A Sermon DELIVERED ON SABBATH MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1856, BY THE REV C. H. SPURGEON, AT NEW PARK STREET CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. “Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.”—Proverbs 18:12. ALMOST every event has its prophetic prelude. It is an old and common saying, that “coming events cast their shadows before them;” the wise man teaches us the same lesson in the verse before us. When destruction walks through the land, it casts its shadow; it is in