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are vessels of mercy, they are not for the devil’s use, not for their own use,
not for the world’s use, but for their Master’s use. He has made them on
purpose to be used entirely, solely and wholly for Him. O ye Christian
people, be holy, for Christ is holy. Do not pollute that holy Name wherewith
ye are named. Let your family life, your personal life, your business life, be
as holy as Christ your Lord would have it to be. Shall saints be shams when
sinners are so real?”
SPURGEON’S TESTIMONY
His heart was filled with devotion and his face was radiant with delight as
he spoke of the grace and love and beauty of his Lord. He weaved rapturous
thoughts from the Psalms, the Song of Solomon and the Epistles of Paul
concerning the ‘Well-beloved’. He delighted to speak of the person and
work, the character and qualities of the Saviour. From whatever text he
took for his sermon he would soon make straight across country to the Lord
Jesus. Christ was the golden key to Scripture for Spurgeon.

He said, “Oh, how I love to hear Him praised! It sets my heart a-dancing.
His name is sweet as the honeycomb, and His word is precious as the gold of
Ophir. His person is very dear to us; from His head to His foot He is
altogether lovely. When we get near Him, and see Him at the last, I think
we shall swoon away with excess of joy at the sight of Him, and I for one ask
no heaven beyond a sight of Him and a smile of His love.
“What was Jesus Christ to me at the first? He was the object of my
warmest love; was it not with you also? Was He not chief among ten thousand
and the altogether lovely? What charms, what beauties were in that dear
face of His. And what a freshness, what a novelty, what a delight, that set
all our passions on fire! It was so in those early days when we went after Him
in the wilderness. Though all the world around was barren, He was all in all
to us. What is He today? He is fairer to us now than ever He was. He is the
one gem that we possess; our other jewels have all turned out to be but
glass, but He is the Koh-i-noor diamond that our soul delights in; all perfections
joined together to make one absolute perfection; all the graces adorning
Him, and overflowing to us.”
The Second Coming of Christ was preached by Spurgeon throughout his

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