Historical Writings

  • Heaven’s Nurse Children

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms."–Hosea 11:3. IF you note well the opening part of this chapter, you will find that it consists of a wonderful chain of mercies; every one single line is a rare jewel, and the whole…

  • Household Salvation

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, November 5th, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes, and was baptized, he and all his,…

  • Pleading

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 29th, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying."–Psalm 70:5 YOUNG painters were anxious, in olden times, to study under the great masters. They…

  • The Talking Book

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 22nd, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "When thou awakest, it shall talk with thee"–Proverbs 6:22. IT IS A VERY HAPPY CIRCUMSTANCE when the commandment of our father and the law of our mother are also the commandment of God and the law of the Lord….

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he…