Sermons of the Rev C H Spurgeon Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON THE SIN OF UNBELIEF. 'And that lord answered the man of God, and said, Now, ben. Id, if the Lord should make windows in heaven, might such a thing b... more »e ? Atd he said, Behold, thou sbalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof!"—2 Kikgs, iL 19. One wise man may deliver a whole city; one good man may be the means of safety to a thousand others. The holy ones are " the salt of the earth," the means of the preservation of the wicked. Without the godly as a conserve, the race would be utterly destroyed. In the city of Samaria there was one righteous man—Elisha, the servant of the Lord. Piety was altogether extinct in the court. The king was a sinner of the blackest dye ; his iniquity was glaring and infamous. Jehoram walked in the ways of his father Ahab, and made unto himself false gods. The people of Samaria were fallen like their mon arch ; they had gone astray from Jehovah ; they had forsaken the God of Israel; they remembered not the watchword of Jacob, " The Lord thy God is one God ;" and in wicked idolatry they bowed before the idols of the heathens, and therefore the Lord of Hosts suffered their enemies to oppress them until the curse of Ebal was fulfilled in the streets of Samaria, for " the tender and delicate woman who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness" had an evil eye to her 6wn children, and devoured her offspring by reason of fierce hunger. (Deuteronomy, xxviii. 56-58.) In this awful extremity the one holy man was the medium of salvation. The one grain of salt preserved the entire city; the one warrior for God was the means of the deliverance of the whole beleaguered multitude. For Elisha's sake, the Lord sent the promise, that the next day, food, which could not bo obtained at any price, should be ...« less