Puffery—Spiritual – Charles Spurgeon

When we read the exaggerated accounts which are so frequently issued, lauding to the skies the successful labors of certain evangelists of doubtful vocation, we are reminded of the battle of Aliwal, of which an officer wrote, ” Aliwal was the battle of the dispatch, for none of us knew we had fought a battle until the particulars appeared in a document which did “tore than justice to everyone concerned.” Is there not quite enough religious fiction abroad without filling corners of newspapers and magazines therewith? We know who they were of old who sounded a trumpet before them. God’s real works of grace are too sublime to need the arts of puffery to publish them.