Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
cloud, and thought, "That was once, perhaps, dirty water, but
was drawn up by tjie sun. Oh for a power to draw me up !"
Jesus is that power. He can draw men and women out of their
oft-repeated sin and failure into the sunlight of His purity.
James D. Lawson.
117. Archibald Brown, at the Baptist half-yearly meeting in
1915, held in Melbourne, told of a long man, a sailor, converted
by the text, John 6 : 37, "Him that cometh to me I will
in no wise cast out." He said that over forty years ago he
preached on that text at the East London Tabernacle; there was
in his audience this sailor man, who started on a voyage the
next day. The text troubled him much. One day he thought
so much of it that he determined to turn to Jesus for salvation.
He did so. The captain didn't know whatever was the matter
with him. He said he would take his longitude and latitude
when this thing happened. Several years afterwards, Mr.
Brown, in the middle of a sermon, said, "Look at John 6 :
37."
A long man rose in the middle of the audience, and said, "Here
I am, sir!" It was the converted sailor. He died in Melbourne
shortly before this meeting was held. When dying, the sailor
said to a friend, "If ever you are within a few miles of Archibald
Brown, tell him that I died trusting in John 6 :
37."
118. "Paint Jesus Christ upon your canvas, and then hold
Him up to the people, but so hold Him up that not even your
little ringer shall be seen."
119. The little lad, reading some story, becomes enrapt in
the fortunes of his hero. . . . How shall it end? He turns over
the pages. It is all right. The hero lives and triumphs. Now
the lad breathes again, and bravely faces the course of the fight
once more. We, like the lad, have sometimes trembled for the
fortunes of our King. Then it is good to skip the pages of
time, and to look at the end. It is all right. "Alleluia, the Lord
omnipotent reigneth." Mark G. Pearce.
120. R. Louis Stevenson's story of the storm that caught a
vessel off a rocky coast, and threatened to drive it and its
passengers to destruction, is thrilling. In the midst of the terror
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