Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
iiim enter, sprang up, stretched out her arm in terrible frenzy,
shrieked, "Save me! Save me," and fell back—dead. Too late!
682. A gentleman standing by Niagara saw an eagle swoop
down upon a frozen lamb encased in a floating piece of ice.
The eagle stood upon it as it was "drifting 5 '
on towards the
rapids. Every now and again the eagle would proudly lift its
head into the air to look around him, as much as to say : "I am
drifting on toward danger, but I know what I am doing; I will
fly away and make good my escape before it is too late." When
he neared the Falls he stooped and spread his powerful wings
and leaped for his flight ; but, alas ! alas ! while he was feasting on
that carcass his feet had frozen to its fleece. He leaped and
shrieked and beat upon the ice with his wings until ice, frozen
lamb, and eagle went over the Falls and down into the chasm
and darkness below. That is a graphic picture of the tippler,
the sensualist, the embezzler, of any and every man who has
begun to do evil, intending to stop before he goes too far.
Selected by J. E. Denton.
683. Be not like the foolish drunkard who, staggering home
one night, saw his candle lit for him. "Two candles !" said he,
for his drunkenness made him see double; "I will blow out one,"
and as he blew it out, in a moment he was in the dark. Many
a man sees double through the drunkenness of sin : he has one
life to sow his wild oats in, and then he half expects another
in which to turn to God; so, like a fool, he blows out the only
candle that he has, and in the dark he wilr have to lie down forever.
Haste thee, traveller ; thou hast but one sun, and after
that sets, thou wilt never reach home. God help thee to make
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haste now C. H. Spurgeon.
684. Mr. J. M. Barrie, in "The Little Minister," has a character
who always intended to cut down a certain tree, but the
years slipped by and he neglected to do it.
"I grew old," he said,
looking for the axe." Here is the A B C of immediate decision
"Acquaint now thyself with him," etc. (Job 22:21).
"Behold, now is the accepted time," etc. (2 Cor. 6:2).
"Come now, let us reason together." etc. (Isa. 1: 18).
Remember the proverb : "Procrastination is the thief of time."
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