Spurgeon used often to say that the best way to get a hungry man to eat a dinner is to put a dinner on the table before him. Around the Wicket Gate is another volume with the same intent. Already in the chapter about the college, the nine volumes for students have been mentioned, and another, issued against Mr. Spurgeon's will by another house, entitled The Pastor in Prayer , is very choice. Mr. Spurgeon's prayers were in later years always reported for his own use, but he steadfastly refused to publish them. Here are twenty-six that have escaped from their prison.
Prayers suggest hymns.
There are others, less well known, that yet attain a high standard of excellence. Faithful, but meekly kind, Gentle, yet boldly true, I would possess the perfect mind Which in my Lord I view. Create them all in me. A number of booklets by Spurgeon have also been issued. Perhaps The Greatest Fight in the World , his last conference address, published in the form made familiar to us by Henry Drummond, has had the largest circulation.