p. 318 | Our Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 24, 1878

Our Bible.

By Charles Haddon Spurgeon

How familiar the book is, too—I speak now as to my own feelings—as to all that concerns us! It talks about my flesh and my corruptions, and my sins, as only one that knew me could speak. It talks of my trials in the wisest way; some, I dare not tell, it knows all about. It talks about my difficulties; some would sneer at them and laugh, but this book sympathizes with them, knows my tremblings, and my fears, and my doubts, and all the storm that rages within the little world of my nature. The book has been through all my experience; somehow or other it maps it all out, and talks with me as if it were a fellow-pilgrim. It does not speak to me unpractically, and scold me, and look down upon me from an awful hight of stern perfection, as if it were an angel, and could not sympathize with fallen men; but, like the Lord whom it reveals, the book seems as if it were touched with a feeling of my infirmities, and had been tempted in all points as I am.—Spurgeon.