Christopher Morgan passed along these words from Charles Haddon Spurgeon as he encouraged unbelievers, “To be laughed at is no great hardship for me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. But that you should turn from your own mercy, this is my sorrow. Spit on me, but oh repent! Laugh at me, but, oh, believe in my Master! Make my body as the dirt in the streets, but do not damn your own souls.”
Morgan quotes Spurgeon further, “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one person go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
And he adds one more admonishmnet from Spurgeon, “The Holy Spirit will move them by first moving you. If you can rest without their being saved, they will rest, too. But if you are filled with an agony for them, if you cannot bear that they are lost, you will soon find that they are uneasy, too.”
Spurgeon's words stand in stark contrast to the growing universalistic tenor of our day. May we see more Spurgeons rise up in our midst!