Spurgeon's Witty Sayings.
In his " Reminiscences of C. H. Spurgecn." Mr. Williams gives us some of the many witty sayings of which the great preacher's addresses were full : Mind your illustrations are correct. It will never do to describe Noah as one did, sitting outside the ark reading his Bible. Mind your figures of speech are not ciacked. Don't talk like the brother who said, " I fly from star to star, from cherry-beam to cherry-beam." Get amongst your people, or somebody may be saying of you as one old lady said .of her minister, that he was invisible all the week and incomprehensible on Sundays. Shun all affectation in the pulpit, and mind you never get into the goody-goody style. One of this sort said—" I was reading this morning in dear Hebrews." Mind the theme of your sermon suits yourself. A beardless boy should not preach from " I have been young, and now am old." Keep from wandering in your preaching. "I am wandering in my mind." said one. " Well," said a friend, " you won't have far to go."
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2280, 29 September 1899, Page 6
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