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Book Description<\/h2>\n

While C.H. Spurgeon is still remembered as being the most popular preacher of the Victorian era, it has generally been forgotten that the influence he exercised on fellow ministers and theological students was possibly an even greater factor in his life than his own personal ministry. That he organized a college, supervised the training of some 845 students, presided at an annual conference of ministers, and regarded all this as his ‘life’s labour and delight’ are facts that are little known today.<\/p>\n

Spurgeon’s Lectures to my Students<\/em>, contain the substance of Spurgeon’s regular Friday afternoon addresses to the college students. This new complete and unabridged Banner edition, which as been newly typeset, contains all the lectures in the original first and second series, including The\u00a0Minister’s Self-Watch, The Preacher’s Private Prayer, The Minister’s Fainting Fits, The Holy Spirit in Connection with our Ministry, The Need of Decision for the Truth<\/em>, and On Conversion as our Aim<\/em>. Also included is a third series of lectures, originally published as The Art of Illustration<\/em>, which focuses on the nature, use, and sources of illustrations and anecdotes in preaching. To make this new edition as complete as possible, the publishers have also included Spurgeon’s Commenting and Commentaries<\/em>, which contains two further lectures and a fascinating and often humorously annotated catalogue of commentaries. This catalogue, compiled by Spurgeon after a review of some three to four thousand volumes, is anything but dull: calculated to produce enthusiasts for books, it also opens up a new world by its well placed signposts to the riches of the past.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents Expand \u2193<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/td>\nPublisher\u2019s Note<\/td>\nvii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFIRST SERIES<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Pastors\u2019 College<\/td>\nxiii<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIntroduction and Apology<\/td>\nxv<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nThe Minister\u2019s Self-Watch<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nThe Call to the Ministry<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nThe Preacher\u2019s Private Prayer<\/td>\n42<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nOur Public Prayer<\/td>\n55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nSermons \u2013 Their Matter<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nOn the Choice of a Text<\/td>\n89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nOn Spiritualizing<\/td>\n109<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nOn the Voice<\/td>\n125<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nAttention!<\/td>\n146<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nThe Faculty of Impromptu Speech<\/td>\n162<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nThe Minister\u2019s Fainting Fits<\/td>\n179<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\nThe Minister\u2019s Ordinary Conversation<\/td>\n193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nTo Workers with Slender Apparatus<\/td>\n204<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSECOND SERIES<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIntroduction<\/td>\n219<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nThe Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry<\/td>\n223<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nThe Necessity of Ministerial Progress<\/td>\n247<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nThe Need of Decision for the Truth<\/td>\n264<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nOpen-Air Preaching \u2013 A Sketch of Its History<\/td>\n280<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nOpen-Air Preaching \u2013 Remarks Thereon<\/td>\n303<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nPosture, Action, Gesture, etc \u2013 First Lecture<\/td>\n324<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nPosture, Action, Gesture, etc \u2013 Second Lecture<\/td>\n347<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nEarnestness \u2013 Its Marring and Maintenance<\/td>\n374<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nThe Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear<\/td>\n394<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nOn Conversion as Our Aim<\/td>\n412<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nTHIRD SERIES:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Art of Illustration<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIntroductory Notes<\/td>\n429<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nIllustrations in Preaching<\/td>\n433<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nAnecdotes from the Pulpit<\/td>\n448<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nThe Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations<\/td>\n468<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nWhere Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?<\/td>\n492<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCyclop\u00e6dias of Anecdotes and Illustrations<\/td>\n510<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nBooks of Fables, Emblems, and Parables<\/td>\n534<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nThe Sciences as Sources of Illustration \u2013 Astronomy<\/td>\n599<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAppendix a: Reviews of Books of Anecdotes, etc<\/td>\n636<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAppendix b: List of C H Spurgeon\u2019s Illustrative Works<\/td>\n649<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nCOMMENTING & COMMENTARIES<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nPreface<\/td>\n653<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nThe Pastors\u2019 College<\/td>\n657<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nA Chat about Commentaries<\/td>\n659<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nOn Commenting<\/td>\n680<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nRemarks upon the Catalogue of Commentaries<\/td>\n693<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nCatalogue of Biblical Commentaries and Expositions<\/td>\n695<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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