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1 | The Co-Union of Communion | 1 Cor 11:33 | DocTrinsograce | 175495 | ||
"When I joined the Baptist Church at Cambridge, one of the most respectable churches that can be found in the world, one of the most generous, one of the most intelligent -- this was a great many years ago, when I was young -- nobody spoke to me. On the Lord's Day I sat at the Communion table in a certain pew. There was one gentleman in it, and when the service was over, I said to him, 'I hope you are quite well, sir?' He said, 'You have the advantage of me.' I answered, 'I don't think I have, for you and I are brothers.' 'I don't quite know what you mean,' said he. 'Well,' I replied, 'when I took the bread and wine just now, in token of our being one in Christ, I meant it. Did not you?' We were by that time in the street; he put both his hands on my shoulders -- I was about sixteen years old then -- and he said, 'Oh, sweet simplicity!' Then he added, 'You are quite right, my dear brother, you are quite right. Come in to tea with me. I am afraid I should not have spoken to you if you had not first addressed me.' I went to tea with him that evening; and when I left, he asked me to go again the next Lord's Day, so I went, and that Sabbath Day he said to me, 'You will come here every Sunday evening, won't you?' So old Mr. [Isaac] Watts and young Mr. Spurgeon became fast friends." --Charles H. Spurgeon | ||||||
2 | The Co-Union of Communion | 1 Cor 11:33 | Hank | 175501 | ||
Hi, Doc - I've a question. Charles Haddon Spurgeon the preacher was born in 1834 and died in 1892. Isaac Watts the hymn-writer was born in 1674 and died in 1748. They were not contemporaries. Isaac Watts died 86 years before Charles Spurgeon was born. So how therefore could they have been friends and have tea together? Are my dates wrong or was Spurgeon talking about some other Mr. Watts? ..... Something is out of kilter here and perhaps you can tell us "Watts" wrong with this picture. Anyway, I like Spurgeon's sermons and Watts' hymns --Hank | ||||||