Lectures to My Students [Annotated, Updated]: Practical and Spiritual Guidance for Preachers

Lectures to My Students #3

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Volume 2:

Illustrations in Preaching
Anecdotes from the Pulpit
The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations
Where can we find Anecdotes and Illustrations?
Cyclopaedias of Anecdotes and Illustrations
Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables
The Sciences as Sources of Illustration. ASTRONOMY
Supplemental. List of Books of Anecdotes, Illustrations, etc.
List of Mr. Spurgeon's Illustrative Works

THE lectures of which this volume is composed were delivered the Pastors’ College, in the rear of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and, therefore, we take the liberty to notice that Institution in these pages. To make the College known, and to win for it willing friends, is confessedly one object of our publications upon the ministry, which may, indeed, be viewed as merely the giving forth to a wider area the instruction carried on within the College walls.
The Institution is intended to aid useful preachers in obtaining a better education. It takes no man to make him a minister, but requires that its pupils should, as a rule, have exercised their gifts for at least two years, and have won souls to Jesus. ‘These we receive, however poor or backward they may be, and our endeavors are all directed to the one aim that they should be instructed in the things of God, furnished for their work, and practiced in the gift of utterance. Much prayer is made by the Church in the Tabernacle that this end may be accomplished, nor has the prayer been in vain, for some 365 men who were trained in this manner are now declaring the gospel of Jesus. Besides the students for the regular ministry, several hundreds of street preachers, city missionaries, teachers, and workers of all kinds have passed through our Evening Classes, and more than 200 men are now with us, pursuing their callings by day and studying in the evening. We ask for much prayer from all our brethren, that the supply of the Spirit may sanctify the teaching, and anoint every worker for the service of the Lord.

Genres: Christian

249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 18, 2010

About the author

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian, John Gill). The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues, Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000—all in the days before electronic amplification. In 1861, the congregation moved permanently to the newly constructed Metropolitan Tabernacle.

Reviews

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 5 out of 5]

well, these 3 volumes not that systematic for these are sermons, but we ought to learn many things from the author as a legendary preacher. this book more on the art of preaching, and specifically on the used of anecdotes. the anecdotes maybe seems old enough, but some also an interesting one to be come back alive again in this modern times.

[Ronnie Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plenty to glean from here. Not as informative as the first two volumes but certainly not a waste of your time. Looking forward to Volume 4.