14 May W.O.W Spurgeon’s Depression
Charles Spurgeon suffered many times from depression, that he had to take time off to get away. The following is how he saw people who would disparage him during time of his bouts with illness. (PJ)
“It is well to suppose ignorance when we suffer wrong. A cruel letter came to me in my illness, but i hoped the writer did not know how depressed I was; a gossip repeated a silly slander. But I always believed that she thought it was the truth; an individual intentionally grossly insulted me, but I mistook it for a rough jest. In every case I have found it to my own comfort to believe that there must have been a mistake; besides, it makes it much easier to remove any unpleasant feeling if all along you have treated it as an error of judgment, or a blunder, occasioned by want of better information.” (C.H.S.)