Faith, Great Things Wrought by – Charles Spurgeon

WHEN the College of which I am President had been commenced, for a year or so all my means stayed; my purse was dried up, and I had no other means of carrying it on. In this very house, one Sunday evening, I had paid away all I had for the support of my young men for the ministry. There is a dear friend now sitting behind me who knows the truth of what I am saying. I said to him, “There is nothing left whatever.” He said, “You have a good banker, sir.” “Yes,” I said, “and I should like to draw upon him now, for I have nothing.” “Well,” said he, “how do you know? have you prayed about it?” “Yes, I have.” “Well, then, leave it with him; have you opened your letters?” “No, I do not open my letters on Sundays.” “Well,” said he, “open them for once.” I did so, and in the first one I opened there was a banker’s letter to this effect: “Dear Sir, We beg to inform you that a lady, totally unknown to us, has left with us two hundred pounds for you to use in the education of young men.” Such a sum has never come since, and it never came before; and I have no more idea than the dead in their graves how it came then, nor from whom it came, but to me it seemed that it came directly from God. We have gone on ever since with that work successfully, and are resolved to launch out into others; and I believe that we only want as a church, and your pastor only wants as your pastor, to have faith in God, and we shall find him “wonderful in counsel and excellent in working.” Wherever there is the hand of a true man there is the wing of an angel. Wherever there is the working of the sword of Joshua and the prayer of Moses, the almighty arm of the God of Israel is present. You have but to believe, and to go forward, leaning upon him who made Heaven and earth, and all will be well.