Historical Writings

  • Underneath

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1878, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Underneath are the everlasting arms." Deuteronomy 33:27. GOD surrounds His children on all sides–they dwell in Him. The passage before us shows that the Lord is above, for we read, "There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun,…

  • Where True Prayer is Found

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1878, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Therefore has Your servant found in his heart to pray this prayer to You." 2 Samuel 7:27. DAVID had first found it in his heart to build a house for God. Sitting in his house of cedar, he resolved…

  • Under Constraint

    DELIVERED ON LORD'S-DAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1878, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if One died for all, then were all dead." 2 Corinthians 5:14. THE Apostle and his brethren were unselfish in all that they did. He could say…

  • The Shortest of the Seven Cries

    Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, April 14th, 1878, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst."–John 19:28. IT was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved….