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Speculations: Their Folly

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While a minister of my acquaintance was riding in a railway carriage, he was saluted by a member of an exceedingly litigious and speculative sect. 'Pray, sir,' said the sectary, 'what is your opinion of the 'seven trumpets?' 'I am not sure,' said the preacher, 'that I understand your question, but I hope you will comprehend mine: What think you of the fact that your seven children are growing up without God and without hope? You have a Bible-reading in your house for your neighbours, but no 'family prayer for your children.' The nail was fastened in a sure place, enough candour of mind remained in the professor to enable him to profit by the timely rebuke. It were greatly to be desired that Christians who are so much given to speculate upon the prophecies, would turn their thoughts and leisure to the perishing myriads by whom we are surrounded, and sow in the fields of evangelisation rather than in the cloudland of guess-work interpretation.

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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Speculations: Their Folly'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​s/speculations-their-folly.html. 1870.
 
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