Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Paperback

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1 CHAPTER III. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE. " Had be not seen in the solitudes A vision of love about him fall ? Not the blinding splendour that fell on Saul, But the tenderest glory that rests on them Who walk in the New Jerusalem; Where the sun nor the moon are never known, But the Lord and His love are the light alone." ?Whittier. " The preacher does not show that it is a well, and show when and how it was dug, and by what processes the stream percolated until it reached that spot; he does not spend time in assuring you that it is trustworthy food; he exclaims to an eager if a small company, Eat abundantly, O friends; yea, drink abundantly, O beloved."?Thb Vocation Of The Preaches. 1856-1859. " BE A BEIGHT POKER"?A GIANT FOR WORK?A PURITAN BOUND IN MOROCCO? THE GIFT OF AN ONION?LAUGHED AT, BUT UNHARMED?"HE'S A GOOD SORT "?SURREY GARDENS MIS- HAP?THE TESTIMONY OF THE ROCKS. " My dear toy, be a bright poker," said Douglas J errold; advice which was thus varied by a vivacious friend of ours: "Be a curate, and not a rector; for the black poker does all the work, and its bright brother does all the shining." C. H. Spurgeon has never been a bright poker; he has always been a curate, in that he has lived to be of use. George Moore wrote thus in his diary: " Eyle and Spurgeon got on capitally. Indeed, Spurgeou gets on well with everybody. Henry Chester is quite in love with him; they have found out many things on which they agree. There is nothing like getting men of different opinions thrown together. Spurgeon is a remarkable man. He has such a memory, such good humour, and such spirits; and he is a giant for work." Mrs. Moore says, " Mr. Spurgeon interested George greatly. His wit and humour delighted him. One day, seeing what influence he had on the farm...