Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
701. Dr. Moon, in his journal, says: "In the summer of 1852,
when the funds of my work for the blind were very low, I had
contracted a debt of twenty-two pounds. The creditor requested
payment by a certain day. We had reached the night previous
to the day on which I had promised to pay the money, but none
had come. A blind lady, living in Brighton, who had learned
to read my embossed books, awoke about four o'clock and read
the thirty-fourth Psalm, till she came to the sixth verse, 'This
poor man cried,' etc. She became suddenly impressed that I
had some pecuniary difficulties in my work. She asked the
Lord to show her if I had any such difficulty, and also whether
she should relieve me. When dressed she went to her cash-box
and took out a five-pound note, which she felt was not sufficient.
She then took out a second, a third, a fourth, and, feeling that
these would suffice, she placed them in her purse, where there
were two sovereigns. On being shown into my study she enquired
if I was in any difficulty about money matters connected with
my work for the blind. As I had determined to make no one
acquainted with the fact, besides the Lord, I asked her kindly to
excuse me saying anything. She then asked me to reach out
my hand, and, feeling for it, she placed in it her purse, saying
that I was to take the contents and put them to the use that I
thought best. I found there the exact sum of money I had to
pay away that evening. When she placed the purse in my
hand she had forgotten that the two sovereigns were there.
Without these sovereigns the amount required would not have
been complete."
702. On the place where we live chicks are kept, and it has
fallen to the writer's lot to be the one to look after them.
Every night they would be shut in securely, and early in the
morning they could be seen pecking away at the window of their
house, and for awhile there would be a running to and fro, and
a fumbling, and a peeping, and a pushing for some egress before
the appointed time. But the owner, who had shut them in lest
harm befall them from some marauder, knows best when it is
time to open the door. Thus are God's dealings with His
children. Oft indeed they are shut in, and within it does now
and then seem dark, and eagerly enough do men peck away at
where the light is seen to stream in, and gladly would they
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