Foreword
Chapter 1
John Angel James, who wrote an excellent book called The Anxious Enquirer, was a man who, serious and earnest always, had ever a laugh handy. While travelling on the railway a friend heard some passengers say of this good Christian: “Well, there’s a light-hearted man.”
Long before, in the days of the Commonwealth, there lived Thomas Fuller, the Christian historian. Of him it was said: “True humour was the very life of him. It was always present, like a latent electricity, and was ever likely to break forth into the lightning of wit.”
Mr Daniel Crawford was, indeed, a light-hearted man, and perhaps the capacity for appreciating the funny side of things was natural to him. A level-headed, keen man of business, he was always ready to flash out a pun; indeed, it appeared as if the impulse to do so was irresistible. C. H. Spurgeon, Mr Williams tells us, “found in his garden a source of unceasing delight.
I think he knew every single plant and flower his conservatories contained. ‘Look,’ he would say, ‘is not that exquisite? Look at the veins and colours in these leaves; don’t you think God has put His own thoughts into them? This plant, for instance, has His laughable thoughts; this His loving thoughts; and this His serious ones; all nature is full of God. His creation speaks of Him and for Him.’ We went into the vinery one day, when the tree was in full leaf. [Continue reading]
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