“I am occupied, in my small way, as Mr. Great-heart was employed in Bunyan’s day.
I do not compare myself with that champion, but I am in the same line of business.
I am engaged in personally-conducted tours to Heaven; and I have with me, at the present time, dear Old Father Honest: I am glad he is still alive and active.
And there is Christiana, and there are her children.
It is my business, as best I can, to kill dragons, and cut off giants’ heads, and lead on the timid and trembling.
I am often afraid of losing some of the weaklings.
I have the heart-ache for them; but, by God’s grace, and your kind and generous help in looking after one another, I hope we shall all travel safely to the river’s edge.
Oh, how many have I had to part with there!
I have stood on the brink, and I have heard them singing in the midst of the stream, and I have almost seen the shining ones lead them up the hill, and through the gates, into the Celestial City.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon, C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Volume 1: The Early Years (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1900/1962), 1: 373.
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