Historical Writings

  • Holy Longings

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1881, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "My soul breaks with longing for Your Judgments at all times." Psalm 119:20. ONE of the best tests of a man's character will be found in his deepest and heartiest longings. You cannot always judge a man by what…

  • Truthfulness

    DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "O Lord, are not Your eyes upon the truth?" Jeremiah 5:3. THE allusion is not to doctrinal Truth of God, or truth in the abstract, but to practical truth as it should exist in the hearts and lives of men. It might be read, "Lord,…

  • The Heroic In Christianity

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY-MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1881, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "For if you love them which love you, what credit is that to you? For sinners also love those that lo ve them. And if you do good to them which do good to you, what credit is that to…

  • The Fruit of the Spirit–Joy

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1881, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "But the fruit of the Spirit is joy." Galatians 5:22. OBSERVE, "the fruit of the Spirit," for the product of the Spirit of God is one. As some fruits are easily divisible into several parts, so you perceive that…