Historical Writings

  • My Hourly Prayer

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1882, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Hold You me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto Your statutes continually." Psalm 119:117. "HOLD You me up." This is no novelty as a prayer. We have met with it many a time….

  • My Solace in My Affliction

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Forever, O Lord, Your Word is settled in Heaven. Your faithfulness is unto all generations: You have established the earth and it abides. They continue this day according to Your ordinances: for all are Your servants. Unless Your Law had been my delights, I should…

  • The Blessed Guest Detained

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1882, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Then they drew near unto the village where they were going, and He made as though He would have gone further. But they constrained Him, saying, Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far…

  • “At Your Word”

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 16, 1882, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And Simon answering said unto Him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net." Luke 5:5. How very much may simple obedience partake of the sublime!…

  • The Singing Pilgrim

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." Psalm 119:54. THE 119th Psalm is said, by many, to consist of detached sentences and to be rather a casket of gold rings than a chain of united golden links, yet the position…