Customs, Oriental—See [Gestures and Use of the Hands in the East].
Customs, Value of—See [Experience a Hard Teacher].
Cycles in Nature—See [Invisible, The, Made Visible].
CYNIC REBUKED
The late A. T. Gordon, D.D., told this incident:
A certain infidel, a blacksmith, was in the habit when any one came into his shop of telling what some Christian brother or deacon or minister had done, and say, “That is one of their fine Christians we hear so much about!”
An old gentleman, an eminent Christian, one day went into the shop; the infidel soon began about what some Christians had done. The old deacon stood a few moments, and listened, and then quietly asked the infidel if he had read the story in the Bible about the rich man and Lazarus.
“Yes, many a time; and what of it?”
“Well, you remember about the dogs; how they came and licked the sores of Lazarus? Now,” said the deacon, “do you know, you just remind me of those dogs—content to merely lick the Christian’s sores.”
The blacksmith grew suddenly pensive, and hasn’t had much to say about failing Christians since. (Text.)