A Proper Test | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

A Proper Test.

The Freeman says:— Mr. Spurgeon relates an amusing anecdote in his latest magazine article. “Some great swell,” he says, “who did not like my plain way of speaking, once took the trouble to write and tell me he had met with some poor negroes who were reading my sermons with great delight, and for his part he did not wonder at it, he said, for in his wise opinion, my discourses were just such as ignorant black people would be sure to relish. No doubt he thought I should have a terrible fit of blues after that slap in the face, but instead thereof I was as jubilant as I knew how to be, and praised God with my whole heart, because even an enemy admitted that the Lord had taught me how to reach the hearts of the poor. It is very clear that what ignorant blacks can understand the intelligent whites may understand if they like; and so I gathered that my sermons were clear enough to be understood by anybody who was not so conceited as to darken his own mind with pride.”—Sel.