Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
in the ranks when the immediate contest is the incessant fight
with all the powers of ill. I say that is the party spirit the
apostle deplores : the spirit which enlists for a sect, but not for
the Lord; which works feverishly for a sectarian victory, and is
inclined to forget the august interests of our God.—/. H. Jowett.
784. Melancthon mourned in his day the divisions among
Protestants, and sought to bring the Protestants together by the
parable of the war between the wolves and the dogs. The
wolves were somewhat afraid, for the dogs were many and
strong, and therefore they sent out a spy to observe them. On
his return, the scout said : "It is true the dogs are many, but
there are not many mastiffs among them. There are dogs of so
many sorts one can hardly count them; and as for the worst of
them," said he, "they are little dogs, which bark loudly, but
cannot bite. However, this did not cheer me so much," said the
wolf, "as this, that, as they came marching on, I observed they
were all snapping right and left at one another, and I could see
clearly that though they all hate the wolf, yet each dog hates
every other dog with all his heart." I fear it is true still ; for
there are many professors who snap right and left at their own
brethren, when they had better save their teeth for the wolves.
If our enemies are to be put to confusion, it must be by the
united efforts of all the people of God. Unity is strength.
C. H. Spurgeon.
785. A traveller found his path through a precipitous ravine
blocked by an immense rock, which, with the greatest effort of
his strength, he could not move. He sat down helpless in
despair. Others came along the same road, and each, in his
turn, drawing together, they besought Heaven to aid them. But
no voice replied ; no angel appeared to roll away the stone. And
then, as if inspired, one asked : "May we not succeed together
where we failed alone?" Before their united strength the
barrier yielded and left the way open. Lammenais.
786. Mr. W. Alexander says : "I recollect once to have driven
upon an Irish jaunting-car with a little child about four years
of age. It began to rain, and a hood was placed over the
child's head. I heard her mutter : 'There is a pretty view !' I
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