The Gospel and Modern Thought by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 19, 1882

The Gospel and Modern Thought

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The learned tell us that the nineteenth century requires advanced thought. I wish the nineteenth century was over. I have heard it bragged about so much that I am sick of the nineteenth century. We are told that this is too sensible a century to need or accept the same gospel as the first, second, or third centuries. Yet these were the centuries of martyrs, the centuries of heroes, the centuries that conquered all the gods of Greece and Rome, the centuries of holy glory. And all this because they were the centuries of the gospel; but now we are so enlightened that our ears ache for something fresh, and under the influence of another gospel, which is not another, our beliefs are dwindling down from Alps to ant-hills, and we ourselves from giants to pigmies. We will want a microscope soon to see Christian faith in the land, it is getting to be so small and scarce.—Spurgeon.