Reading Old Books...

I've been reading Charles Hadden Spurgeon's 'Lectures To My Students', and I am often reminded that in these pages he is speaking to us from a different era. He can be cutting in a fashion that just simply wouldn't fly in today's overly sensitive culture (and I fully recognize that I am part of this culture). For example, here's a quote from him regarding a sermon series another pastor gave on the book of Hebrews. "I have a very lively, or rather a deadly, recollection of a certain series of discourses on the Hebrews, which made a deep impression on my mind of the most undesirable kind. I wished frequently that the Hebrews had kept the epistle to themselves, for it sadly bored one poor Gentile lad. By the time the seventh or eighth discourse had been delivered, only the very good people could stand it.... Paul, in that epistle, exhorts us to suffer the word of exhortation, and we did so." Gotta love that kind of honesty.