Review of reviews and world's work . how I didleap for joy at that moment! I know not what elsehe said ; I did not take much notice of it, I was sopossessed with that one thought. Like as when thebrazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked andwere healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things ;but when I heard this word, Look, what a charm-ing word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until Icould almost have looked my eyes away, and I will look on still in my joy now think I am bound never to preach a sermonwithout preaching to sinners. I do think that aminister who can pr
Review of reviews and world's work . how I didleap for joy at that moment! I know not what elsehe said ; I did not take much notice of it, I was sopossessed with that one thought. Like as when thebrazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked andwere healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things ;but when I heard this word, Look, what a charm-ing word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until Icould almost have looked my eyes away, and I will look on still in my joy now think I am bound never to preach a sermonwithout preaching to sinners. I do think that aminister who can preach a sermon without address-ing sinners does not know how to preach. The echo of that mans text has been audible eversince in every discourse that has e%erpreached. He has always cried, Look, look, lookto Christ. That trust, which has been the centralessence of the whole Christian faith in all its forms,constituted, after his realizing sense of the nearness-of tlie living God, one of the greatest sources of MR. SPURGEON IN THE PULPIT SOME THIRTY YEARS AGO. eminent englishmen. i7r THE NEARNESS OF THE LmNG GOD. It was his belief in the supernat-ural, the divine element minglingconstantly with the temporal affairsof men, that gave him his real holdwhen he spoke upon the mysteries ofthe next world. In spite of all thathas been written against miraclesand against all belief in miracles,the most of mankind down to thepresent day are more moved by a mir-acle than anything else. That whichappears to them; that which liftsthemselves out of themselves; thatwhich bows their judgment to thedust and compels them to feel thatthey stand in the presence of an un-seen law and law-giver—-is the super-natural. The man who works mir-acles is the man who has the ear ofthe multitude. The man who worksmiracles is the man who has powerwith God and prevails ; he, apparentlywithout any fulcrum, except in theinvisible, is neveitheless able to liftwith the lever of praye
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