Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
and with himself. A kind voice suddenly saluted him. It was
from a stranger, who touched him on the shoulder and said,
very cordially: "Mr. Gough, I believe?" "Yes, sir, that's my
name." Then followed a few kind words from the benevolent
stranger, with a pressing invitation to "come to our meeting
to-morrow night, where I will introduce you to good friends,
who will help you keep a temperance pledge." The promise was
made on the spot, and faithfully kept. The pledge was taken,
and by God's help is kept to this hour. The poor bootmaker who
tapped that youth on the shoulder has gone to heaven. But the
man he saved has touched more hearts to tears than any other
living man on the globe. Methinks, when I listen to the thunders
of applause which greet John B. Gough in vast,
crowded lecturehalls,
I am only hearing the echoes of that tap on the shoulder
under the elms of Worcester. "He that winneth souls is wise."
— Cuyler.
475. I knew a miller who went from his work, his elcthes
covered with flour, to the post-office, and edged his way through
the crowd. He left his mark on every one he touched. As
Christians we should leave a mark for Christ on every one with
whom we come in contact. H. B. Gibbud.
476. "By far the hardest place to glorify God is in the home,
but here is where the truest test of a Christian is found. An
enthusiastic Christian worker once asked a little girl if she was
a Christian. The child hesitated a moment, and said : 'Will you
please ask my mother if I am?' The mother testified to the
sweet, loving, dutiful life of the child in their home."
477. The form of a little boy lay in the coffin, surrounded
by mourning friends. A mason came into the room and asked
to look at the lovely face. "You wonder that I care so much,"
he said, as the tears rolled down his cheeks, "but your boy was
a messenger of God to me. One time I was coming down by
a long ladder from a very high roof, and found your boy close
beside me when I reached the ground. He looked up in my
face with childish wonder and asked frankly, Weren't you
afraid of falling when you were up so high?' and before I had
time to answer, he said : 'Oh, I know why you were not afraid
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