We can confess Christ by rebuking sin in the proper spirit. In England a minister was traveling in a railway carriage with some betting men. Presently he managed to engage one in a friendly conversation. \u201cPardon me,\u201d said the minister, \u201cI mean no offense, but I presume you are a betting man.\u201d He replied that he was. \u201cHave you any children?\u201d asked our friend. \u201cYes,\u201d was the reply, \u201cI have a lad of fourteen; as bonnie a lad as you wish to see.\u201d \u201cWould you like him to follow your occupation?\u201d was the next question, and the big tears gathered in the man\u2019s eyes as he replied, \u201cI would rather bury him.\u201d At the next station the betting men all left the carriage, but before the train started again the man who had been addressed came back to the carriage and said, \u201cI would like to shake hands with you; I shall not forget what you have said. Nobody ever spoke to me as you have done.\u201d — Topical Illustrations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We can confess Christ by rebuking sin in the proper spirit. In England a minister was traveling in a railway carriage with some betting men. Presently he managed to engage one in a friendly conversation. \u201cPardon me,\u201d said the minister, \u201cI mean no offense, but I presume you are a betting man.\u201d He replied that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[435,434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}