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by C. H. Spurgeon

The Traveller and the Merchant

“yi traveller a7id a merchant differ J Urns: a traveller goes fro7n place to place that he may see; but a merchant goes from poi’t ta port that he may take in his lading, and grow rich by Thus there are travelling hearers who merely observe and criticize, and go their way very little the better for what they have heard; and there are also merchant-hearers who listen to profit and make a gain to their souls out of every sermon. O Lord put me among the wise merchantmen, and in my trading may I find the one pearl of great price, even Jesus, thy Son.

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