Your weekly Dose of Spurgeon
The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from the MTP, volume 45, sermon number 2,604, "Open praise and public confession."
"Those gentlemen who want to mend the Bible, really need mending themselves: that is where the mischief lies in most cases."
They say that we ought to alter Scripture because scientists have found out something or other. Yes, I know all about that kind of talk; scientists found out many things years ago, and within ten years somebody else rose up, and found out that they were all wrong.
The history of so-called philosophy is the history of fools; and the philosophers of this day are no more right than those of fifty years ago.
The men are coming to the front who will confute the positive assertions of the present; and, when they have made their own assertions, and made their bow, another set of wise men will be coming after them to confound them.
They are all as the grass that withereth, but “the Word of the Lord endureth for ever.” It has been tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times; and here it remains, the pure refined metal still, and in
this will we glory, and not be ashamed.
