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For Charles Spurgeon, the celebrated 19th-century preacher, depression was more than just circumstantial. When he spoke of it in his sermons and lectures, his examples, which were often rooted in his own experience, included a significant form of depression: the kind that comes without cause. In one sermon, he said,
You may be surrounded with all the comforts of life and yet be in wretchedness more gloomy than death if the spirits are depressed. You may have no outward cause whatever for sorrow and yet if the mind is dejected, the brightest sunshine will not relieve your gloom. … There are times when all our evidences get clouded and all our joys are fled. Though we may still cling to the Cross, yet it is with a desperate grasp.
Evangelicals love great preaching and preachers. If a list was developed to include the best preachers, the name Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), without any doubt, would appear. Many are quick to celebrate the life and ministry of the 19th-century Baptist preacher in London, and rightly so. In many ways, Spurgeon modeled core commitments of evangelical thought and practice. He was undeniably a multifaceted leader. From pastoring a megachurch to overseeing an orphanage to establishing a college, he carried a large number of responsibilities. And yet, he’s most often remembered as the “prince of preachers.”
But what drove his preaching? What shaped his study of Scripture? In his recent book,