As a teenager, Charles Spurgeon was miserable under the weight of his sin and kept visiting churches hoping somebody would show him how to be saved. On Sunday, January 6, 1850, a snowstorm drove him off the main road and into a little Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester. Only a handful of people were there, and the regular preacher never showed up. A thin, plain man, Spurgeon thought maybe a shoemaker or tailor, got up and stuck to his text because he had little else to say: “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” Spurgeon later said that when he heard the word “Look!” he looked until he could almost have looked his eyes away. The young man who found Christ that day became the Prince of Preachers.
