" May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?”43 "

― Steven J. Lawson , The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon (A Long Line of Godly Men Profile)