The Egyptian dog!

The Egyptian dog!

The following is from Spurgeon's sermon,
   "A REFRESHING CANTICLE"

The old Puritan pastors frequently compared their hearers to the Egyptian dog that ran to the Nile, and drank, and then ran away.

Their hearers came up to the meeting-house, and heard the minister, took a little sip of the gospel, which sufficed them, and then they were off.

One preacher said that he wished they were like the fishes-
not come and lap at the stream, as the dog did, but swim in it,
and live in it.

There are too many, in this age, who are content with hearing
a little of Christ's love; a sip by the way is all that they
seem to need.

But it would be far better if you could come up to Rutherford's ideal-
"I would have my soul sunk over its masthead in a sea of love to Christ.
 I would be sunken fifty fathoms deep in the mighty shoreless ocean of his love, so that there might be nothing left of me, and that I might be swallowed up in love to Christ, and in Christ's love to me."