p. 80 | Stirring Words

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 3, 1874

Stirring Words.

Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the great London preacher, is said to have uttered the following awakening sentiment in one of his recent sermons: "You ministers who have got to be fine and intellectual, clear your throats and preach Jesus Christ; pull the velvet out of your mouths, ye gentlemen who use fine words, and speak so men can understand you; and mind Christ and him crucified. Ye Methodists who are getting to be very respectable, get to be red hot as Methodists used to be; ye Independents, be like the old Puritans; and ye Baptists, who seem to be dampened with cold water, or worn out, pray the Lord to baptize you with fire, and that will be the very best thing that can happen to you. Look at your chapels, half full; your congregations, half asleep; your preacher, often reading from his book, and not preaching at all, or when preaching, preaching as though he were not awake much lower down than his neck; his heart is still asleep, and only his mouth is talking."