Bible Truths Illustrated by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman

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BIBLE TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED
go into company again, after you have talked half an hour
without intermission, I recommend it to you to stop awhile and
see if any other of the company has anything to say.'
215. "The vice of abusing absent ones in conversation was
so abhorred by Augustine that over the table where he dined
he had two verses inscribed, warning all those who sat with
him, that if they carped at any person absent, that board was
not for them."
216. Some men are very entertaining for a first interview,
but after that they are exhausted and run out : on a second
meeting we shall find them very flat and monotonous ; like handorgans,
we have heard all their tune.
C. Colton.
217. The story is told of the person who invited a company
of his friends that were accustomed to take the Lord's name in
vain, and contrived to have all their discourse taken down and
read to them. Now, if they could not endure to hear the words
repeated which they had spoken during a few hours, how shall
they bear to have all that they have uttered through a long
course of years brought forth as evidence against them at the
tribunal of God? Scott.
COMING (THE
SECOND)
218. The second advent is in the forefront of New Testament
themes. It is the burden of our Lord's predictions ; one of the
greatest of apostolic themes. The early church looked forward
to Christ's coming again as a great event towering above all
others.
Peter writes twice of the "revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet.
1:7, 13). Paul says: "Ye turned unto God from idols, to serve
a living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven"
(1 Thess. 1:9, 10). John writes: "And now, my little children,
abide in him, that, if he shall be manifested, we may have boldness,
and not be ashamed before him at his coming" (1 John
2:28). Again: "Behold, he cometh with the clouds: and every
eye shall see him, and they which pierced him : and all the tribes
of the earth shall mourn over him" (Rev. 1:7). Nothing is
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