Charles Spurgeon's "Morning & Evening" Devotional: June 1st Morning “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1:1-15 In the book of Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher, Solomon has left us his own biography, the progress of a seeker after pleasure, the history of Solomon the prodigal, written by Solomon the preacher. He gives us in the first chapter not only the preface of the book, but the keynote of its sad contents, for it has well been styled the saddest book in all the Bible. Ecclesiastes 1:2 Thus speaks Solomon the sage, but we love better to hear the voice of Solomon the saint, for he said, “Thy love is better than wine. He brought me into his banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love.” How dark are the forbidden ways! How sweet the roads of holy fellowship! Ecclesiastes 1:3-11 “As much as if he said, It is all a weary go-round. This system of things is a perpetual self-repetition quite sickening. One generation goes, another comes. The sun rises, an...