and am loving it!Thinking of our Pittsburgh family, friends, and church, I noticed the connection between Spurgeon and H.J. Heinz in the 1860s (Heinz had by that time developed the ad slogan 'Heinz 57' for his varieties).
"By the 1860s a warm attitude toward Spurgeon had returned throughout much of America. The opposition over his stand against slavery had largely died away, and numerous people from various states had come to hear him while visiting Britain. One of his chief American friends was H. J. Heinz, the pickle manufacturer. Mr. Heinz was an earnest Christian, and whenever he was in England he visited the Tabernacle. He enjoyed personal friendship with Spurgeon and spoke of him as 'the most humble man I have ever known.'" (p. 135)
Chris and Elizabeth,
ReplyDeleteFrom Charles Spurgeon whom the Father uses to bring my heart to brokeness and my eyes to flooding:
The saving of souls, if a man has once gained love to perishing sinners, and love to his blessed Master, will be an all-absorbing passion to him. It will so carry him away, that he will almost forget himself in the saving of others. He will be like the stout, brave fireman, who careth not for the scorch or for the heat, so that he may rescue the poor creature on whom true humanity hath set his heart. He must, he will pluck such a one from the burning, at any cost and expense to himself. 284.474
Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for. 349.11
-- DP