01/10/2025
"Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, I go the way of all the earth: ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ต๐๐๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป" (1 Kings 2:1-2).
"Now, sirs, we have fallen upon the dregs of time. ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ง๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐; we have not many left now. We have no men in government hardly, to conduct our politics, and scarcely any men in religion... Men who dare to be singular, because to be singular is generally ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ, are not very many in this age. Compared with the puritanic times even, where are our divines!
Think of Rowland Hill, Newton, Toplady, Doddridge, and numbers of others whom time would fail me to mention. They are gone, they are gone; their venerated dust sleeps in the earth, and where are their successors? Ask where, and echo will reply, โWhere?โ There are none. Successors of them, where are they? God hath not yet raised them up, or, if he have, you have not yet found out where they are.
-Charles Spurgeon on Habakkuk 3:2
๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ! ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด; ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ ๐๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด. ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ! ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ข๐ช๐ต, ๐๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ฌ; ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต! ๐๐ช๐ง๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต! ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ; ๐๐ด ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ, ๐๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ, ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ! -William Pierson Merrill (1911)
