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It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

Charles Spurgeon

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Charles Spurgeon
Age: 57 †
Born: 1834
Born: June 19
Died: 1892
Died: January 31
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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