Lectures to My Students

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C. H. Spurgeon

Category Church & Ministry

Lectures to My Students by Charles Spurgeon

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Weight	2.58 lbs
Dimensions	8.8 × 5.75 × 2.1 in
ISBN	9780851519661
Binding	Cloth-bound, eBook (ePub & Kindle), Cloth-bound & eBook (ePub & Kindle)
Topic	Pastoral Theology/Pastoral Helps
Original Pub Date	1875
Banner Pub Date	Aug 1, 2008
Page Count	928
Format	Book

Book Description

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.

Spurgeon’s Lectures to my Students, contain the substance of Spurgeon’s regular Friday afternoon addresses to the college students. This new complete and unabridged Banner edition, which features a modern typeset, contains all the lectures in the original first and second series, including The Minister’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, and On Conversion as our Aim. Also included is a third series of lectures, originally published as The Art of Illustration, 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, 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.

Included in this volume:

First Series: Lectures to My Students
Second Series: Lectures to My Students
Third Series: The Art of Illustration
Commenting & Commentaries

Table of Contents Expand ↓

	Publisher’s Note	vii
	FIRST SERIES
	The Pastors’ College	xiii
	Introduction and Apology	xv
1	The Minister’s Self-Watch	1
2	The Call to the Ministry	19
3	The Preacher’s Private Prayer	42
4	Our Public Prayer	55
5	Sermons – Their Matter	76
6	On the Choice of a Text	89
7	On Spiritualizing	109
8	On the Voice	125
9	Attention!	146
10	The Faculty of Impromptu Speech	162
11	The Minister’s Fainting Fits	179
12	The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation	193
13	To Workers with Slender Apparatus	204
	SECOND SERIES
	Introduction	219
1	The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry	223
2	The Necessity of Ministerial Progress	247
3	The Need of Decision for the Truth	264
4	Open-Air Preaching – A Sketch of Its History	280
5	Open-Air Preaching – Remarks Thereon	303
6	Posture, Action, Gesture, etc – First Lecture	324
7	Posture, Action, Gesture, etc – Second Lecture	347
8	Earnestness – Its Marring and Maintenance	374
9	The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear	394
10	On Conversion as Our Aim	412
	THIRD SERIES:
	The Art of Illustration
	Introductory Notes	429
1	Illustrations in Preaching	433
2	Anecdotes from the Pulpit	448
3	The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations	468
4	Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?	492
5	Cyclopædias of Anecdotes and Illustrations	510
6	Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables	534
7	The Sciences as Sources of Illustration – Astronomy	599
	Appendix a: Reviews of Books of Anecdotes, etc	636
	Appendix b: List of C H Spurgeon’s Illustrative Works	649
	COMMENTING & COMMENTARIES
	Preface	653
	The Pastors’ College	657
1	A Chat about Commentaries	659
2	On Commenting	680
3	Remarks upon the Catalogue of Commentaries	693
4	Catalogue of Biblical Commentaries and Expositions	695

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Aimee – March 30, 2015

Spurgeon seems to be able to think of and tackle every single issue and mind set of both laymen and ministers. He brings conviction, blessing and humour in this volume. Its over 900 pages but every single page is nothing short of a deep well of wisdom. This book i would recommend most to the young man being called to Ministry and who has been given clear gifts from the Holy Spirit. Spurgeon will fan the flames of your Christian life and bring you into a wonderful world of knowledge with Christ at its centre and core.
Robert Norman – September 17, 2018

Fantastic book on preaching that every preacher must read. It only falls by the way-side with Spurgeon’s over vivid use of analogy in preaching. Should that not cause too much concern, then this is a book which could rival Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ Preaching and Preachers.