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Never has the old faith of Jesus failed.
* "The god of modern thought exceedingly resembles the deities described in this psalm.<ref>Psalm 115:8</ref> [[Pantheism]] is wondrously akin to Polytheism, and yet differs very little from Atheism. The god manufactured by our great thinkers is a mere abstraction: he has no eternal purposes, he does not interpose on the behalf of his people, he cares but very little as to how much man sins, for he has given to the initiated "a larger hope" by which the most incorrigible are to be restored. He is what the last set of critics chooses to make him, he has said what they choose to say, and lie will do what they please to prescribe. Let this creed and its devotees alone, and they will work out their own refutation, for as now their god is fashioned like themselves, they will by degrees fashion themselves like their god; and when the principles of justice, law, and order shall have all been effectually sapped we may possibly witness in some form of socialism, similar to that which is so sadly spreading in Germany, a repetition of the evils which have in former ages befallen nations which have refused the living God, and set up gods of their own." - ''The Treasury of David'', p. 267.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vdFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms], by C. H. Spurgeon, 1882</ref>
* "The god of modern thought exceedingly resembles the deities described in this psalm.<ref>Psalm 115:8</ref> [[Pantheism]] is wondrously akin to Polytheism, and yet differs very little from Atheism. The god manufactured by our great thinkers is a mere abstraction: he has no eternal purposes, he does not interpose on the behalf of his people, he cares but very little as to how much man sins, for he has given to the initiated "a larger hope" by which the most incorrigible are to be restored. He is what the last set of critics chooses to make him, he has said what they choose to say, and lie will do what they please to prescribe. Let this creed and its devotees alone, and they will work out their own refutation, for as now their god is fashioned like themselves, they will by degrees fashion themselves like their god; and when the principles of justice, law, and order shall have all been effectually sapped we may possibly witness in some form of socialism, similar to that which is so sadly spreading in Germany, a repetition of the evils which have in former ages befallen nations which have refused the living God, and set up gods of their own." - ''The Treasury of David'', p. 267.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=vdFJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms], by C. H. Spurgeon, 1882</ref>
* "Whatever there may lack of grace and beauty in our speech, and our outward appearance, may there be no lack of Jesus Christ, set forth among the sons of men; for "men shall be blessed in him," and not without him. Great schemes of socialism have been tried and found wanting; let us look to regeneration by the Son of God, and we shall not look in vain. Nothing has come of newfangled preaching, from the first day till now; but never has the old faith of Jesus failed. Men have been blessed in Jesus, and they shall be blessed in him as long as the race shall exist." - Jesus "All Blessing and All Blest", February 1st, 1891<ref>[http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/2187.php Jesus "All Blessing and All Blest"]</ref>
* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.
* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.