Historical Writings

  • Your Own Salvation

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 30th, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Your own salvation."–Philippians 2:12. WE SELECT THE WORDS, "your own salvation," as our text this morning, not out of any singularity, or from the slightest wish that the brevity of the text should surprise you; but because our subject…

  • Now, and Then

    Delivered by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face."–1 Corinthians 13:12. IN THIS CHAPTER the apostle Paul has spoken in the highest terms of charity or love. He accounts it to be a grace far more excellent than any of the…

  • Altogether Lovely

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 23rd, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "Yea, he is altogether lovely."–Song of Solomon 5:16. WHEN THE OLD PURITAN MINISTER had delivered his discourse, and dwelt upon firstly, and secondly, and thirdly, and perhaps upon twenty-fifthly, before he sat down he usually gave a comprehensive summary…

  • More and More

    Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, July 2nd, 1871, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington "But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more."–Psalm 71:14. WHEN sin conquered the realm of manhood, it slew all the minstrels except those of the race of Hope. For humanity, amid all its sorrows…