Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
844. "While the storm was fiercely blowing,
While the sea was wildly flowing,
Angry wind and angry billow
Only rocked the Saviour's pillow;
Jesus slept.
"But when sudden grief was rending
Human hearts, in sorrow blending;
When He saw the sisters weeping,
Where the brother's form was sleeping,
Jesus wept."
845. What finer exposition of the text, "Weep with them
that weep," can you have than this pretty anecdote? "Mother,"'
said little Annie, "I cannot make out why poor Widow Brown
likes me to go in to see her ; she says I do comfort her so ; but,
mother, I cannot say anything to comfort her, and as soon as
she begins crying, I put my arms round her neck, and I cry, too,
and she says that that comforts her." And so it does ; that is
the very essence of the comfort, the sympathy, the fellow-feeling
that moved the little girl to weep with the weeping widow.
C. H. Spurgeon.
846. A Pittsburgh preacher said, at the Centennial Convention
of churches of Christ in 1909 : "I heard one say recently : 'You
can sing "Will there be any stars in my crown?" until you are
black in the face, and you can ring your church bells until
doomsday, but you will never save our district until you personally
touch our people, and make them believe in you first, and,
after that, in your Lord.'
847. A certain Christian thought he could do very little, if
anything, for Christ, since he was a cripple. At last some one
suggested to him that he write to other "shut-ins"— prisoners in
jails. He thought it a splendid idea, and started at once at his
new work. Into those letters he put his very best strength of
Christian manhood, ready wit, and inspiring cheer. No replies
ever came, and it was a severe test to his faithfulness to do a
work so little noticed or appreciated. One day a line came from
a jailer: "Dear Sir:—Will you use thicker paper, for your letters
drop to pieces with much reading as they pass from cell to
cell."
E. A. Lagerstrom.
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