Historical Writings

  • Limiting God

    Limiting God A Sermon (No. 272) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 28th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "They limited the Holy One of Israel,"–Psalm 78:41. MAN IS ALWAYS ALTERING what God has ordained. Although God's order is ever the best, yet man will never agree therewith. When…

  • Faith Illustrated

    Faith Illustrated A Sermon (No. 271) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 21st, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep…

  • The Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the New Tabernacle

    On Tuesday, August 16th, 1859. (No. 268-270) PRECISELY at two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. SPURGEON, accompanied by Sir MORTON PETO, Bert., M.P., and other friends, ascended the temporary platform erected around the stone; and the proceedings shortly after commenced by singing the hundredth Psalm:– Before Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations bow with sacred joy;…

  • The Tabernacle of the Most High

    The Tabernacle of the Most High A Sermon (No. 267) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 14th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit."–Ephesians 2:22. UNDER THE OLD Mosaic dispensation God had a visible dwelling-place…

  • The Blind Beggar

    The Blind Beggar A Sermon (No. 266) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 7th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by…

  • The Meek and Lowly One

    The Meek and Lowly One A Sermon (No. 265) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, July 31st, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for…