To Dr. James Culross, president of the Union, Spurgeon wrote, I have followed out our Lord's mind as to private remonstrances by seeing Presidents and Secretary on former occasions, and I have written my remonstrances again and again without avail. I had no course but to withdraw. Surely, no sane person thinks that I should have made a tour to deal with the individual errorists. I have no jurisdiction over them, and should have been regarded as offensively intrusive if I had gone to them; and justly so. My question is with the Union, and with that alone. I have dealt with it all along. <i>my thoughts: Spurgeon was defending his resignation from the Baptist Union very well against a charge which arises too often today--an attempt to distract from the real issue by a spurious appeal to Matthew 18. He had talked with the leaders with whom he was in relationship and was under no obligation to go to those he had a theological complaint against (nor was it reasonable for him to do so).</i>