Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
akin, and can express the same tune ; so unlike that, as with the
organ and the harmonium, one overwhelms the other in range
and capacity, in height and depth, in length and breadth of
musical glory. 'God loves you,' and you have heard a bit of
the tune in your mother's love, in your father's love, in the love
of your husband, in the love of your wife, in the love of your
little child. Human love may be only as a child's earliest broken
song in comparison with the 'Hallelujah' chorus, but it is akin."
555. "Hast thou observed, Doris, that thy future husband has
lame feet?" "Yes, papa," said she, "I have seen it; but then he
speaks to me so kindly and piously that I seldom pay attention
to his feet." "Well, Doris, but young women generally look at
a man's figure." "I, too, papa," was her reply; "but Wilhelm
pleases me just as he is. If he had straight feet, he would not
be Wilhelm Stilling; and how could I love him then?"
556. I look on this mother, who stands with her child on the
side of the sinking vessel, watching the last chance of a passing
boat. She seizes the opportunity, not to leap in herself, but,
lifting her boy in her arms, and printing a last fond, loving kiss
upon his lips, she drops him in, the mother herself remaining to
drown and die. Or, I look at that noble maid in old border
story, who, having caught a glimpse of the arrow that, shot by
a rival's hand, came from the bushes on the other bank, flung
herself before her lover, and received the quivering shaft in her
own true and faithful heart. I look at these things, and, seeing
love to be as strong as death, I urge you above all things to
cultivate the love of Jesus, and pass on in its divine strength
to the field of duty and the altar of sacrifice.
Guthrie.
MINISTRY OF THE CHURCH
557. In the apostolic church, God raised up those who were,
like their divine Master, to be ministers, or servants, to others.
"And he gave some to be apostles ; and some, prophets ; and
some, evangelists ; and some, pastors and teachers ; for the perfecting
of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the
building up of the body of Christ; till we all attain unto
the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
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