Year: 1878

meeting of the English Baptist Union


at Leeds. To many of our readers ii


viii present the renowned preacher in


new light; and it would certainly


be hard to select one of his sermons


that should contain racier or timeli,r


things than this speech. On rising,


Mr.. Spurgeon was greeted with q


storm of cheers and applause, and


when this had subsidized he said:


/ thank you very much for this


hearty reception, but 1 am sure l


have not the slightest idea of what !


have done to deserve it, and / am


afraid it arises from lively sense OF


something to come which will be


grieyously disappointed. 1 am one


of the most unfortunate of human


beings. ] am expected to make 6


great speecl, and this is 8 thing


never did do. / was not born to do it.


/ can only speak right on and tell


yeu what know.


DRIVE ON!


You all know the name of that


great Welsh Baptist minister. Christ


mas Evans, and how gloriously he


preached. He was accustomed to
spend very much of his time in making
evangeli>tic journeys from town to


town with his little pony and chaise


and so. when he came to die, they
gathered around the old man to lis


ten to his last words, and after he had
said some precious things about his


Master h began to dream, and the
very last thing he said was, "Drive
on, dri,e on." And somehow I
thought it was very good word to
address TO you, my brethren Of the
Baptist Union, and to you, my breth-
fen OF all CHRISTIAN denominations i.


Drive oni drive on! There is such
tendency to pull up to refresh---such


a tendency to get out of the gig and
say, "What a,wonderful horse! Ney-
er saw horse GO over hill and down
dale like this horse-the best horse
that ever was, real sound Methodist
or Baptist horse" Now, brother,


ad nire our horse as much as ever
you like, but drive on. / have known
some who have often felt a sort of
disposition to go back; they have


been afraid PHILOSOPHERS tell US
the road IS up We cannot go that


way" but ! say, drive on, over the
philosophers and all. You will find
when you get to that desperately bad
piece of road that they are always
telling us OF, that after all it has been
improved by being broken up little
and being rolled down AGAIN at any
rate, drive on! Oh, if there are any
of you that have got to sitting still
in your gig, admiring the scenery
anil counting over all the souls that
you have already brought in, do drive
on, brethren, do drive on. Your
Lord and master tells you to $50
into all tae world and preach the
gospel to every creature;' and you
feel perfectly certain that you have
obeyed that command because you
have opened a little room three and
half miles from where yousre. Now
drive on, do drive or. There is more
to be done, great deal, than you
have atte mpted, and much more than
ifyou had attempted it you will be
likely to accomplish-driye on.
NECESSARY TO AxIsrENcE.


Our only hope as uui1SiIan church
es of healthy existence iios in prog
ress. You cannot stand still !; it will
be your ruin if you do, and it is at
your peril if you attempt it. When
Napoleon engaged in fresh wars,
some one asked hlm why he should
wish to push his armies any further,
and he said, Conquest made me
what am, and conquest must main-
tain me-" 1t is so with the church
of God-you must go on conquering
or being conquered. The case stands
just thus, as the Scotchman put it to
his regiment before the battle. Says
he, Lads, there they are. If yeI
dinna kill them, they will kill you,"
and that was quite enough. You
must go. on and vanquish sin and all |
the powers of darkness and evil, or
else you will be vanquished yourself. |
| have got a fine son, as think, but |
he is not contented with being tolera-
bly, tall he must ride on a pair of
I shall not try it myself. |
Reasons forbid; but am told that
the practical reasons why a fellow |
keeps upright on those wheels is be-
cause he goes on-and if he did not
90 on he would go off. 1t certainly |
is so with every Christian church.
Ifit does not go on it will go off; i'll
it does not advance, it is impossible |
fol it to retain what it already has /;
it will lose if it does. not gain. Go
brethren! Drive on, pray |
you, because your Masters command
Is large and wide. |


We have no idea of what the world |
Is. There was mouse that lived in |
a box that one day found the lid |
open, and it crept up the side of the |
box, and stood in cupboard, and
looked around the cupboard, and


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