Sunlight and shadow; . you would like? Would you like alittle canary in a cage to hear him sing in the morn-ing? Nurse, see that he has a canary to-morrowmorning. Good-bye, my dear; you will see the Sav-iour perhaps before I shall. I had seen Mr. Spurgeon holding by his powersixty-five hundred persons in a breathless interest; Iknew him as a great man universally esteemed andbeloved; but as he sat by the bedside of a dying pau-per child, whom his beneficence had rescued, he wasto me a greater and grander man than when swayingthe mighty multitude at his will. I need not describe Mr. Spurgeons p
Sunlight and shadow; . you would like? Would you like alittle canary in a cage to hear him sing in the morn-ing? Nurse, see that he has a canary to-morrowmorning. Good-bye, my dear; you will see the Sav-iour perhaps before I shall. I had seen Mr. Spurgeon holding by his powersixty-five hundred persons in a breathless interest; Iknew him as a great man universally esteemed andbeloved; but as he sat by the bedside of a dying pau-per child, whom his beneficence had rescued, he wasto me a greater and grander man than when swayingthe mighty multitude at his will. I need not describe Mr. Spurgeons preaching; veryfew Americans visit London without hearing much has been written and published in the UnitedStates of him and his sermons that the people of thiscountry are familiar with him as one of our own peo-ple. I am most impressed with the simplicity, free-dom, fearlessness, earnestness, and naturalness of hispreaching. He has more heart than eloquence, andillustrates the truth of his own words eloquence of. WORLDLY WISDOM. 411 the most lofty kind is mere sound unless there be lovehi the speakers heart to give weight to his words —better to have a loving heart than to speak twentylanguages. He has a powerful, rich, and melodious voice underperfect control. Twelve thousand people have heardhim distinctly in the open air, and twenty thousand inthe Crystal Palace. He does not aim to be a greatpreacher, but is a man of wonderful attraction andmarvellous power. The first time I heard him he preached from thepassage, Who forgiveth all thine iniquities. Thesermon was remarkable for directness, simplicity, andearnestness. When he quoted the passage, As faras the east is from the west, so far hath He removedour transgressions from us, he said, How gloriousis this statement! If it had been as far as the Southis from the ^N^orth it would have been an immense dis-tance; but no, it is as far as the East is from the West,an immeasurable distance. From the first sentenceto the l
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