Year: 1859

The Sermons of Spurgeon.


The following extracts from the f tn
volume of Surgeons sermons which has
been recently published, will convey
some idea of the style and habits Of
thought of this noted preacher.


And what means all the perplexing
researches of certain persons into the
prophecies consider very often that
tine infcrences drawn from prophecy are
very little better, after all, than the gres
ses of the Norwood gipsey, and that
some people, who have been so busy in
foretelling the end of the world. would
have been bette, employed if they had
foretold the end Of their own books, and
had not imposed on the public by pre-
diclions, assaying TO interpret the prophe-
When you are on dry land. most Of you
are good sailors; out to sea you are vast
ly different There is many man who
makes wonderfully brave soldier till
he gets into the battle, and then he wish
es himself miles away. and except his
spurs there is no weapon he can use with
much advantage.


have heard of some divine, of very
hyper school indeed, who said, 'Ah !!
blessed be the Lord. there are some of
Gods dear people here; can tell them
by the very look of their faces: know
that they are among Gods elect He
was not half so discreet as Rowland Hill,
who when he was advised to preach to
none but the elect, said, 'Iie would Ger
tainly do SO if some one would chalk
them all on the back first" That was
never attempted by anybody; so Row
land Hill went on preaching the Gospel
to every creature, as desire to do.


We have all our tender point. When
Thetis dipped Achilles in the Styx. you
remember she held him by the heel; he
was made invulucrable wherever the water
touched him, but his l. eel not being COW
cred with the water. was vulnerable, and
there Paris shot his arrow, and he died.
It's even SO with US. We may think that
we are covered with virtue till we are
totally invulnerable, but we have heel
somewhere; there is place where the ar.
row of the Devil can make way ;hence the
absolute necessity of taking to ourselves
the whole armour of Cod so that there
may not be solitary joint in the harness
that shall be unprotected against the ar.
rows of the devil. Satan is very crafty
he knows the ins and outs of manhood


But all these things are nothing, com.
pared with the incarnation Of the Son Of
God, | do believe that the very angel.
have never wondered but once, and tina
has been incessantly ever since they frs
beheld it. They never cease to tel thu
astonishing story. and to tell it with in
creasing astonishment too, that Jesus
Christ, the Son Of God, was born Of ,h'
Virgin Mary, and became man. Is h'
not rightly called Wonderful? Intimate
and an infant-eternal, and yet born o
a woman-Almighty, and yet hangin:
on woman's breast-supporting th'
universe, and yet needing to to be, car
ried in mothers arms King ofangel
and yet the renuted son of Joseph-hei
of all things, and yet the carpenters de
iSplSeu soH.


" omen suffer, and suffer we'll; but
do think there are very few men wit
could bear the tithe of the suffering tha
many women endure, without exhibitin;
a hundred times as much impatience.-
Most of us who are gifted with stron;
constitutions, and have but little Of sick
ness, have to chasten ourselves, tina
what little sickness we have 10 content
with is borne with so little resignation
and with SO much impatience; that w
are so ready to repine, 50 prepared tobov
our heads and wish We were dead, be
cause little pain is rending our body
Here it is that we prove our weakness
indeed. All! people of God, it is ont
thing to talk about the furnace; it moth
er thing to be in it. 1t is one thing t,
look at the doctors knife, but quit,
another thing to feel it.


Do you not see him in the black eter
nifty? When there was nothing but grin
darkness, there he stood--the mighty
Artifcer; upon the anvil there he cast
, hot mass of flame, and hammering i
with his own ponderous arm, each sparl
that few from it made a world; ther,
those sparks are glittering now, the off
springs of the anvil Of eternal purro
ses, and the hammer Of his own majestic
might. And shall he. that created th
world, grow weary Shall be fail : Shal
be break his promises for want o
strength He hangeth the world upo'
nothing; he fixed the pillars of HEAVIER
in silver sockets otlight, and Thereon
he hung the golden lamps. the sun an'
the moon; and shall he that did all thi
be unable to support his children : Sha
he be unfaithful to his word for want o
tpower in his arm or strength in his will