Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
the tattooed words, 'Jim loves me, and I love Jim'—words which
she had tried to obliterate with nitric acid. One of the two had
proved faithless, and she, poor girl, had injured herself in the
endeavour to remove the signs which had been written in the
ardour of real affection. But God's love never changes. He
loves with 'an everlasting love.'
552. "From old crusading-times comes this story. A certain
king, on his way back from the Holy Land, was captured by
enemies and cast into prison—where, none of his friends knew.
The king had a favorite minstrel, who determined to find his
master. He went throughout the country, pausing before the
door of every prison, singing the songs he had been wont to
sing in the palace of the king. He hoped thus to find the captive
monarch. Long he journeyed in vain, but at last, as he stood
before a prison window and sang, he heard a voice within, the
voice of him he sought. The old songs sung at the prison window
were heard by the captive, who was soon released. So the
messengers of Christ should go through the world singing the
song of Christ's love before every prison door."
553. "It is said that when Michael Angelo contemplated painting
his great picture of the crucifixion, he had the story read
to him from each of the Gospels while he sat blindfolded. He
listened till his spirit was imbued with the spirit of the narrative,
and then he took palette and brush and did the work which
made his name immortal. It was the sight and thought of the
cross that inspired him."
554. In one of his Birmingham sermons, J. H. Jowett says
"When I want to think of the love of God to thee and me, I
do not reject the helpful suggestion of human motherhood, and
fatherhood, and wifehood, and husbandhood, and childhood.
Nay, rather do I listen to their music all the more eagerly, and
in their love-strains I hear 'sweet snatches of the songs above,'
faint echoes of the wonderful love of God. No, the love of
our Father in heaven is not altogether unlike the love of all
good fathers on earth. It is very like and yet very unlike; so
like as to be akin, so unlike that it fills us with adoring wonder
and praise; so like, as the vast organ and the harmonium are
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