Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
which he breathes, sin darkens the windows of the soul. You
cannot look out, even to know the glories of the fair world from
which your soul excludes itself. There is no punishment equal
to the punishment of being base. To sink from sin to sin, from
infamy to infamy—that is the fearful retribution which is
executed in the spiritual world. F. W . Robertson.
792. The poet sings of his brave soldier friend
"The hottest engagement he ever was in.
Was the conquest of self in the battle of sin."
— Matilda Erickson.
793. Sin is a clenched fist—and a blow in the face of God.
Jos. Parker.
794. Dr. J. W. Chapman says that his old college president
came to him one day and said : "I question if New York will
ever be stirred ; I question if men will ever be aroused from their
indifference ; I question if men will ever feel their need of a
Saviour—until we get back to the old days when we preach the
exceeding evil of sin."
795. Suppose a man should come to a table and there is a
knife laid at his trencher, and it should be told him : "This is
the knife that cut the throat of your child, or your father;" if
he could now use that knife as any other knife, would not one
say, "Surely there was but little love either to the father or to
the child"? So, when there is a temptation to any sin, this is
the knife that cut the throat of Christ, that pierced His side,
that was the cause of His sufferings, that made Christ to be a
curse. Now, wilt thou not look on that as a cursed thing that
made Christ to be a curse? Oh, with what detestation would
a man or woman fling away such a knife ! And with the like
detestation it is required that a man should renounce sin : for
that, and that only, was the cause of the death of Christ.
Alphonsus ab Avendano.
796. Betty, aged six, is something of a philosopher. The other
day, as she slowly and painstakingly worked at the strip of
hemming which was her first attempt at needlework, she thought-
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