# “The sort of earnestness you need” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2008-03-24T16:04:05-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Do try, as far as you can, to make the very way in which you speak to minister 
to the great end you have in view. Preach, for instance, as you would plead if you
were standing before a judge, and begging for the life of a friend, or as if you
were appealing to the Queen herself on behalf of someone very dear to you.

Use such a tone in pleading with sinners as you would use if a gibbet were erected
in this room, and you were to be hanged on it unless you could persuade the person
in authority to release you. That is the sort of earnestness you need in pleading
with men as ambassadors for God.

Try and make every sermon such that the most flippant shall see without any doubt
that, if it be an amusement for them to hear you, it is no amusement for you to 
speak to them, but that you are pleading with them in downright solemn earnest about
eternal matters.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “[Sermons Likely to Win Souls](http://www.spurgeon.org/misc/sw04.htm)”
in _The Soul Winner_.

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