Remembering Baptist Preacher Charles Spurgeon

 ... passed from this life into the next life 126 years ago today. No doubt about it -- he is in heaven with his beloved Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Not because Charles was good enough or because of his job title, but that he accepted the Saviour into his heart by faith. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Mr Spurgeon's wise words live on:

  "'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.' It is a goal to try and make any Christian happy, but especially a young believer, whose weakness needs great gentleness. To clothe religion with gloom is to slander the name of Christ. We should always be eager to prevent young believers from imagining that to follow Christ is to walk in darkness. It is not so! Has he not himself said, 'He that follows me shall not walk in darkness'? Did not the wise man say concerning wisdom, 'Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace'?" - Spurgeon

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