Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
and at the close of the meeting I made my way down to where
he was sitting, stepped up to him and said : evening. Are
you a Christian?" "Yes," he said, "I consider myself a Christian."
"Are you bringing others to Christ?" I asked. "No, sir,
I am not," replied he ; "that is not my business, it's yours. I am
called to practise law; you are called to preach." I opened my
Bible to Acts 8 : 4, and said : "Will you please read what the
word of God says about it?" He read: "They that were scattered
abroad went everywhere preaching the word." "Oh,
but those were the apostles," he objected. I said: "Will
you be kind enough to read the first verse : 'And they were
all scattered abroad . . . except the apostles.' " He had nothing
more to say; what could he say? Your great Captain's
command is: "Go out and make disciples." Are you doing it?
— Dr. Torrey.
927. Grace must not be like the proverbial Dutchman's anchor
when it came to blow very hard he had a beautiful anchor at
home. Some people's religion is of that kind. I know a man
who has great power over his temper, except when his temper
is on, and then he has no power over it. I have heard
of people who have advised generous things, and when the
generosity is needed, then the pocket is very tightly buttoned.
We need to have grace in action, grace in appreciation ; not
only to know what to be, but to be what we ought to be.
C. H. Spurgeon.
928. There is scarcely any work in which Christians
are called upon to engage greater than the effort to annihilate
the drink curse. Whilst in Australia, Mr. Tennyson Smith,
temperance lecturer, produced a piece of calico thirty-six feet
long on which were pasted newspaper cuttings of murders,
suicides, and various tragedies in Great Britain in two weeks
caused by the
drink—directly.
929. "Professing Christians are sometimes to be found working
for the wrong cause. A young man of rare talent, who had
been an earnest labourer for the cause of temperance, inherited
tendencies to drink. He had striven to banish the traffic as a
protection to himself, as well as his fellows, who, like him, were
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