Show L why laby mr spurgeon rejected the lecture offer we have already stated that mr arr spurgeon has lias rejected a tempting attempting offer to lecture in america the other day mr spurgeon gave his own version of the affair and how it ended he said 1 I will tell you one little thing that happened to me this afternoon I 1 had a letter from a gen gentleman leman ieman well known in America giving me this offer for twenty five lecturers that is for each lecture 0 on n these terms the twenty five nights would give me JC and in a hundred nights I 1 should have llave besides this I 1 should be allowed to lecture for as many more nights as I 1 chose so that I 1 might in the course of a year be worth and no doubt the persons who undertake this thia would earn ten times the amount I 1 have nothing to do but to leave you for a year and come home with xa or while if I 1 stay here I 1 shall have nothing like that what do you suppose was my answer to this offer onner I 1 1 wrote if you were vere ie to ill lii multiply that offer by one hundred times and again a hundred times I 1 s should h Q uld feel it as easy to decline as I 1 do now when isay I 1 bay say I 1 cannot cross the ocean to lecture upon any subject whatever I 1 am a minister of tile the gospel and never lectured for money and do not intend to do so now and if my iny people cannot support me it is a pity some people would say why not go over to america and get the tiie money to build the college I 1 shall not do so because I 1 would not do one thing tiling to degrade myself or disgrace you I 1 shall shail not make any appeal to another country to do what you can and ought to 10 do lo there are two brothers here tonight to night who llave have received offers from fram america each man can lecture as well as preach and there is no harm in their having 1500 and a months holiday if I 1 were ili in their position I 1 should do the same thing but as I 1 am I 1 cannot leave you I 1 cannot leave the college nor the orphanage not ilot if my house were filled with silver and gold from top to bottom I 1 should feel if I 1 went to america that I 1 should go not to preach the tile gospel but to lecture and I 1 cannot do that not for the tile national debt 11 liverpool mercury |