Charles Spurgeon once wrote this about his mother:
I cannot tell how much I owe to the solemn words of my good mother. It was the custom on Sunday evenings, while we were yet little children, for her to stay home with us, and then we sat round the table, and read verse by verse, and she explained the Scriptures for us. After that was done, then came the time of pleading: there was a little piece of Alleine's Alarm or of Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, and this was read with pointed observations made to each of us as we sat around the table; and the question was asked, how long it would be before we would think about our state, how long before we would seek the Lord.
Then came a mother's prayer, and some of the words of that prayer we shall never forget, even when our hair is gray. I remember on one occasion, her praying thus, "Now Lord, if my children go on in their sins, it will not be from ignorance that they perish, and my soul must bear swift witness against them at the day of judgment if they lay not hold of Christ." That thought of a mother's bearing swift witness against me, pierced my conscience, and stirred my heart."
.....Spurgeon, Autobiography, The Early Years, Banner of Truth Trust
"My mother said to me once, after she had long prayed for me and had come to the conviction that I was hopeless. "Ah" said she, "My son, if at the last great day you are condemned, remember your mother will say 'Amen' to your condemnation." That stung me to the quick. Must the mother that brought me forth and that loved me say 'Amen' to my being condemned at last?' ........ Spurgeon, "The Chaff Driven Away." Sermon October 23, 1859
How are your family devotions going? Is the gospel being proclaimed?
I cannot tell how much I owe to the solemn words of my good mother. It was the custom on Sunday evenings, while we were yet little children, for her to stay home with us, and then we sat round the table, and read verse by verse, and she explained the Scriptures for us. After that was done, then came the time of pleading: there was a little piece of Alleine's Alarm or of Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, and this was read with pointed observations made to each of us as we sat around the table; and the question was asked, how long it would be before we would think about our state, how long before we would seek the Lord.
Then came a mother's prayer, and some of the words of that prayer we shall never forget, even when our hair is gray. I remember on one occasion, her praying thus, "Now Lord, if my children go on in their sins, it will not be from ignorance that they perish, and my soul must bear swift witness against them at the day of judgment if they lay not hold of Christ." That thought of a mother's bearing swift witness against me, pierced my conscience, and stirred my heart."
.....Spurgeon, Autobiography, The Early Years, Banner of Truth Trust
"My mother said to me once, after she had long prayed for me and had come to the conviction that I was hopeless. "Ah" said she, "My son, if at the last great day you are condemned, remember your mother will say 'Amen' to your condemnation." That stung me to the quick. Must the mother that brought me forth and that loved me say 'Amen' to my being condemned at last?' ........ Spurgeon, "The Chaff Driven Away." Sermon October 23, 1859
How are your family devotions going? Is the gospel being proclaimed?
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