Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
tive. "Do you not wish that you had?" "No, sir, for I do not
need it. What I need just now is grace to live in Milwaukee
three days and hold a convention." The Quiver.
409. "A gentleman and his little son were working together in
the garden. To the latter was assigned the work of gathering
up the loose stones and throwing them into a neighboring ditch.
Finally he cried : 'There's one that I can't lift. I tried with all
my might and couldn't lift it/ 'My son,' replied the father, 'you
did not try with all your might, for I was here as a part of
your might, and you did not ask me to help.' There are remedies
and resources with God when all human physicians and strength
fail. If we are God's children, those remedies belong to us."
410. "The superintendent of the United States Mint at San
Francisco had a friend call on him one day. The friend said;
'I am puzzled about one thing. That is, why you people don't
have more help. I should think people might come in here and
overpower you and get a lot of this gold.' He said : 'Oh, that is
all right. When I need help, all I have to do is to press this
button.' The man who is filled with the Spirit knows how to
get help, and to get it quickly."
411. There is a pathetic little story, illustrative of the sufficiency
of God's grace, told by Ian Maclaren in an old number
of Frank Leslie's: "If I dinna see," said a blind girl, and she
spoke as if this was a matter of doubt and she was making a
— concession for argument's sake "there's naebody in the glen can
hear like me. There's no a footstep of a Dromtochty man comes
to the door but that I ken his name, and there's no voice oot on
the road that I cannot tell. The birds sing sweeter to me than
to onybody else. I've lost naething ; my life has been all getting."
— Mrs. R. W. Lowe.
412. "The acts of breathing which I performed yesterday will
not keep me alive to-day; I must continue to breathe afresh
every moment, or animal life ceases. In like manner, yesterday's
grace and spiritual strength must be renewed, from moment to
moment, in order to my enjoying the consolations, and to my
working the works, of God."
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