Attendance At Public Worship - Charles H Spurgeon

Young should be Trained. The question is often asked how shall we get our working- classes to attend public worship. The answer may be supplied by an incident of my boyhood. On the mantel- shelf of my grandmother’s best parlour, among other marvels was an apple in a phia!. It quite filled up the body of the bottle, and my wondering enquiry was, ” How could it have been got into its place ?” By stealth I climbed a chair to see if the bottom would unscrew, or if there had been a join in the glass throughout the length of the phial. I was satisfied by careful observation that neither of these theories could be supported, and the apple remained, to me an enigma and a mystery. But as it was said of that other wonder, the source of the Nile