Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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poison will be neutralised.' But you say : 'No, Doctor, I do
not believe it ; let everything take its course ; let every tub stand
on its own bottom ; I will have nothing to do with you, Doctor.'
Well, sir, you will die, and when the coroner's inquest is held
on your body, the verdict will be, 'Served him right.' So will
it be with you if, having heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, you
say : 'Oh ! pooh-pooh ! I am too much of a common-sense man
to have anything to do with that, and I shall not attend to it.'
Then, when you perish, the verdict given by your conscience,
which will sit upon the king's quest at last, will be a verdict of
Felo de se (he destroyed himself). So says the old Book:
'O Israel,
thou hast destroyed thyself.'
891. A party of boatmen on the Niagara River may have a
very strong opinion when they are caught by the rapids, that
it is very pleasant rowing; but neither their shouts nor their
merriment will alter the fact that the world's cataract is close
at hand. You have a strong opinion that hell is a delusion
that they are superstitious, and cruel, and ignorant who ask
you to pause, and awake, and prepare for this coming, this
continued retribution; but your opinion will not have the slightest,
the remotest, the minutest influence on the tremendous fact.
— Reynolds.
892. Once a sceptic in Dr. Bonar's church said : "Sir, I do
not believe there is a God." It was 10 p. m. and no time for
argument. I cast the burden on the Lord in prayer, and looked
so happy that he said: "Are you laughing at me?" "No; but
I was thinking if all the grasshoppers on earth were to say
there is no sun, it would not alter the matter. The Bible says,
'The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.'" "Well,
that is so," he said. I then showed him that God calls every
man who does not believe in Him a liar. The man went home
seeming much impressed ; and when I met him some months
afterwards he said : "I found out that I was a fool and a liar,
and have come to Christ." Thus the sword of the Spirit had
pierced his heart. Dr. Mackay.
893. A gentleman living in Texas was an unbeliever. One
day he was walking in his garden reading a book. He read
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