."
Luther's
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404. A Hibernian sailor was once left in charge of the helm,
with directions from the captain to keep his eye on a certain
star, and steer the vessel directly towards it, which he promised
faithfully to do. The captain went below, and fell asleep. After
awhile he awoke, went on deck, and found the vessel sailing in
a course exactly opposite to that in which he had directed the
helmsman to steer. "What does all this mean, Patrick?" "Faith,
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