Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
6. When we approach a long tunnel, the lamps are lit. We
do not know why, until the tunnel is reached, that the lamps
should be lit in broad daylight. We should light our lamps, for
the tunnel of trouble is coming.—/. W . Chapman.
7. "Men think God is destroying them because He is tuning
them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord strikes
concert pitch, but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully,
that he stretches the string on a musical rack."
8. The floods washed away all the poor man had. But after
the water had subsided he saw something shining in the bank
which the waters had laid bare. It was gold. The flood had
beggared him, and made him rich. Henry Clay Trumbull.
9. "A man was talking to John Wesley, and saying that he
did not know what he could do with his perplexities. The two
were passing a meadow bounded by a stone fence, over which a
cow was looking. 'Do you know,' asked Wesley, 'why that cow
looks over that wall ?' 'No.' 'I will tell you : it is because she
cannot look through it. And that is just what you must do with
your troubles ; look over and above them/ "
10. General Garfield, when Lincoln was assassinated, swayed
the great multitudes in Washington City, when they were surging,
and crying out even for revenge ; waving his hand over that
great crowd of maddened men, he said: "Be still, men, God
still reigns." When storm-clouds lower, and difficulties rise,
God still reigns. From a Centennial Convention Address, 1909,
Pittsburgh, U. S. A.
11. It is a dark and cloudy day for you; but you remember
how, after the storm, the bow is set in the cloud for all who
will look above to the Hand that smites them. The storm has
come, and now we must look up, and wait and watch, in prayer
and faith, for the rainbow of promise and comfort. Charlesworth.
12. A minister tells about going to see a parishioner who was
in deep affliction. He found her embroidering a sofa pillow-case.
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