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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 | 175502 | ||
Doc, you may ignore my former question, because in doing additional research, I seem to have solved the mystery. The Spurgeon lad who became friends and drank tea with Isaac Watts was James Archer Spurgeon, grandfather of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. There was another later generation James Archer Spurgeon also; he was younger brother to Charles Haddon Spurgeon. As there are schools of sturgeons so evidently there are schools of Spurgeons. And I've been told there are even schools for surgeons. --Hank | ||||||
3 | The Co-Union of Communion | 1 Cor 11:33 | DocTrinsograce | 175508 | ||
Good validation and verification, Brother Hank. Thank you! I should have more clearly introduced the characters in rendering the anecdote. However, sometimes I get so caught up in the quotes themselves, I fail to notice the obvious things that a reader would need to know to make sense of them! | ||||||