Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon Compiled from His Diary, Letters and Records, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

Jfatljtt s Jfuii Dugij, antr jjoto BS ljarti Jit By Pastor Thomas Spurgeon. The text which for years has been our consolation is that wliich saith, I liave chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Happy enough is the man who is chosen of God; he may not ask a question as to when or where. Yet we could wish it were otherwise in our case, and that zi;al and fervour were not restrained and hampered by being yoked to painful infirmities of the flesh. We could do more, and we think we may add, without self-confidence, we would do more, if we were not laid prostrate at the very moment when our work requires our presence. However, unto the Lord be the arrangement of our health or disease, our life or our death ;but while we live, we will leave no stone unturned for the increase of His glorious Kingdom in the earth. Every interval of relief shall be laid out in His service. The time is short, it must therefore be spent all the more economically; the work is great, the Lord must be trusted the more simply. During the Pastor sillness, the pulpit at the Tabernacle has been five times occupied by Mr. Thomas Spurgeon, and once by Mr. Charles; and it has been a delight of no ordinary kind for both of the sick parents to hear on all hands the highly-favourable judgments of God speople as to the present usefulness, and ultimate eminence, of their sons. Godly parents should be encouraged by our experience to pray for and expect the salvation of their offspring. C. H. S., in Notes in The S-toord and the Trowel before leaving for the furlough described in this chapter. Let me describe certain Baptists in this hotel, (i) A father and son; the father, rather lame; the son, very attentive to the father; in fact, a model; father improving as to health, but nothing to boast of. T hese were, of course, the dear writer himself and Son Tom. S. S. (2) An old manservant with a grey bea
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