Faith Appropriating – Charles H Spurgeon
Faith Appropriating – Charles H Spurgeon I once heard a father tell, that when he removed his family to a new residence, where the accommodation was much more ample, and the substance much more rich and varied than that to which they had previously been accustomed, his youngest son, yet a lisping infant, ran round […]
Cuttle Fish Persons Who Resemble A – Charles H Spurgeon
Cuttle Fish Persons Who Resemble A – Charles H Spurgeon It was an old Pythagorean maxim, ‘Sepiam ne edito,’ ‘never eat the cuttle-fish.’ The cuttle-fish has the power of emitting a black liquid which dyes the water and enables it to conceal itself. Have nothing to do with those who darken all around them that […]
Covetousness Its Insidiousness – Charles H Spurgeon
Covetousness Its Insidiousness – Charles H Spurgeon Beware of growing covetousness, for of all sins this is one of the most insidious. It is like the stream of a river. As the stream comes down from the land, it brings with it sand and earth, and deposits these at its mouth, so that by degrees, […]
Covetousness – Charles H Spurgeon
Covetousness – Charles H Spurgeon Covetous men must be the sport of Satan, for their grasping avarice neither lets them enjoy life nor escape from the second death. They are held by their own greed as surely as beasts with cords, or fish with nets, or men with chains. They may be likened to those […]
Courage Strengthened By Past Deliverances – Charles H Spurgeon
Courage Strengthened By Past Deliverances – Charles H Spurgeon Sir Francis Drake, being in a dangerous storm in the Thames, was heard to say, ‘Must I who have escaped the rage of the ocean, be drowned in a ditch?’ Will you, experienced saints, who have passed through a world of tribulation lie down and die […]
Corruptions Vitality Of – Charles H Spurgeon
Corruptions Vitality Of – Charles H Spurgeon The yew tree appears to renew itself out of its own decay the decayed wood at the centre of an old yew is gradually formed into rich vegetable mould, and fresh verdure spring: from it. How like is this to our inward corruptions, which have a marvelous, vitality, […]
Corruptions Seen Even In Solitude – Charles H Spurgeon
Corruptions Seen Even In Solitude – Charles H Spurgeon George Shadfoed wrote:: ‘One day a friend took me to see a hermit in the woods. After some difficulty we found his hermitage, which was a little place like a hog-sty, built of several pieces of wood, covered with bark of trees, and his bed consisted […]
Corruptions Strengthened By Habit – Charles H Spurgeon
Corruptions Strengthened By Habit – Charles H Spurgeon In preparing places for planting new trees, the diggers found it needful in certain spots to lay aside the spade and use the pick-axe. In those positions there had been a well travelled carriage road, and hence it was hard to deal with it. How often, when […]
Corruptions Overcome Gradually – Charles H Spurgeon
Corruptions Overcome Gradually – Charles H Spurgeon When Sir Christopher Wren was engaged in demolishing the ruins of old St. Paul’s in order to make room for his new cathedral, he used a battering ram with which thirty men continued to beat upon a part of the wall for a whole day. The workmen, not […]
Corruptions Overcome By Grace – Charles H Spurgeon
Corruptions Overcome By Grace – Charles H Spurgeon My gardeners were removing a large tree which grew near a wall, and as it would weaken the wall to stub up the roots, it was agreed that the stump should remain in the ground. But how were we to prevent the stump from sprouting, and so […]