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CLEARNESS IN ILLUSTRATION

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 43.

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CLEARNESS IN ILLUSTRATION.

An illustration has value and charm in its axiomatic clearness. A preacher of great power, in speaking of the great difficulty God’s Spirit would have in entering a man whose whole being was blocked with sin, said, “You may hold a corked bottle under Niagara Falls, and you won’t get any water in the bottle.” “Why, anybody knows that,” said a child who overheard this illustration. Yes, and the preacher’s very power lay in his ability to put truth in such a form that anybody might understand it.