Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
beyond any words to express. Our Master reversed for us the
old bridge sign. Out from Pentecost rings this word : "Let my
followers all form in line, close ranks, and move out to a world
conquest, and keep step." That command of His will make a
winning force so great as to shorten up the world's present
calendars, and shorten up the world's pain, and lengthen out the
new life that will come to untold numbers through Jesus. S. D.
Gordon.
161. "Well, have you come to serve God?" asked a deacon
of a Christian man as he entered the porch of the house of God.
"No," he replied, "I have been serving God all the week; I come
to worship Him."
162. We need to-day an S. S. S. S.—a "Society for the
Suppression of Superfluous Societies." The church, and the
church only, will win the world for Christ. "It is the whole
business of the whole church to win the whole world for Jesus."
— F. T. Saunders.
163. Dr. Lyman Beecher, upon being asked how he did so
much in his church, answered : "Oh, I preach Sundays, and four
hundred of my church-members preach every day." That is
how he could do so much, and why his church was such a factor
for good in Boston in his day.
164. An old sea-captain was riding in the cars towards Philadelphia,
and a young man sat down beside him. He said
"Young man, where are you going?" "I am going to Philadelphia
to live," replied the young man. "Have you letters of introduction?"
asked the old captain. "Yes," said the young man, and
he pulled some of them out. "Well," said the old sea-captain,
"haven't you a church certificate?" "Oh, yes," replied the young
man ;" I didn't suppose you would want to look at that." "Yes,"
said the sea-captain, "I want to see that. As soon as you get to
Philadelphia, present that to some Christian church. I am an
old sailor, and I have been up and down the world, and it's my
rule, as soon as I get into port, to fasten my ship fore and aft
to the wharf, although it may cost a little wharfage, rather than