Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
they said, "It is a reception, and the President of the United
States has given it his sanction." And the old veteran, his eyes
flashing, stood up and said : "You know I am a church-member,
and I promised the Lord when I united with His church that
every Wednesday night I would meet Him in the prayer-meeting,
and there is nothing in the world that would make me
break my engagement." They had the reception, but they had
it on a Thursday evening. When I was out there, I asked,
"Where is the man who has the greatest influence?" and they
said, "It is not a minister of the gospel; it is Major-General
Howard."—/. Wilbur Chapman.
650. S. J. Corey writes : "I saw a little girl come out of a
house the other day, bitterly crying. Her mother had denied
her a request, and she was wailing, 'I want a doll-carriage ! I
want a doll-carriage As !' she walked down the sidewalk, her
petition grew more and more indistinct; and, as she turned and
walked beside me, it was only the half-hearted cry, 'I want—
want !' Finally, as I faced her, it had shortened into a bewildered
'I—
!'
I looked into her little, tear-stained face, and asked,
'What is it you want, my little girl?' She gazed at me blankly
for a moment, and then, rubbing her little, dirty fist against an
eye, she smiled shamefacedly, and replied, 'I—don't—know !'
How like the little one we are in our petitions to our heavenly
Father !"
651. "Coming home from the meeting, Willie said, 'Papa,
they hadn't learnt to pray very well in Bible times, had they?'
'I suppose,' said the father, 'they could pray as well then as
now.' 'No, they couldn't,' replied Willie; 'the Lord's Prayer is
only a minute long, and our minister can pray for a quarter of
an hour.'
652. The following is from "Newman Hall's Autobiography"
"21st May, 1887.—Visit to Spurgeon, and referred to the great
speech, an hour long, the week before in Exeter Hall. 'How
long did it take you to prepare it?' S. — 'I could do nothing that
morning—bothered by a caller. Only time to select three or
four anecdotes from scrapbook, which on my way I threaded
together. A deacon said afterwards, "You did well, and felt
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