QUAINT EXPRESSIONS BY SPURGEON.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 89, 28 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

QUAINT EXPRESSIONS BY SPURGEON.

A public meeting? in connection with the Metropolitan Tabernacle Evangelists' Association was held on the 4th October in the lecture hall of the Tabernacle, % at which Mr. Spurgeon presided, and in the course of an address he said that it, had been stated that during the year some of the men had filled real pulpits. He supposed that by ''real pulpits," was meant where there was real preaching. He did abhor above all things the pulpits that were mere ahoy places. A real pulpit was a place where a man preached the real Gospel with a power sent down from heaven, and where there was real work done which should last for eternity. The young connected with this association went out as evangelists to tell put the Gospel, and this they should do in the simplest manner, avoiding the use of long words. There was a way of being simple in a sense in which he did not want to be. Someone having said that he tried to be simple was told that it was very easy, tor he was simple enough. v (Laughter). An evangelist should be lively; there was no use going to sleep' while he was preaching, or mat his hearers should. It was true that Eve was taken -out of Adam while he was sleeping, but they could not take original sin out of a man in that ■way. (Laughter.) There were some preachers who ought to have 21b of Chapman and Hall's gunpowder sewed in their trousers, to go off when they got to "secondly"— (laughter) — and there were some brethren he was afraid to ask to speak, because he never knew whether they would leave off in this world or the next. (Laughter. Evangelistß should take subjects which were in' accord with their own state of mind. If he were to get up next Sunday morning fresh and vigorous he could not preach from" My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me ?" He was sure they would find ; it a great help to diem if they'said, "I have not time to study and prepare a discourse, but I will talk according to God's, dealing with my body and soul." '