Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
730. "What repentance is not may be illustrated by reference
to the negro who, on his death-bed, determined to repent and
forgive his enemies; he forgave one enemy with this proviso,
If I get well, dat nigger got to look out.' "
731. Once I went forth to look for Repentance. I sought her
day and night in the city of Mansoul. I asked many if they
knew where she dwelt, and they said they had never seen her.
I met one, grave and scholarly, who told me what she was like,
and bade me seek her earnestly; but he did not tell me where
she was to be found. Then, all sad at heart, and wearied with
my search, I went forth without 'the city walls, and climbed a
lonely hill, and up a steep and rugged way, until I came in
sight of the cross, and of Him who hung thereon. And, lo, as
I looked upon Him, there came one and touched me. Then
instantly my heart was melted, and all the great deeps of my
soul were broken up. "Ah, Repentance ! I have been looking
everywhere for you," I said. "Thou wilt always find me here,"
said Repentance ; "here, in sight of my crucified Lord. I tarry
ever at
His feet."
Mark Guy Pearse.
732. It has been said that "a personal consecration" should be
spelled "a purse-and-all consecration." And when a United
States official awhile ago received a sum of restitution money
from a man who said he had been converted, the official said:
"I believe in his conversion more by this restitution of a
hundred dollars than though he had given a thousand dollars
to charity."
733. When a wound in a soldier's foot refuses to heal, the
surgeon examines it very minutely, and manipulates every part.
Each bone is there, and in its place ; there is no apparent cause
for the inflammation, but yet the wound refuses to heal. The
surgeon probes and probes again, until his lancet comes into
contact with a hard foreign substance. "Here it is," saith he;
"a bullet is lodged here ; this must come out, or the wound will
never close." Thus may some concealed sin work long disquiet
in a seeking soul. May the Lord search us and try us, and see
if there be any evil way in us, and lead us in the way everlasting.
C. H. Spurgeon.
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