Historical Writings

  • Travailing for Souls

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, September 3rd, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."–Isaiah 66:8. ISRAEL had fallen into the lowest condition, but an inward yearning of heart was felt in the midst of God's people for the return of the divine blessing;…

  • Love’s Logic

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 27th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "We love him because he first loved us."–1 John 4:19. THIS is a great doctrinal truth, and I might with much propriety preach a doctrinal sermon from it, of which the sum and substance would be the sovereign grace…

  • North and South

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, keep not back."–Isaiah 43:6. IN THE FULLNESS of the promised days when the Jews shall be restored from their wanderings, and all the seed of Jacob shall again meet in their own land,…

  • Christ Is All

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 20th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Christ is all in all."–Colossians 3:11. THE APOSTLE WAS ARGUING for holiness. He was earnestly contending against sin and for the maintenance of Christian graces, but he did not, as some do, who would like to be thought preachers…

  • Lessons From Nature

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 13th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and the rooks for the conies."–Psalm 104:17-18. THIS PSALM IS ALL through a…

  • “Bought with a Price”

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 6th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."–1 Corinthians 6:19-20. OUR BELOVED BROTHER, Thomas Cook, who has for so long a time…