Historical Writings

  • The One Thing Needful

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 15th, 1871 by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "But one thing is needful."–Luke 10:42. WE HAVE no difficulty whatever in deciding what the one thing is. We are not allowed to say that it is the Saviour, for he is not a thing; and we are not…

  • “Nunc Dimittis”

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 8th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation."–Luke 2:29-30. BLESSED WERT THOU, O Simeon, for flesh and blood had not revealed this unto thee; neither had it…

  • Our Watchword

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, October 1st, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified."–Psalm 70:4. THESE WORDS OCCUR at least three times in the book of Psalms, and therefore we may regard them as especially important. When God speaks once, twice,…

  • Job’s Regret and Our Own

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 17th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me when his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness; as I was in the days of…