Charles Haddon Spurgeon honors George Fox

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This excerpt is taken from the conclusion of Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s speech delivered to the Society of Friends in London in 1866 in honor of George Fox (1624-1691).

“I came here to ask you to help those of us who are trying to fight against ritualism and idolatry with your prayers and your sympathies. I do not ask you to agree with us in a great many things, which we as conscientiously believe to be right as you do conscientiously believe them to be wrong. But do recollect us in your prayers, for we are fighting a common battle for spiritual religion. If there be young men here with talents which should be consecrated to God; if there should be Christian brethren here who have been getting money and using it well, but who have not wholly and thoroughly devoted it to the bearing of a testimony for Christ, I do pray in the name of Him who died upon the cross, by whose blessed Spirit we have been brought to trust in Him, you consecrate yourselves to His service wholly and unreservedly.”

Charles Haddon Spurgeon in George Fox: An Address Delivered to the Society of Friends (Philadelphia: Henry Longstreth, 1867) 29.