Spurgeon and The Shepherd's Conference

I got this from Reformed Voices, another great blog you should visit. It's a quote from the 'Prince pf Preachers' and fits in so well with the teaching we're hearing at the Conference that I thought I would share it. It always amazes me how much Spurgeon's words, from almost 150 years ago, ring true today:

"Pray God to send a few men with what the Americans call 'grit' in them; men, who when they know a thing to be right, will not turn away, or turn aside, or stop; men who will persevere all the more because there are difficulties to meet or foes to encounter; who stand all the more true to their Master because they are opposed; who, the more they are thrust into the fire, the hotter they become, who, just like the bow, the further the string is drawn the more powerfully it sends forth its arrows, and so the more they are trodden upon, the more mighty will they become in the cause of truth against error." - C. S. Spurgeon