If you enjoy pens check out the new Pentel EnerGel. It's a smooth, vibrant, quick-drying ("great for lefties") liquid gel pen that actually writes clear without muddying things up.
Get it in violet ink. It's beautiful. Why? Because Spurgeon used a characteristic purple ink to emend and correct his sermons for publication. And C.H. Spurgeon was the most magnificent and majestic preacher since the apostle Paul. I can see you don't believe me, so look at www.spurgeon.org and www.spurgeon.us
This is the perfect purple pen. Every Sunday as he preached to between 7,000 and 25,000 people in London, a stenographer would take that sermon down in shorthand. Spurgeon corrected the manuscript copy on Monday and sent it to his printers. I have one of those pages.
Each Thursday a new sermon was printed. Each year they were bound into volumes. I have all 62 (publishing continued 25 years after his death). Today, there are even more volumes—modern emendations of his Victorian-English sermons.
I can tell you're still not a fan, so let me help you out. Get (for example) The Suffering of Man and the Sovereignty of God. Published by Fox River Press, it is 25 of Spurgeon's finest sermons just on the book of Job. Read it and you won't need psychoanalysis and you can stop wasting that money on Prozac (this is not a medical opinion; do not stop taking your medication if you are crazy—not until your physician confirms that Spurgeon has kicked in).
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