22 OCTOBER (1871)
The talking book
‘When thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.’ Proverbs 6:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING (Spurgeon): Psalm 119:161–176
I was assured the other day by a good man, with a great deal of alarm, that all England was going over to popery. I told him I did not know what kind of God he worshipped, but my God was a good deal bigger than the devil, and did not intend to let the devil have his way after all, and that I was not half as much afraid of the Pope at Rome as of the ritualists at home. But, mark it, there is some truth in these fears. There will be a going over to one form of error or another, unless there is in the Christian church a more honest, industrious and general reading of Holy Scripture.
What if I were to say that most of you church members do not read your Bibles; would I be slandering you? You hear on the Lord’s Day a chapter read, and you perhaps read a passage at family prayer, but a very large number never read the Bible privately for themselves; they take their religion out of the monthly magazine, or accept it from the minister’s lips. Oh for the Berean spirit back again, to search the Scriptures whether these things be so. I would like to see a huge pile of all the books, good and bad that were ever written, prayer-books, sermons and hymn-books, all smoking like Sodom of old, if the reading of those books keeps you away from the reading of the Bible; for a ton weight of human literature is not worth an ounce of Scripture; one single drop of the essential tincture of the word of God is better than a sea full of our commentings and sermonisings, and the like.
We must live upon the word, the simple, pure, infallible word of God, if we are to become strong against error and tenacious of truth. Brethren, may you be established in the faith, rooted, grounded and built up; but I know you cannot be unless you search the Scriptures continually.
FOR MEDITATION: In a world full of deceitful and empty talkers, we need to be taught by those who hold faithfully to the Bible (1 Timothy 4:1, 6; Titus 1:9–10). But we still need to do our own homework (Acts 17:11); those who fail to do their homework usually get into trouble.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 303.
The talking book
‘When thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.’ Proverbs 6:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING (Spurgeon): Psalm 119:161–176
I was assured the other day by a good man, with a great deal of alarm, that all England was going over to popery. I told him I did not know what kind of God he worshipped, but my God was a good deal bigger than the devil, and did not intend to let the devil have his way after all, and that I was not half as much afraid of the Pope at Rome as of the ritualists at home. But, mark it, there is some truth in these fears. There will be a going over to one form of error or another, unless there is in the Christian church a more honest, industrious and general reading of Holy Scripture.
What if I were to say that most of you church members do not read your Bibles; would I be slandering you? You hear on the Lord’s Day a chapter read, and you perhaps read a passage at family prayer, but a very large number never read the Bible privately for themselves; they take their religion out of the monthly magazine, or accept it from the minister’s lips. Oh for the Berean spirit back again, to search the Scriptures whether these things be so. I would like to see a huge pile of all the books, good and bad that were ever written, prayer-books, sermons and hymn-books, all smoking like Sodom of old, if the reading of those books keeps you away from the reading of the Bible; for a ton weight of human literature is not worth an ounce of Scripture; one single drop of the essential tincture of the word of God is better than a sea full of our commentings and sermonisings, and the like.
We must live upon the word, the simple, pure, infallible word of God, if we are to become strong against error and tenacious of truth. Brethren, may you be established in the faith, rooted, grounded and built up; but I know you cannot be unless you search the Scriptures continually.
FOR MEDITATION: In a world full of deceitful and empty talkers, we need to be taught by those who hold faithfully to the Bible (1 Timothy 4:1, 6; Titus 1:9–10). But we still need to do our own homework (Acts 17:11); those who fail to do their homework usually get into trouble.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 303.
22 OCTOBER (1871)
The talking book
‘When thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.’ Proverbs 6:22
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING (Spurgeon): Psalm 119:161–176
I was assured the other day by a good man, with a great deal of alarm, that all England was going over to popery. I told him I did not know what kind of God he worshipped, but my God was a good deal bigger than the devil, and did not intend to let the devil have his way after all, and that I was not half as much afraid of the Pope at Rome as of the ritualists at home. But, mark it, there is some truth in these fears. There will be a going over to one form of error or another, unless there is in the Christian church a more honest, industrious and general reading of Holy Scripture.
What if I were to say that most of you church members do not read your Bibles; would I be slandering you? You hear on the Lord’s Day a chapter read, and you perhaps read a passage at family prayer, but a very large number never read the Bible privately for themselves; they take their religion out of the monthly magazine, or accept it from the minister’s lips. Oh for the Berean spirit back again, to search the Scriptures whether these things be so. I would like to see a huge pile of all the books, good and bad that were ever written, prayer-books, sermons and hymn-books, all smoking like Sodom of old, if the reading of those books keeps you away from the reading of the Bible; for a ton weight of human literature is not worth an ounce of Scripture; one single drop of the essential tincture of the word of God is better than a sea full of our commentings and sermonisings, and the like.
We must live upon the word, the simple, pure, infallible word of God, if we are to become strong against error and tenacious of truth. Brethren, may you be established in the faith, rooted, grounded and built up; but I know you cannot be unless you search the Scriptures continually.
FOR MEDITATION: In a world full of deceitful and empty talkers, we need to be taught by those who hold faithfully to the Bible (1 Timothy 4:1, 6; Titus 1:9–10). But we still need to do our own homework (Acts 17:11); those who fail to do their homework usually get into trouble.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 303.
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