Historical Writings

  • Prayer Answered, Love Nourished

    Prayer Answered, Love Nourished A Sermon (No. 240) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 27th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplication."–Psalm 116:1. IN the Christian pilgrimage it is well for the most part to be looking…

  • Jacob and Esau

    Jacob and Esau A Sermon (No. 239) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 16th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."–Romans 9:15. DO NOT IMAGINE for an instant that I pretend to be able thoroughly to elucidate the great mysteries of predestination….

  • Reform

    Reform A Sermon (No. 238) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 13th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw…

  • Hypocrisy

    Hypocrisy A Sermon (No. 237) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 6th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."–Luke 12:1. This age is full of shams. Pretence never stood in so eminent a position as it does at the…

  • The Shameful Sufferer

    The Shameful Sufferer A Sermon (No. 236) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 30th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God."–Hebrews…

  • The Fainting Warrior

    The Fainting Warrior A Sermon (No. 235) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 23rd, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "O wretched man that I am I who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord."–Romans 7:24, 25. IF I…