Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
of clothes. He congratulated her because they looked so white.
Pleased with her pastor's kind words, she invited him to take
a cup of tea. While they were sitting at tea the sky clouded
and there was a snowstorm, and, as he came out, the white
snow lay everywhere about, and he said to her : "Your washing
does not look quite so clean as it did." "Ah !" she said, "the
washing is right enough, but what can stand against God
Almighty's white?"
772. In South Africa, in looking for diamonds, they often
find a substance that is half charcoal and half diamond. It was
intended to be a diamond, but it stopped short, and it is only
diamondiferous : it is partly a cinder and partly a jewel. It
stopped short, and will never get into the king's crown. Don't
be content to be sprinkled on one part with diamond and the
other part with slag.
W .
Hetherington.
773. A fine illustration of the worth of a sanctified life has
been seen recently in a teacher in one of the Government schools
of Japan. His contract was that he was not to teach Christianity
—not to proselyte—and, so far as words were concerned, he
kept it faithfully. But all the while his life was so blameless
and beautiful that it did the work without words. As evidence
of this, forty of the students, without his knowledge, met in a
grove secretly, and signed a covenant to forsake idolatry—for
the religion of their teacher. And some of them are now preaching
the gospel in their native land.
"Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own."
774. I do not know that a better definition of holiness could
possibly be given than was once given by an unlearned, ignorant,
poor man, a candidate for the post of missionary. The
examining minister had asked him to define justification,
and he had done it to his satisfaction. Then his examiner
said: "Now, my brother, what is sanctification ?" The answer
was a memorable one ; it will be worth while to carry it
away. "Sanctification, sir, is a God-possessed soul." E. W.
Moore.
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