Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
Spurgeon, Charles H. The Treasury of David, vol. 3. Passmore and Alabaster, 1872, p. 306.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just been shot after winning the California Democratic presidential primary. The president addressed the nation on television:
The South Americans did not have the training or the military traditions of warfare, not did they have an officer and noncommissioned officer corps that the then superpowers of the world like England and Spain had. Nonetheless, his amazing success against the disciplined Spanish ships made him a hero of the South American revolutionists and his English countrymen alike. He had been forced out of the English navy amid scandal, and after his victories in South America against the hated Spanish, he was brought back to the English navy as a hero and given charge of all the Western English forces. Part of his brilliance was that he developed naval tactics that suited the personalities and norms of the South Americans who did not have the discipline and training of the English or Spanish Navy.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 whites. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find. This description was of a North Carolina community.
Ignorant political opposition to new scientific findings has been characteristic of some of the politicians in most governments in most eras.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
