Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
escape before the time. But He who watches even over each
hair of their heads knoweth best when it is time to open the
door.
Ivan Panin.
703. "There is an aged Christian in Dublin," writes Henry
Varley, "with whom I have often spoken, who passed through
the following eventful experience : 'Some years since,' he said,
'1 was travelling on horseback in one of the country districts,
when the sudden report of a pistol-shot reached me. I was
satisfied that I had been aimed at, but nevertheless thankfully
conscious that 1 had escaped. Hastening onwards, I reached my
home in safety, and went into the house. It had been my
custom for years to carry a small Bible in the breast-pocket of
my coat. Takir.g it out on this occasion, judge my surprise at
rinding a leaden bullet imbedded in the leaves. It had penetrated
as far as the Gospel of John. Removing the buliet, and
opening the book at the spot where it rested, my eye fell upon
the words, "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those
whom thou hast given me." ' "
704. It is related that the celebrated Welsh preacher, Christmas
Evans, was once discussing 'the potato question with
his thrifty, diligent wife, and, perhaps in a playful, but
still in a characteristic, way, said to her, "Catherine, you
never mind the potatoes : your trust in Providence, and
all will be well." "I'll tell you what we'll do, Christmas."
replied Catherine, "you go and sit down on the top of Moelly
Gest, waiting for Providence, and I'll go and hoe the
potatoes; and we shall see to which of us Providence will
come first."
705. During more than fifty centuries man had fixed his gaze
on the starry sky, observing the motions of the planets, and
seeking to trace their laws, yet the law of harmony eluded the
search of learned men ; the world, so far as they knew, performed
eccentric circles, the object of which they could not
comprehend. The universe was a confused mass, a labyrinth
which baffled them. One day a man of genius said to himself,
"The worlds must be considered with reference to the sun, and
not with reference to the earth." He placed the sun as the