Anecdote of Spurgeon.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 4525, 29 November 1884, Page 5

Anecdote of Spurgeon.

In the early part of his ministry, Spurgeon was asked to preach in a neighbouring village; and when he came on the Sunday morning, Mr Brown, the pastor, said, "I did not know you wero such a boy, or I would not havo askod you to preach for me. |J "Well," ho said, "I can go back. But, said Mr Brown, "the people have come from all parts in all lands of vehicles, and then he put lus hands under his coat-tails, and asked what the world was coming to when the boyH vho had not got rid ot the ta<te of their mother's milk wont about preaching. However lie did preach, ami Mr Brown posted himself on the pulpit stairs Spurgeon read a lesson from the Proverbs, and on coming to the passage, " Grey hairs are a crown of glory to a man, he said ho doubted that; for he knew • man with a grey, head whomould hardly be civil. ;But the passago went on to say :— "If if be found in the way of righteousness," and that, he said,, was a different thing. • When he came,down from the ,pulDit Mr Brown said to him: "Bless your heart, I have been thirty years -a minister, rind I was new better pleased with a sermons but you are the, sauciest. dog that ever barM in a pnlpit," and they were >a l^ay^iP9d;friei4dsafterwarcW. •; •■ •