“Therefore I left my relations, and became what I am today, a Baptist, so-called, but I hope a great deal more a Christian than a Baptist…
If I thought it wrong to be a Baptist, I should give it up, and become what I believed to be right. The particular doctrine adhered to by the Baptists is that they acknowledge no authority unless it comes form the Word of God. They attach no importance to the authority of the Fathers,–they care not for the authority of the mothers,–if what they say does not agree with the teaching of the Evangelists, Apostles, and Prophets, and, most of all, with the teaching of the Lord Himself.”
–Charles H. Spurgeon
An excerpt from Autobiography by Charles H. Spurgeon.