Spurgeon's Candle Sermon.
A ktouy is goingthe rounds of Llio piipois about, how Spuigcon ' recently ' gave a sernion on candles, with illusliationb. Jt \vu? nob exactly 'recently,' for iO -was? about a dozen jcairi ago I hat ftpurg-con I i ret gave his candle boiuion. A\eryg*ood sermon it was ; and the illustrations were largely ont of the ordinary mn. lio illustrated by a box of unlimited candles, a cold and idle church. He put an unlighbed candle in a gorgeous candlestick, and a lighted one in the mouth of a beer bottle' lie showed that a candle with tin extinguisher on top ot it could not be lighted. By hiding a lighted candle under a bushel mcapuro he illustrated a Scripture parable, and showed the ugelcasncsa ct talent which ib stowed away ont of (sight, lie bhoweel the lolly of lash expenditure and fast living by lighting a candle n\, both emlo, and letting his audience see how irregular was its, light uucl how unautibfactory its existence.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 6
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167Spurgeon's Candle Sermon. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 332, 9 January 1889, Page 6
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