"'Have you ever heard the gospel before?' asked an Englishman, at Ningpo, of a respectable Chinaman, whom he had not seen in his mission room before. 'No,' he replied, 'but I have seen it. I know a man who used to be a terror of his neighborhood. If you gave him a hard word, he would shout at you, and curse you for two days and nights without ceasing. He was as dangerous as a wild beast, and a bad opium-smoker; but when the religion of Jesus took hold of him, he became wholly changed. He is gentle, moral, not soon angry, and has left off opium. Truly, the teaching is good.'" - Word and Work, as quoted in Spurgeon's Sermon Notes
Recommended reading:
The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray
A Defense of Calvinism - by Charles Spurgeon
