"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not
commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther
and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were
never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves. We
have always existed from the days of Christ, and our principles, sometimes
veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel under ground for a
little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike
by Romanists and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never
existed a Government holding Baptist principles which persecuted others;
nor, I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be right to put the
consciences of others under the control of man..."—Charles H. Spurgeon


"If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this
country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth
be not diffused, then error will be. If God and His Word are not known and
received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency. If the
evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and
licentious literature will. If the power of the gospel is not felt
throughout the length and breadth of this land, anarchy and misrule,
degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without
mitigation or end."—Daniel Webster


David Warner

We shall not adjust our Bibles to the age; but before we have done with it,
we shall adjust the age to the Bible
                     Charles H. Spurgeon