Historical Writings

  • The Peacemaker

    The Peacemaker DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." Matthew 5:9. THIS is the seventh of the beatitudes. There is a mystery always connected with the number seven. It was the…

  • It Is Finished!

    Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit "IT IS FINISHED!" A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished: and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. MY Brethren, I would have…

  • Abram And The Ravenous Birds

    Abram And The Ravenous Birds A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "But when the fowls came do wn upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away." Genesis 15:11. WE might use this text, if we chose, as a picture of the ease…

  • The Roaring Lion

    The Roaring Lion A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are…

  • Bread For The Hungry

    Bread For The Hungry A SERMON DELIVERED ON SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1861, BY THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. "And He humbled you and suffered you to hunger and fed you with manna, which you knew not neither did your fathers know; that He might make you know that man…