SPURGEON ON THE PULPIT
If there is a place under high heaven more holy than another, it is the pulpit in which the gospel is preached. This is the Thermopylae of Christendom; here must the great battle be fought between Christ’s church and the invading hosts of a wicked world. This is the last vestige of anything sacred that is left to us. We have no altars now; Christ is our altar: but we have a pulpit still left, a place which, when a man enters, he might well put off his shoes from his feet, for the place whereon he stands is holy. Consecrated by a Savior’s presence, established by the clearness and the force of an apostle’s eloquence, maintained and upheld by the faithfulness and fervor of a succession of evangelists who, like stars, have marked the era in which they lived and stamped it with their names, the pulpit is handed down to those of us who occupy it now with…
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