I have nothing to say against recreation in its proper place. Certain forms of recreation are needful and useful; but it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man. From early morning till late at night some spend their time in a round of frivolities, or else their very work is simply carried on to furnish them funds for their pleasures. This is vicious. Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

His weekly sermons which sold for a penny each were widely circulated and still remain one of the all-time best selling series of writings publiCharles Spurgeond in history. The collection was purchased by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary [5]in Kansas City Missouri in 2006 for $400000 and is currently undergoing restoration. Spurgeon found friends in London among his fellow pastors such as William Garrett Lewis of Westbourne Grove Church an older man who along with Spurgeon went on to found the London Baptist Association.

Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. ) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers".