The Sorrowing Have a Savior: Lessons from Spurgeon’s Depression

Charles Spurgeon spoke of depression as the soul relentlessly bleeding out — like one who dies again and again, hour upon hour. The mind can descend far lower than the body, for in it there are bottomless pits. The flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds and no more, but the soul can bleed in ten thousand ways, and die over and over again each hour. (Spurgeon’s Sorrows, 16) According to Spurgeon, our depressions of various kinds make us like those who “traverse” the “h