RICHES OF THE WORD
Illustration★★★★There is a beautiful Eastern story of a child walking beside the sea, who saw a bright spangle lying in the sand. She stooped down and picked it up, and found that it was attached to a fine thread of gold. As she drew this out of the sand there were other bright spangles on it. She drew up the gold thread and wound it about her neck and around her head and her arms and her body, until from head to foot she was covered with the bright threads of gold and sparkled N The Art of Sermon Illustration with the brilliance of the silver spangles.
So it is when we lift out of God’s Word an ornament of beauty to put into our life, we find that other fragments of loveli- ness all bound together on the golden chain of love are attached to the one we have taken up (Ps. cxix. 14).
DR. J. R. MILler.
The point
An Eastern parable: a child finds one bright spangle on the beach, discovers it attached to a thread of gold. Drawing it out reveals more spangles, until she is adorned head to foot. So lifting one ornament from God's Word reveals others connected by love's golden chain.