Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . on amounted to nearly;^500, to which the Crystal Palace Company added ;^200, beside contributino- ^50to the Tabernacle Building Fund, as I declined to accept any fee for preachino-. It 240 c. II. spurgeons autobiography. was a service that 1 was not likely ever to forget, and one result upon my physicalframe was certainly very remarkable. I was not conscious, at the close of theservice, of any extraordinary exhaustion, yet I must have been very weary, for after Iwent to sleep
Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . on amounted to nearly;^500, to which the Crystal Palace Company added ;^200, beside contributino- ^50to the Tabernacle Building Fund, as I declined to accept any fee for preachino-. It 240 c. II. spurgeons autobiography. was a service that 1 was not likely ever to forget, and one result upon my physicalframe was certainly very remarkable. I was not conscious, at the close of theservice, of any extraordinary exhaustion, yet I must have been very weary, for after Iwent to sleep that Wednesday night, I did not wake again until the Friday throuoh the Thursday, my dear wife came at intervals to look at me, and everytime she found me sleeping peacefully, so she just let me slumber on until— Tired natures sweet restorer, balmy sleep, had done its work. I was greatly surprised, on waking, to find that it was Friday morning ; but it was the only time in my life that I had such an experience. Eternity alone will reveal the full results of the Fast-day service at the C H. SPURGEON PREACHING AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE CHAPTER LII. 9?argiun[ ??oias-3Jro_anb (Con. It is not by the power of eloquence that souls are saved. I beheve every man who preaches thegospel from his heart is eloquent, so I have used a wrong word ; I mean, however, that great oratoricalpowers are seldom made use of by God to produce great spiritual results. You have heard of the preachingof Whitefield ; but did you ever read his sermons ? If you did, you will say they were by no means re-markable productions ; there is nothing in them that I should think could have approached to oratory,it was only the mans earnestness that made him eloquent. Have you heard any preacher who has beenblessed by God to move the multitude ? He has been eloquent, for he has spoken earnestly ; but as tooratory, there has been none of it. I, for my own part, must eschew every pretension the
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