Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
fixed, immovable, like a pillar. In recording the scene, he said:
"I asked who that was, so fixed, the image of despair. It was
the son of Dr. Rush, and in the dreadful hour of revenge and
pride he had killed a fellow-man in a duel. There he stood
like a pillar. Sometimes he would apparently wake up in recollection;
he would pace off the distance, and give the word,
Tire!' Then he would cry out, 'He is dead! He is dead!'
This was the power of conscience, of remorse. It was unsettled
reason, and left the man in the grasp of his crime as an eternal,
ghastly reality of his being."
194. When Professor Webster, of America, was awaiting his
trial for murder, he brought against his fellow-prisoners the
charge of insulting him through the walls of his cell, and
screaming to him, "You are a bloody man!" On examination
it was found that the charge was wholly groundless, and that
the accusatory voices were imaginary, being but the echo of a
guilty conscience.
Denton.
195. Bessus, a native of Pelonia in Greece, being one day
seen by his neighbors pulling down some birds' nests and passionately
destroying their young, was severely reproved by them
for his ill nature and cruelty to those creatures that seemed to
court his protection. He replied that their notes were to him
insufferable, as they never ceased twitting him of the murder
of his father.
Arvine.
196. "Those who have seen Holman Hunt's picture of The
Awakened Conscience' will not soon forget it. There are only
two figures—a man and a woman, sitting in a somewhat gaudily
furnished room, beside a piano. His fingers are on the instrument;
his face, which is reflected in a mirror, is handsome and
brightest part of creation is
vacant, evidently that of a man about town, who supposes the
intended to administer to his amusement.
A music-book on the floor is open at the words : 'Oft in
the Stilly Night.' That tune has struck some chord in his companion's
heart. Her face of horror says what no language could
say: 'That tune has told me of other days when I was not as now.'
The tune has done what the best rules that ever were devised
could not do. It has brought a message from a father's house."
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