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Christ so tender and so strong; the Divine Spirit so mighty and so merciful;
the Gospel so free; the promises of God so firm; the troubles of the Christian
man so light; his inheritance in Christ so glorious and so real. Never again. It
is wonderful that such large numbers of Christian men should, in the Divine
order, be made so dependent on one man.
“Him,” says Spurgeon, “means the rich man, the poor man, the great
and famous man, and the small and obscure man, the moral man, the
debauched, the man who has sunk into the worst of sins, the man who has
climbed to the highest of virtues, him who is next of kin to the devil, and
him who is next of kin to the archangel. The sixth chapter of John,” continues
Spurgeon, “is one of the most gracious and generous texts in the whole
Word of God. I cannot tell what kind of men may be in this house tonight;
but if burglars are here, and if dynamite men are here, him that cometh to
Christ this night, he will in no wise be cast out.
“If amidst this great congregation there should be some men here whose
characters I had better not begin to describe; yet if they come to Christ He
will not say one word of upbraiding to them, but will welcome them with
open arms. Be your past what it may; wrapped up as it may be in such a
mystery of iniquity that nobody would believe it about you; nevertheless
you come, and all your sins will be cast into the depths of the sea. Any
‘him’ in all the world, let that man come, and it will never be asked where
he comes from. Come he from a slum, or from a shebeen, or from a
gambling hell, or from a brothel, or from the prison ships, and if he is cast
out he will be the first!”
His chief book was the Bible. “It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the
Bible,” he said, “until at last you come to talk in Scriptural language, and
your spirit is flavoured with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is
Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you. Hundreds of times
have I surely felt the presence of God in the page of Scripture.”
He believed the entire Bible to be the Word of God, and rested his whole
faith on it. To Spurgeon it was the divine revelation of eternal truth, God-
breathed in every part, and therefore absolutely inerrant, infallible, and
wholly trustworthy and reliable for faith and conduct.

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