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Lectures to My Students

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Preface to the First Series

The Minister’s Self-Watch

The Preacher’s Private Prayer

The Call to the Ministry

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

Preface to the Second Series

Illustrations in Preaching

Anecdotes from the Pulpit

The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations

Where Can We Find Anecdotes and Illustrations?

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, Etc.

Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc. (Second Lecture)

Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance

The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear

On Conversion as Our Aim

The Sciences as Sources of Illustration

Source & rights

Original C. H. Spurgeon-era work; public domain in the United States. Modern site editorial material is not imported.

Source: The Spurgeon Library