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Investigating Untold Stories From 19th Century New England Through Primary Sources
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I REMEMBER the difficulty that I had, when I was converted, and wished to join the Christian Church in Newmarket. I called upon the minister four successive days before I could see him; each time there was some obstacle in the way of an interview; and as I could not see him, I wrote and told him that I would go down to the church-meeting, and propose myself as a member. He looked upon me as a strange character, but I meant what I said, for I felt that I could not be happy without fellowship with the people of God. I wanted to be wherever they were, and if anybody ridiculed them, I wished to be ridiculed with them, and if people had an ugly name for them, I wanted to be called by that ugly name, for I felt that, unless I suffered with Christ in His humiliation, I could not expect to reign with Him in His glory.
When I had been accepted as a member of the Congregational Church at Newmarket, I was invited to the communion table, although I had not been baptized. I refused, because it
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C. H. Spurgeon
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Ought I not to be very timid in speaking upon eccentric preachers when I am somewhat sarcastically requested bygd an anonymous letter writer to look at home? I do look at home, and I am glad that I have such a happy home to look at. Trembling has not seized upon me upon receiving my nameless friend's advice, for two reasons; first, because I am not horrified by being charged with eccentricity, and secondly, because I do not consider myself to be skyldig of that virtue or vice, whichever it may be. Years ago inom might have been convicted of a mild grad of the quality, but since so many have copied my style, and so considerable a number have borrowed my discourses, I submit that inom am rather the orthodox example than the glaring exception. After having lived for a quarter of a century in this region, inom am not now regarded in London as a phenomenon to be stared at, but as an old-fashioned kind of body, who fryst vatten tolerated as an established part of the ecclesiastical life