Your Wretched Regulations

“To the pure mind, none of the powers of manhood are common or unclean. Humour can be consecrated, and should be . . . some preachers are so unnatural themselves, that the human nature of their hearers refuses to subject itself to their operations. O ye who are evermore decorously dull, before ye judge a man whose loving ministry conducted thousands to the skies, think how immeasurably above you he soared, and remember that with all his violations of your wretched regulations, he was one whom the Lord delighted to honor. Farthing candles rail at the sun for his spots” (Spurgeon, Eccentric Preachers, pp. 186-187).