# “After preaching the gospel for forty years” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2015-11-09T15:00:13-06:00
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“After preaching the gospel for forty years, and after printing the sermons I have
preached more than six-and-thirty years, reaching now to the number of 2,200 in 
weekly succession, I am fairly entitled to speak about the fulness and richness 
of the Bible, as a preacher’s book.

Brethren, it is inexhaustible. No question about freshness will arise if we keep
closely to the text of the sacred volume. There can be no difficulty as to finding
themes totally distinct from those we have handled before; the variety is as infinite
as the fulness.

A long life will only suffice us to skirt the shores of this great continent of 
light. In the forty years of my own ministry I have only touched the hem of the 
garment of divine truth; but what virtue has flowed out of it!

The Word is like its Author, infinite, immeasurable, without end.”

–Charles Spurgeon, _[The Greatest Fight in the World](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1781913293?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Geanies House, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus, 2014), 58.

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