Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
two happy lovers." The parson looked next, and said : "Fie,
madam ! for shame ! The shadows you saw are the two steeples
of a cathedral." W. Hamilton.
911. Ben Jonson said : "Some
people will see more in a short
stage-coach ride than others will in a trip round the globe. We
need the seeing eye." A poet has put it thus
"Two men looked out from prison bars;
One saw mud, the other stars."
An old lady, says Tennyson Smith, was having a ride in a
train for the first time. She was afterwards asked : "What did
you see?" "See!" she replied; "I saw nothing at all but a
haystack, and that was going the wrong way."
912. It is recorded of a certain man that his powers of vision
were so extraordinary that he could distinctly see the fleet of
the Carthaginians enter the harbour of Carthage while he stood
himself at Lilybaeum, in Sicily. A man seeing across the ocean,
and able to tell of objects so far off! He could feast his vision
on what others saw not. Whether this story be true or not, it
serves as an illustration of the fact that faith now stands at its
Lilybaeum, and sees the long-tossed fleet entering safely the
desired haven, enjoying the bliss of that still distant day, as if
it was already come. Andrew A. Bonar.
913. What we need is an enlarged vision. The big task
appeals. "A Toronto (Can.) business man insisted that he
was too busy to act as director of the local Young Men's Christian
Association—one hour a month ! weeks later he was
asked to leave his business and go around the world and
inspect mission stations at his own expense. He did. When he
got back he was asked to give six months more away from his
business and tell—at his own expense—what he saw. He did.
It seems that men have time for the big things of religion. A
Montreal millionaire was shown how he could evangelise a
million men in about the time it would need to make another
million dollars. The big task appealed to him, and he is doing
it. It is these things that make Detroit sit up and listen to the
Laymen's Missionary Movement."
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