Spurgeon on Finding a Preacher to Fill a Chapel

Spurgeon often recounted a time when a deacon south a minister for his church and he asked Spurgeon to find him a minister to “fill a chapel.”  Spurgeon responded, “I had not one big enough, and added that I thought it was the business of the people to try to gather the congregation, but I would send a brother who would do his best to fill the pulpit, and preach the gospel faithfully” (Spurgeon, Autobiography, vol. 2, p. 107).