Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
request is allowed, but we will let you make yours. What is it?"
The graduate replied: "My father and mother were working in
that particular district where the Boxers are; they threatened
that, unless he would deny the Lord, they would cut him up;
they did so, and cast the body into the stream. To the mother <
they said the same. She answered: 'You may cut out my
tongue, but I will not deny my Lord.' They did so. The same
threat and treatment were meted out to the little sister." The
graduate said his request was that he should be sent to that
very district, "just to show those people there is no hatred in
my heart for them." "I am glad," said Mr. White, "to have a
gospel that will do that for a Chinaman."
581. The picture of my boyhood was that of an Atlas holding
the world on his shoulders, but the picture for boy and girl,
for man and woman, for minister and missionary to-day, is
Christ bearing the world upon His heart. The world with
the Atlas shoulder under it we know is a myth, but the world
with Christ's heart under it is the mightiest reality of the ages.
— C. A. Brown.
582. J. H. Jowett has pictured the difference between superficial
giving and giving from the heart. "Here is a man who
can spare five dollars for the foreign field. He has no hesitation
about the offering. Nay, he can even relegate the matter to a
clerk, and on the recurring days the amount is paid with the
regularity of the sunrise. It occasions him little or no thought.
He is dealing with superfluities, with the mere salvage of the
web, and the forceful riches of life remain untouched. But he
has one son, the pride of his heart, the hope of his life. One
day a strange fire is kindled in the lad's heart, and a strange
light comes into his eyes, and the lad knows himself to be called
of God to the foreign field. 'Father, I want to be a missionary.'
The light fades out of the father's sky, and the hopes of a life
tumble down like temples built in dreams. That is the experience
which shatters. That is where existence ripens into life.
The sovereign was given, and nothing with it. The lad was
given, and a life went with it, and there were blood-marks all
along the way. It is the things we cannot spare which make
our offerings
alive."
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