THE REV. W. WRIGHT, D.D., Of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
'Thirty-four years ago Charles Hadden Spurgeon met me at the parting ut the ways, wid sent me on the path which have' since been trying to travel, From that time forward he and I becuna fast frien last ten years I have had " standing invitation, as his near neighbour, to spend riy Saturday afternoons with him.' [used my privilege but sufficiently to have had an opportunity of seeing my great and many-sided friend from many points of view. A few lights from the outer and inner circles may prove ni eresiing but useful, Mr. Spurgeon visited Belfast in 1858. 1 was then preparing to enter college, with a hankering after the Indian Civil Service. Mr. Spurgeon preached in Dr. Cooke's church. He singled me out, as I thought, and spoke to me as if no one else was present, Lhere was no thrumiing of theology, and no pious posing, but. a clear, direct, hot, living personal appeal that dare not
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