Historical Writings

  • Noah’s Flood

    Noah's Flood A Sermon (No. 823) Delivered on thursday evening, march 5, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [33]Metropolitan Ttabernacle, Newington. "The flood came and took them all away." Matthew 24:39. WE commonly say that "there is no rule without an exception," and certainly the rule that there is no rule without an exception…

  • The Panting Deer

    The Panting Deer A Sermon (No. 822) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July 20, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [32]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "As the deerpants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God." Psalm 42:1. THERE is something to be lamented in this state of mind, for if the Psalmist…

  • Hope in Hopeless Cases

    Hope in Hopeless Cases A Sermon (No. 821) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July 19, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [31]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "Bring him here to Me." Matthew 17:17. OUR real text will be the entire narrative, but as it seems necessary to select some one sentence, we have chosen that before us…

  • Working Out What is Worked In

    Working Out What is Worked In A Sermon (No. 820) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, July 12, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [30]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure." Philippians 2:12,13….

  • The Minstrelsy of Hope

    The Minstrelsy of Hope A Sermon (No. 819) Delivered on Lord's Day Morning, July 5, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [29]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "God, even our own God, shall bless us. God shall bless us." Psalm 67:6, 7. "GOD, even our own God." What an exceedingly sweet title! What a loveliness and liveliness…

  • The Pleiades and Orion

    The Pleiades and Orion A Sermon (No. 818) Delivered on Lord's-Day Morning, June 28, 1868, by C. H. SPURGEON, at the [28]Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. "Can you bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" Job 38:31. MOST of you know that singularly beautiful cluster of stars called the Pleiades–very small, but…