Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
have my ship out in the stream, floating hither and thither with
the tide." Talmage.
165. Christ has but one church. The second Adam, like the
first, is the husband only of one wife. Just as the church cannot
have two heads, so the one Head cannot have two bodies ; for,
as that body were a monster which had two heads, so the head
which had two separate bodies. Dr. Guthrie.
166. Any physician will tell you if there be fever in the
body, if the pulse be 120 instead of 70 or 80, the body will
waste and pine away. If there be the fever of ceaseless quarrels
and disputations about little crotchets in a church or congregation,
instead of growing it will decline; instead of advancing
in its majestic mission it will positively decay, until it die out, a
suicide, having turned the weapons that ought to have been
combined against the foe, against its own bosom and into its
own heart. Dr. Cumming.
167. Nearly forty years ago David Livingstone, one of the
great world-winning pioneers, was lost in the depths of equatorial
Africa. . . . Everybody was talking about the lost leader.
James Gordon Bennett, the owner of the New York Herald,
sent a telegram to one of its correspondents, Henry M. Stanley.
Bennett was in Paris, and Stanley at Gibraltar. The telegram
summoned Stanley to come to Paris at once. Stanley went,
reached Paris at midnight, knocked at the great newspaper
man's door, and asked what was wanted. "Find Livingstone,'*'
was the short, blunt reply. "How much money do you place at
my disposal?" asked Stanley. "Fifty thousand dollars, or a
larger sum. Never mind about the money; find Livingstone."
Stanley went. It took two years' time to get ready. It required
a specially planned campaign and thorough preparation. This
planning was done, and the world was thrilled when the bold
missionary was found. Our Master has sent a message to His
church. It is written down in a Book, and is being repeated by
wireless messages constantly. He says : "Find my world, and
bring it back; never mind about the expense of money and lives.
Find my world, and bring it back." And the church has the
power to
S. D. Gordon.
do it.