Worldly merriment - Charles Spurgeon

I THINK the men of this world like children in a dangerous storm in the sea, that play and make sport with the white foam of the waves thereof coming in to sink and drown them; so are men making fool’s sports with the white pleasures of a Stormy world that will sink them. But alas! what have we to do with their sports which they make? If Solomon said of laughter that it was madness, what may we say of this world’s laughing and sporting themselves with gold and silver, and honours, and court, and broad large conquests, * but that they are poor souls, in the height and rage of a fever gone mad? Then a straw, a fig, for all created sports and rejoicing out of Christ. — Samuel Rutherford.