• “I was poor in the midst of riches, and ready to perish with hunger near a table plentifully spread and a continual feast. Oh, Beauty, ancient and new! Why have I known thee so late? Alas, I sought thee where thou wast not, and did not seek thee where thou wast…” – Madame Guyon

The Life of Susannah Spurgeon

Chapter 10 – Founding of ‘The Book Fund’

    Founding of ‘The Book Fund’

    MRS. SPURGEON, had she organized no new work herself, would always have been remembered as… Continue reading

Chapter 11 – The Book Fund Grows

    The Book Fund Grows

    A FEW months before the Book Fund originated, Mrs. Spurgeon had sown in a large garden… Continue reading

Chapter 12 – Continued Success of the Book Fund

    Continued Success of the Book Fund

    TO give anything like a history of Mrs. Spurgeon’s Book Fund in these pages… Continue reading

Chapter 13 – Last Years of Married Life

    Last Years of Married Life

    IN 1880 Mr. and Mrs. Spurgeon removed from Nightingale Lane, Clapham, to “Westwood,” Beulah Hill,… Continue reading

Chapter 14 – Widowhood

    Widowhood

    MRS. SPURGEON’S widowhood lasted close upon a dozen years, and in a sense, her life, since 1892, must have… Continue reading

Chapter 15 – Conclusion

    Conclusion

    MRS. SPURGEON has gone, but her work remains. Her last thoughts were for the Book Fund, and for the… Continue reading

  • “A Christian woman’s true freedom lies on the other side of a very small gate—humble obedience—but that gate leads out into a largeness of life undreamed of by the liberators of the world, to a place where the God-given differentiation between the sexes is not obfuscated but celebrated, where our inequalities are seen as essential to the image of God, for it is in male and female, in male as male and female as female, not as two identical and interchangeable halves, that the image is manifested.” – Elisabeth Elliot

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For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. — Romans 14:8 (NKJV)

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