Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
and they knew that right there lay the secret of her popularity.
A. W. Cooper.
447. One has written : I once heard Dr. Parker deliver his
famous lecture on "Clocks and Watches." It made such an
impression upon my mind that I could almost repeat it word for
word, illustration for illustration. This was one among the
rest : "A little watch so delicately strung, dissatisfied with its
little sphere in a lady's pocket, envied 'Big Ben,' as one day it
passed, with her ladyship, over Westminster Bridge. 'I wish I
could be up there,' said the little watch so delicately strung; 'I
could then serve the multitude.' 'You shall have the opportunity,
little watch,' said the Doctor; 'come down, Big Ben, and go into
the lady's pocket.' " He dramatically described the little watch
being drawn up the tower by a silk thread. "Where are you,
little watch? I cannot see you," he finally explained; then,
pausing, in his dramatic style, he said : "Its elevation has become
its annihilation."
448. I used to think God's gifts were on shelves one above the
other, and that the taller we grow in Christian character the
more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts
are on shelves one beneath the other, and that it is not a question
of growing taller, but of stooping lower, and that we have to
go down, always down, to get His best gifts. Emma C. Fisk.
449. Earthly thrones are generally built with steps up to them
the remarkable thing about the thrones of the eternal Kingdom
is that the steps are all down to them. We must descend if we
would reign, stoop if we would rise. F. B. Meyer.
450. When the Danish missionaries in India appointed some
of their Indian converts to translate a portion of the Scriptures,
in which the privilege of Christians to become sons of God was
mentioned, one of the translators, startled at so bold a saying,
as he thought it, said : "It is too much ; let me rather render it,
'They shall be permitted to kiss His feet.' "
Whitecross.
451. Our humiliations work out our most elevated joys. The
way that a drop of rain comes to sing in the leaf that rustles
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