Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
must not be a teacher of the truth; you must cut prejudice against
the grain; you must leave medical, legal, theological truth to
harder and nobler men, who are willing to take the martyr's
cross, and win the martyr's crown. F. W. Robertson.
878. Truth and error are all one to the ignorant man, so it
hath but the name of truth. You have, maybe, heard of the
covetous man that hugged himself in the many bags of gold he
had, but never opened them, or used them : when the thief took
away his gold, and left him his bags full of pebbles in the room,
he was as happy as when he had his gold, for he looked not at
the one or the other. And verily an ignorant person is in a
manner no better with truth than error on his side : both are
alike to him, day and night; all one to a blind man. Gurnall.
879. When I was very young, perhaps about sixteen years of
age, I breakfasted with Caesar Malan, of Geneva, at Dr. John
Brown's. When the Doctor told him that I was a young student
of divinity, he said to me: "Well, my young friend, see that
you hold up the lamp of truth to let the people see. Hold it up,
hold it up, and trim it well. But remember this, you must not
dash the lamp in people's faces. That would not help them to
see." How often have I remembered his words ! They have
often been of use to me. Dr. Morrison.
880. "On one occasion a boy, weak in mind, was asked, while
rubbing a brass plate on a door, what he was doing, when he
replied : 'I am rubbing out the name.' Little was the boy aware
that the more he rubbed, the brighter it shone. Satan would
fain rub out the word of God from human memory, but the
more he rubs, the brighter it shines."
881. The loss of the least truth, whether you reckon it fundamental
or not, is of dangerous consequence ; the loss of the
least divine truth is as the loss of a diamond out of a ring, or
of a jewel out of the Mediator's crown. The gospel is like a
ladder that hath so many steps, or rounds ; every truth is like
a round of the ladder, and by these rounds we climb up to
heaven if
; you break off any round, you are in danger of falling:
and your climbing up is rendered either difficult or impossible.
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