Charles Spurgeon Quotes
If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.
Spurgeon, Charles H. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons. Passmore and Alabaster, 1885.
Lincoln was referring to the "house divided against itself" speech. His remarks were addressed to friends who were trying to dissuade him from delivering the address.
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.