Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
honor ; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom,
manliness, veracity—a brave man, a noble man—frank, generous,
true—with, it may be, many faults—whose freedom may take the
form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness
never. Young men ! if you have been deterred from religion by
its apparent feebleness and narrowness, remember—it is a manly
thing to be a Christian. F. W . Robertson.
129. A strong Christian is like an iceberg in a swelling sea.
The waves rise and fall. Ships strain and shiver, and nod on
the agitated waters. But the iceberg may be seen from afar,
receiving the breakers on its snow-white sides, casting them off
unmoved, and, where all else is rocking to and fro, standing
stable like the everlasting hills. The cause of its steadiness is
its depth. Its bulk is bedded in calm water beneath the tumult
that rages on the surface. Although, like the ships, it is floating
in the water, it receives and throws off the angry waves like
the rocks that gird the shore. Behold the condition and attitude
of Christians! They float in the same sea of life with other
men, and bear the same buffetings ; but they are not driven
hither and thither, the sport of wind and water. The wave
strikes them, breaks over them, and hisses past in foam ; but
they remain unmoved. They were not caught by surprise while
they had a slight hold of the surface. The chief part of their
being lies deep beyond the reach of these superficial commotions.
Their life, "hid with Christ in God," bears without breaking all
the strain of the storm.
Arnot.
130. It is always a terrible condemnation of a church-member
that no one should ever suspect him of being one. Theodore
Cuyler.
131. "That man must have been in the army, or in a
military school," Mr. Moody said to a friend once. "Yes,"
he said; "how do you know?" "By the way he walks."
You can tell that some people have been with Jesus by their
walk.
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132. "A ship's all right in the sea, so long as the sea is not
the ship."
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