The Cross for Me by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 20, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 19.

The Cross for Me

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

THE choicest saints in different ages of the world have studied most the passion of our Lord; and although nowadays we hear from the wise men that it is sensuous to talk about the cross and the five wounds, and so forth, for my part I feel that no contemplation ever does me so much real benefit as that which brings me very near my bleeding Lord. The cross for me! The cross for me! Here is doctrine humbling, softening, melting, elevating, sanctifying. Here is truth that is of Heaven, and yet comes down to earth: love that lifts me away from earth even to the seventh heaven.—C. H. Spurgeon.