Spurgeon noted that many churches were no longer having prayer meetings.
Spiritual fervor was dwindling, congregations were thinning, and enthusiasm
for the gospel was quickly becoming extinct.
“Alas! many are returning to
the poisoned cups which drugged that declining generation. . . . Too many
ministers are toying with the deadly cobra of ‘another gospel,’ in the form of
‘modern thought.’ “
Who was chiefly to blame for the decline? Spurgeon believed it was the preachers:
“The case is mournful. Certain ministers are making infidels. Avowed atheists are
not a tenth as dangerous as those preachers who scatter doubt and stab at faith. . . .
Germany was made unbelieving by her preachers, and England is following in her tracks.”
Spurgeon made no effort to disguise his contempt for the modernists:
“These destroyers
of our churches appear to be as content with their work as monkeys with their mischief.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1832-1892)
From the Spurgeon Archive
Spurgeon and the Down-Grade Controversy by John F. MacArthur, Jr.