Can’t Hold Out | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 28, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 42.

“Can’t Hold Out”

JESSE PULLEN was a reformed and converted drunkard. One of his old drinking companions expressed a fear that he would not be able to hold out. To this Pullen said: “You know that I run a little steamer in the summer. I don’t wait until I get up enough steam to carry me across the sound before I start. It would blow the boat all to pieces. The boiler wouldn’t stand it. But when I get about twenty pounds of steam up, I sing out: ‘All right, captain! Go ahead!’ Down in the hold, I have plenty of coal; and as fast as we use up the steam, we make more; and so we go across the sound, tho we have never more than twenty or thirty pounds at any one time. Now the Lord Jesus, when He saves us, doesn’t start us off with enough grace for a lifetime. Poor human nature couldn’t stand it, I suppose. But He wipes out all our past sins with His mercy, and gives us just grace enough for one day’s duty. But, mind you, He provides plenty of fuel to make more grace, even the Bible and prayer and the Holy Spirit; and so, kept and sheltered in His arms of love, we have grace and help in time of need.” — Anon.