Zeal for souls – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal for souls – Charles Spurgeon A TRAVELLER was journeying in the darkness of night along a road that led to a deep and rapid river, which, swollen by sudden rains, was chafing and roaring within its pre- captious banks. The bridge that crossed the stream had been swept away by the torrent, but he […]
Zeal — Causing entity – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal — Causing entity – Charles Spurgeon There was a blacksmith once who had two pieces of iron which he wished to weld into one, and he took them just as they were, all cold and hard, and put them on the anvil, and began to hammer with all his might, but they were two […]
Zeal – the cross – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal – the cross – Charles Spurgeon When the Spartans marched into battle they advanced with cheerful songs, willing to fight; but when the Persians entered the conflict, you could hear, as the regiments came on, the crack of whips by which the officers drove the cowards to the fray. You need not wonder that […]
Zeal – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal – Charles Spurgeon Humboldt, in his travels, observes, “It seems remarkable that in the hottest as well as the coldest climates, people display the same predilection for heat. On the introduction of Christianity into Iceland, the inhabitants would be baptized only in the hot springs of Hecla; and in the torrid zone, in the […]
Zeal, Incentive to – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal, Incentive to – Charles Spurgeon IF this church do not serve God—mark these words, I speak, I think, prophetically—God will make this house a hissing, and write “Ichabod” upon these walls. Never was a church more favored than you have been. More than two hundred years God has given you a succession of faithful […]
Zeal in our Service for Christ – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal in our Service for Christ – Charles Spurgeon I KNOW that the most of you are diligent in business. You never hear the ring of a guinea without being on the alert to earn it if possible. Your coats are off, and very likely your shirt-sleeves are turned up when there is a chance […]
Zeal for Church Purity – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal for Church Purity – Charles Spurgeon WHEN the body gets a piece of rotten bone into it, it never rests, until, with pain, it casts out the dead thing: and so with the church; the church may be increased by dead members, but when she begins to get vigorous and full of life, her […]
Zeal, Exhortation to – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal, Exhortation to – Charles Spurgeon SHALL we ever forget Park Street, those prayer-meetings, when I felt compelled to let you go without a word from my lips, because the Spirit of God was so awfully present that we felt bowed to the dust, and any language of mine would have been a mere impertinence? […]
Zeal, Cloak of – Charles Spurgeon
Zeal, Cloak of – Charles Spurgeon THOUSANDS of our church members are locked in the deadly arms of an Arctic propriety. They are proper, very proper. They are always afraid of being fanatical, even more than of being worldly or backsliding. When religious work is being done in earnest, they say it is exciting and […]
Zoo Keeper
Zoo Keeper Zoo Keeper The visitor to the zoo noticed one of the keepers sobbing quietly in a corner and on inquiry was told that the elephant had died. “Fond of him, was he?” the visitor asked. “It’s not that,” came the reply. “He’s the chap who has to dig the grave.” Facebook Twitter […]