Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
greater than the first. See the gospel algebra : Ordinary dust
minus a model equals a perfect man. Extraordinary dust and
plus a model equals a resurrection body. Mysteries about it?
Oh, yes ; that is one reason why I believe it. It would not be
much of a God who could do things only as far as I can understand.
Mysteries? Oh, yes; but no more about the resurrection
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of your body than about its present existence.
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752. "'Where shall I go?' said a dying Hindoo to a Brahmin
priest, to whom he had to give money to pay for salvation.
'Well, first of all, you will go into a holy quadruped.' 'But,' said
the dying man, 'where shall I go then?' 'Into a beautiful flower.'
He threw up his hand in an agony of solicitation : 'Where shall I
go last of all?' The priest of Brahmin's hoary superstitions could
not tell. Life and immortality had not been revealed to him. The
Bible tells us where we shall go."
753. "A Hindoo fakir, with matted hair and ash-besmeared
body, was sitting under a tree in deep meditation. His eyes fell
on the leaves of a torn book which some one had tossed away.
It was part of the New Testament. He smoothed out the crumpled
pages, and read words which brought strange comfort to
his hungry soul ; they seemed to take him by the hand and lead
him straight to the Father. Then he set out to seek for some
one who obeyed the Book. He found an Englishman who confessed
he obeyed it. The fakir, delighted, noticed that the Englishman
wore a black band on his arm, and concluded that this
was the distinctive sign of a Christian. So he put a black band
on his own arm, and when people asked him who he was, he
pointed to the band, and told them. Some time later the fakir
wandered for the first time into a church building, and listened to
a Christian preacher. At the close he announced that he. too, was
a follower of this way, and pointed to the band as a proof. They
explained that it was an English sign of the death of some loved
friend. The fakir mused for a moment ; then he answered : 'But
I read in the Book that my loved one has died, and I shall wear
it in memory of Him.' Before long, however, he grasped the
truth of the resurrection, and when he realized that his loved one
was alive for evermore, a great joy filled his heart. He took off
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