In the 18th Century, Selina, Countess of Huntington, invited the Duchess of Buckingham to come and hear evangelist George Whitfield preach. The Duchess wrote to the Countess of Huntington about the Gospel that Whitefield and his fellow “Methodists” preached as follows:
“It is monstrous to be told that you have a heart as sinful as the common wretches that crawl on the earth. This is highly offens...
2. The Man In The Pit
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John Pollock
A Chinese Confucian scholar, converted to Christ, told this story: “A man fell into a dark, dirty, slimy pit, and he tried to climb out of the pit and he couldn’t. Confucius came along. He saw the man in the pit and said, ‘Poor fellow, if he’d listened to me, he never would have got there,’ and he went on.
“Buddha came along. He saw the man in the pit and said, ‘Poor fellow, if he’ll come up here...
