Lectures to My Students

Addresses delivered to the students of the Pastors’ College at the Metropolitan Tabernacle — Spurgeon’s counsel on the minister’s life and work.

Up: Charles Spurgeon

Volume 1 — First Series

1. The Minister’s Self-watch
2. The Call to the Ministry
3. The Preacher’s Private Prayer
4. Our Public Prayer
5. Sermons — Their Matter
6. On the Choice of the Text
7. On Spiritualizing
8. On the Voice
9. Attention!
10. The Faculty of Impromptu Speech
11. The Minister’s Fainting Fits
12. The Minister’s Ordinary Conversation
13. To Workers with Slender Apparatus

Volume 2 — The Art of Illustration

1. Illustrations in Preaching
2. Anecdotes from the Pulpit
3. The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations
4. Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustration?
5. Cyclopaedias of Anecdotes and Illustrations
6. Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables
7. The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

Volume 3 — Second Series

1. The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry
2. Necessity of Ministerial Progress
3. The Need of Decision for the Truth
4. Open Air Preaching and its History
5. Open Air Preaching — Remarks Thereon
6. Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc
7. Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc
8. Earnestness: its Marring and Maintenance
9. The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear
10. On Conversion as Our Aim