# “The lone island of despondency” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2015-04-27T12:00:13-05:00
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“I think that this is the darkest of all the Psalms. It has hardly a spot of light
in it. The only bright words that I know of are in the first verse. The rest of 
the Psalm, is very dark, and very dreary.

Why, then, am I going to read it? Because, it may be, there is some poor heart here
that is very heavy.

You cannot tell out of this great crowd how many sorrowing and burdened spirits 
there may be amongst us. But there may be a dozen or two of persons who are driven
almost to despair.

My dear friend, if this is your case, I want you to know that _somebody else_ has
been just where _you_ are.

Remember how the shipwrecked man upon the lonely island all of a sudden came upon
the footprints of another human being.

So here, on the lone island of despondency, you shall be able to trace the footprints
of another who has been there before you. Hear how he prays.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “[An Exposition of Psalm 88](http://www.esvbible.org/Psalm+88/)”
in [_The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons_](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Metropolitan+Tabernacle+Pulpit+Volume+41&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)(
vol. 41; London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1895), 478.

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