I wish, somebody would have told me the following long ago:

Spurgeon is saying this on July 16, EVENING (Morning and Evening- Daily Readings):

Three powerful sentences.

“A selfish man in trouble is exceedingly hard to comfort, because the springs of his comfort lie entirely within himself, and when he is sad all his springs are dry.

But a generous man, full of Christian philanthropy, has other springs from which to supply himself with comfort beside those which lie within.

He can go to his God first of all, and there find abundant help; and he can discover arguments for consolation in things relating to the world at large, to his country, and, above all, to the church.”