Lectures to my students : a selection from addresses delivered to the students of the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle / [print]
by C.H. Spurgeon.
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Book House, (c)1977. Peabody, Massachusetts : Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, (c) 2011.
- vi, 200, vi, 192, vi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
One-volume paperback edition of Lectures to my students, first series, second series, and third series. Reprinted from editions. issued in England in 1875, 1877, and 1894.
VOLUME ONE: LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS -- The minister's self-watch -- The call to the ministry -- The preacher's private prayer -- Our public prayer -- Sermons - their matter -- On the choice of a text -- On spiritualizing -- On the voice -- Attention! -- The faculty of impromptu speech -- The minister's fainting fits -- The minister's ordinary conversation -- To workers with slender apparatus. SECOND SERIES OF LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS -- The Holy Spirit in connection with our ministry -- The necessity of ministerial progress -- The need of decision for the truth -- Open-air preaching - A sketch of its history -- Open-air preaching - Remarks thereon -- Posture, action, gesture, et cetera -- Posture, action, gesture, et cetera (second lecture) -- Illustrations of action -- Earnestness: Its marring and maintenance -- The blind eye and the deaf ear -- On conversion as our aim. THIRD SERIES OF LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS: THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION -- 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. LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS: COMMENTING AND COMMENTARIES -- A chat about commentaries -- On commenting.
"LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS" were talks given to pastors studying in Spurgeon's College and are full of his passion, wit and wisdom. It has been said that these Lectures were possibly Spurgeon's "greatest single contribution to the Christian world. There is more practical wisdom, common sense and sage advice packed within these pages than with any other book of similar size or content."