Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
hand. The child huddled close to the mother and cried, for fear
the bee would sting him too. "Look," said the mother, "the
sting of the bee is in the palm of my hand. He can not sting
you also." So Jesus suffered for us the sting of death.—/. R.
Miller.
717. Willis R. Hotchkiss, the missionary to Africa, tells of his
long, long search for the word "saviour," in the unwritten language
of the tribe to which he had been sent. At last he
chanced upon it in a story the headman was telling him about
a man who was attacked by a lion, and of how he was saved.
At once he used the word, applying it to Christ. "The black
man's face lighted up in the lurid blaze of the campfire, and he
said : ! I understand now ! This is what you have been
trying to tell us all these moons. Yesu died to save us from
sin and from the hands of Satan !' I have dwelt four years
practically alone in Africa," adds Mr. Hotchkiss; "I have been
thirty times stricken with the fever, three times attacked by
lions and several times by rhinoceroses, a number of times
ambushed by the natives, for fourteen months I never saw a
piece of bread, and have eaten everything from ants to rhinoceroses
; but let me say to you, I would gladly go through the
whole thing again if I could have the joy of again bringing that
word 'saviour,' and flashing it into the darkness that envelops
another tribe in central Africa."
REGENERATION
718. As applied to the great change called conversion, — the
term "regeneration" occurs only once in the Bible "the washing
of regeneration" (Tit. 3:5). But its equivalent, "born again,"
is found in John 3 : 3. (See also John 1 : 12, 13, and 1 Pet. 1 : 23.)
The word indicates a great, vital change in human experienceso
thorough and complete that nothing short of the term "regeneration"
could fully express it. Jesus, in conversation with
Nicodemus, showed its necessity in order that a man may understand
and enter into the Kingdom of God. Two of the Scriptures
quoted above should be considered together. John 3 : 5
reads : one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot
enter into the kingdom of God." Tit. 3 : 5 reads : "According to
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