Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
hours to-morrow, then let it go without eating at all for three or
four days because you were busy, and then go back and feed it
every two hours the next day, and keep up that process : do you
think the child would grow?" "No," she said, "I think the child
would die under that treatment." "And yet that is just the way
you are treating your soul." W. R. Clark.
73. "Billy Sunday once said in a sermon : 'So many churchmembers
know nothing about the Bible. A preacher will take a
text from the Bible, and get as far from it as east is from the
west. A young preacher just out of the seminary said, "Must 1
confine myself in my preaching to the Bible?" Just like a shrimp
who would say, "Must I confine my roaming to the Atlantic
Ocean ?" Imagine a little minnow saying, "Must I confine myself
to the Atlantic Ocean?" "Must I confine myself to the Bible?"
Just as if his intellect would exhaust it in two or three sermons.' "
74. Did you ever hear that story about a young Scottish
probationer who was visiting an old lady who knew her Bible
pretty well? I suppose he thought it was his duty to leave a
text with her; so he said, before he left the room, "What a
lovely promise that is, 'Lo, I am with you alway.' " She replied,
"Hoot, mon, it's no a promise ; it's just a fact." W. Hetherington.
75. One afternoon, in the course of visitation, I called upon
an old lady, ninety-two years of age; after reading to her the
twenty-third Psalm, she said : "I know every word of that. I
cannot see to read now, for I am nearly blind, but I learnt all
those Scriptures when I was young, and new I can remember
them, and I love to dwell upon the precious promises."
76. An Irishman was asked by the priest what warrant an
ignorant man such as he was had for reading the Bible. He
answered: "Truth, but I have a search-warrant; for it says,
'Search the scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have eternal
life ; and they are they which testify of me.'
77. "A story is told of a minister who taught an old man in
his parish to read. He proved a proficient scholar. After the
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