The Anvil

Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith’s door, and heard the anvil ring the vesper chime; then looking in, I saw upon the floor, old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

"How many anvils have you had,"  said I, "to wear and batter all these hammers so?’

"Just one," said he, and then with twinkling eye, "The anvil wears the hammers out, you know."

And so, I thought, the Anvil of God’s Word for ages skeptic blows have beat upon; Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard, the Anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone.”

—Attributed to John Clifford

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  1. In a similar account . . .

    D. James Kennedy said, “I once saw a painting of a large anvil. And around the anvil on the floor there lay scattered dozens of broken, shattered, smashed hammers. And underneath the words from the scriptures: “The word of our Lord endureth forever.” God’s anvil is an appropriate metaphor for the Word of God, which has endured the attacks of innumerable skeptics and unbelievers and yet still stands, unscathed in spite of the onslaught of the ages.

    “Hammer away, ye hostile hands, your hammers break, God’s anvil stands.”


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