Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
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93. "The biographer of Sir W. Scott writes how he bent to
catch the last words of Sir Scott. 'Lockhart,' he said, 'I may
have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a. good man.
Be virtuous ; be religious ; be a good man, and nothing else will
give you any comfort when you come to lie here.'
94. Happiness is not the end of life : character is. This
world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg pianoplaying.
It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings,
and boards and saws, and files and rasps, and sand-papers. The
perfect instrument and music will be hereafter. H. W. Beecher.
95. What you are speaks so loudly, we cannot hear what you
say. Emerson.
96. In South Africa, in looking for diamonds, they often find
a substance that is half charcoal and half diamond. It was
intended to be a diamond, but it stopped short, and it is only
diamondiferous ; it is partly a cinder and partly a jewel. It
stopped short, and will never get into the king's crown. Don't
be content to be sprinkled on one part with diamond and the
other part with slag. W. Hetherington.
97. "My Lord," said a poor man to a member of the English
nobility, "you can do me a great service, if you will. Just let
me walk up and down Regent Street with you; everybody will
trust me after that."
98. We want more sermons in shoes, men and women going
up and down the roads of life preaching Christianity by their
imitation of Christ. Cuyler.
99. The true test of religion is in the street. It lies in the
common walks of life even more than in the worship of the
The test of our religion is not the religion itself,
sanctuary. . . .
not the sympathetic manner in which we go to church, the way
in which we read our Bibles, or any elaborate ritual we perform.
Its test is the kind of persons it makes us, the kind of life it
produces in us.— Professor Oman.
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