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John Calvin:"I have had no other purpose than to benefit the church by maintaining the pure doctrine of godliness.  Yet I think that there is no one who is assailed, bitten and wounded by more false accusations than I."George Whitefield:"Because Whitefield would not (leave the church of England), the Associate Presbytery vilified him in 1742 in a pamphlet entitled The Declarations, Protestation, and Testimony of the Suffering Remnant of the Anti-Popish, Anti-Lutheran, Anti-Prelactic, Anti-Whitefieldian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland. In it they charged that 'Whitefield's foul prelactic, sectarian hands' had administered the sacraments to Presbyterians and stated that Whitefield 'is not of a blameless conversation... but is a scandalous idolater... a limb of anti-Christ; a boar, and a wild beast...'"William Carey"Pioneer missionary, William Carey, and his co-workers, were belittled as "fools, madmen, tinkers, Calvinists and schismatics!". Their preaching was stereotyped as "puritanical rant of the worst kind." (William Carey, S. Pearce Carey, 1923). The Edinburgh Review editorialised: "We see not the slightest prospect of success; we see much danger in making the attempt."Mother Teresa:(I know Mother Teresa..."which one of these is not like the other..." but the point...criticism)(Found on Wikipedia)"Christopher Hitchens wrote that Mother Teresa's own words on poverty proved that "her intention was not to help people." Hitchens further alleged that Mother Teresa lied to donors about what their contributions were to be used for. In 1994, Hitchens published an article in The Nation entitled "The Ghoul of Calcutta". Dr. Aroup Chatterjee, the author of "Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict" (2003), asserted that the public image of Mother Teresa as a helper of the poor, the sick, and the dying was misleading and overstated; he maintains the number of people who are served by even the largest of the homes is not nearly as large as westerners are led to believe. [1] Hitchens was the only witness called by the Vatican to give evidence against Mother Teresa's beatification and canonization process, as the Vatican had abolished the traditional "Devil's Advocate" role that filled a similar purpose.[8]"Charles Spurgeon:John Piper writes of Charles Spurgeon,"...he knew the whole range of adversity that most preachers suffer-and a lot more. This point deserves some elaboration.Spurgeon knew the everyday, homegrown variety of frustration and disappointment which every pastor experiences from luke-warm church members.You know what one cold-hearted man can do, if he gets at you on Sunday morning with a lump of ice, and freezes you with the information that Mrs. Smith and all her family are offended, and their pew is vacant. You did not want to know of that lady's protest just before entering the pulpit, and it does not help you.[32]Perhaps even worse are those occasions when frustration is provoked after the service.What terrible blankets some professors are! Their remarks after a sermon are enough to stagger you....You have been pleading as for life or death and they have been calculating how many seconds the sermon occupied, and grudging you the odd five minutes beyond the usual hour.[33]...Spurgeon had to endure a life time of public ridicule and slander, sometimes of the most vicious kind. In April 1855 the Essex Standard carried an article with these words:His style is that of the vulgar colloquial, varied by rant....All the most solemn mysteries of our holy religion are by him rudely, roughly and impiously handled. Common sense is outraged and decency disgusted. His rantings are interspersed with coarse anecdotes.[39]The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent said,He is a nine days' wonder-a comet that has suddenly shot across the religious atmosphere. He has gone up like a rocket and ere long will come down like a stick.[40]His wife kept a bulging scrapbook of such criticisms from the years 1855-56. Some of it was easy to brush off. Most of it wasn't. In 1857 he wrote:Down on my knees have I often fallen, with the hot sweat rising from my brow under some fresh slander poured upon me; in an agony of grief my heart has been well-nigh broken.[41]His fellow ministers criticized from the right and from the left. Across town, from the left, Joseph Parker wrote,Mr. Spurgeon was absolutely destitute of intellectual benevolence. If men saw as he did they were orthodox; if they saw things in some other way they were heterodox, pestilent and unfit to lead the minds of students or inquirers. Mr. Spurgeon's was a superlative egotism; not the shilly-shallying, timid, half-disguised egotism that cuts off its own head, but the full-grown, over-powering, sublime egotism that takes the chief seat as if by right. The only colors which Mr. Spurgeon recognized were black and white.[42]And from the right James Wells, the hyper-Calvinist, wrote, "I have-most solemnly have-my doubts as to the Divine reality of his conversion."[43]All the embattlements of his life came to climax in the Downgrade Controversy as Spurgeon fought unsuccessfully for the doctrinal integrity of the Baptist Union. In October 1887 he withdrew from the Union. And the following January he was officially and publicly censured by a vote of the Union for his manner of protest.[44]Eight years earlier he had said,Men cannot say anything worse of me than they have said. I have been belied from head to foot, and misrepresented to the last degree. My good looks are gone, and none can damage me much now.[45]He gives an example of the kinds of distortions and misrepresentations that were typical in the Downgrade Controversy:The doctrine of eternal punishment has been scarcely raised by me in this controversy; but the `modern thought' advocates continue to hold it up on all occasions, all the while turning the wrong side of it outwards.[46]But even though he usually sounded rough and ready, the pain was overwhelming and deadly. In May of 1891 eight months before he died he said to a friend, "Good-bye; you will never see me again. This fight is killing me."[47]The final adversity to be considered was the result of all the others-Spurgeon's recurrent battles with depression.It is not easy to imagine the omni-competent, eloquent, brilliant, full-of-energy Spurgeon weeping like a baby for no reason that he could think of. In 1858, at age 24, it happened for the first time. He said, "My spirits were sunken so low that I could weep by the hour like a child, and yet I knew not what I wept for."[48]Causeless depression cannot be reasoned with, nor can David's harp charm it away by sweet discoursings. As well fight with the mist as with this shapeless, undefinable, yet all-beclouding hopelessness....The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back[49]He saw his depression as his "worst feature." "Despondency," he said, "is not a virtue; I believe it is a vice. I am heartily ashamed of myself for falling into it, but I am sure there is no remedy for it like a holy faith in God."[50]"