- Mr. Spurgeon is dangerously ill, and all the world is
anxiously scanning the bulletins in hope of finding some encouragement to expect his recovery. It is a favourable sign of the times that the Archbishop of Canterbury and his family have called to inquire after his health, and that there is no quarter in which the most lively concern is not felt at the dangerous character of his illness. Mr. Spurgeon is one of the most sincere and manly teachers of the day. We observed, not without wonder, a few days ago, his signature to a de- claration of faith in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, with express reference to one or two of the most difficult and mysterious of the interpretations set upon the doctrinal lan- guage of the Gospels and Epistles. But some of the greatest of the spiritual teachers of the human race seem to have found it necessary to take their departure from an almost arbitrarily assumed basis of either Biblical or ecclesiastical infallibility, without which they would not have been half as effective even in their inculcation of what is absolutely true, as they actually have been.
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