. Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary. asure into the earthenvessel merely for the vessel s own sake, but that the treasure may afterwards be poured out from it, thatothers may thereby be enriched. You have not been privileged to see, merely to make glad your eyes,and to charm your soul, you have been permitted to see in order that you may make others see, thatyou may go forth and report what the Lord has allowed you to perceive. John no sooner became theseer of Patmos than he heard a voice that said to him, Wr
. Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary. asure into the earthenvessel merely for the vessel s own sake, but that the treasure may afterwards be poured out from it, thatothers may thereby be enriched. You have not been privileged to see, merely to make glad your eyes,and to charm your soul, you have been permitted to see in order that you may make others see, thatyou may go forth and report what the Lord has allowed you to perceive. John no sooner became theseer of Patmos than he heard a voice that said to him, Write. He could not speak to others, for hewas on an island where he was exiled from his fellows, but he could write, and he did ; and, often, hewho writes, addresses a larger audience than the man who merely uses his tongue. It is a happy thingwhen the tongue is aided by the pen of a ready writer, and so gets a wider sphere, and a morepermanent influence than if it merely uttered certain sounds, and the words died away when the earhad heard them.—C. H. S., in a sermon at the Tabernacle on the word!, Write the vision. ESUMING the record of Mr. Spurgeons publications from thepoint reached in Volume II., Chapter XLVIL, the first to bementioned here is Spurgeon s Illustrated Almanack. This little bookbegan to be issued in 1857 ; the first one was entitled, The AewPark Street Almanack, and the Editor thus explained his objectand hope in preparing it :— It may appear, to some persons,degrading and unseemly for a minister to edit a penny Almanack; but I am notburdened with any notions of false dignity, and I think nothing degrading whichmay be useful. It is quite certain that, by this little Annual, I shall reach manyreaders who might not have purchased a larger volume ; and I hope, by Gods grace,some of them will be impressed with thoughts which may result in conversion, or inother cases afford consolation and edification. In his Prefatory Note, To the Reader, in the following iss
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