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“Interview” With Charles H. Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon was to 19th-century England what D. L Moody was to America. Although Spurgeon never attended theological school, by the age of 21 he was the most popular preacher in London. He preached to crowds of 10,000 at Exeter Hall and the Surrey Music Hall. Then when the Metropolitan Tabernacle was built, thousands gathered every Sunday for over 40 years to hear his lively sermons

If Spurgeon was in our midst today, what advice would he give a young man beginning the gospel ministry?

Get to the work and be clear about the gospel.

“Many of our young folks cannot do great things, and therefore do nothing at all; let none of our readers become the victims of such an unreasonable ambition. He who is willing to teach infants, or to give away tracts, and so to begin at the beginning, is far more likely to be useful than the youth who is full of affectations and sleeps in a white necktie, who is studying for the ministry, and is touching up certain superior manuscripts which he hopes ere long to read from the pastor’s pulpit. He who talks upon plain gospel themes in a farmer’s kitchen, and is able to interest the carter’s boy and the dairymaid, has more of the minister in him than the prim little man who talks forever about being cultured, and means by that being taught to use words which nobody can understand.”