I fear lest in any of you there should be even the least measure of despising the one lost sheep because of the large and
philosophical methods which are now so loudly advocated. I would not have you exchange the gold of individual
Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism. If the wanderers are to be brought in, in vast numbers, as I pray
they may be, yet must it be accomplished by the bringing of them in one by one. To attempt national regeneration
without personal regeneration is to dream of erecting a house without separate bricks. In the vain attempt to work in the
gross, we may miss the practical result which would have followed working in detail. Let us settle it in our minds that we
cannot do better than obey the example of our Lord Jesus given us in the text and go after the one sheep which has gone
astray.
~Spurgeon, "One Lost Sheep", April 28, 1889
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