Historical Writings

  • More and More, or Less and Less

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "For whoever has, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whoever has not, from him shall be taken away even what he has." Matthew 13:12. Two great general principles are conspicuous in the Gospel….

  • The Prophet Like Unto Moses

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "The Lord your God will raise up unto you a Prophet from the midst of you, of your brethren, like unto me; unto Him you shall hearken; according to all that you desired of the Lord your God in…

  • The Shame and Spitting

    Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July 27th, 1879, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting."–Isaiah 50:6. OF WHOM SPEAKETH THE PROPHET this? Of himself or of some other?…

  • The Withered Hand

    DELIVERED ON THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE NEWINGTON. "And, behold, there was a man which hadhis hand withered… Then says He to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other." Matthew 12:10,13. NOTE well the…

  • Our Motto

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "With goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men." Ephesians 6:7. THIS sentence was expressly addressed, in the first place, to "servants," which term includes and, first of all intends, those who unhappily were slaves. There…

  • The Present Crisis

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1879, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "I will go and return to My place, till they acknowledge their offense, and seek My face: in their affliction they will seek Me early." Hosea 5:15. THE Lord does not always tell us what He will do. "Verily…