Spurgeon's Practical Wisdom: Plain Advice for Plain People

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Spurgeon, Charles H.

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9781848710511

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Banner of Truth

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Hardcover

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328

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It has sometimes been said that Christians are ‘too heavenly minded to be of any earthly use’. While that may apply to some, it could never be said of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Spurgeon combined heavenly mindedness with zeal to improve the lot of ordinary people. At the height of his ministry there were dozens of enterprises associated with his Metropolitan Tabernacle that served the spiritual and practical needs of men and women, boys and girls.

Although Spurgeon is best remembered as a gospel preacher, he was also a gifted writer. Under the not so well disguised pseudonym of ‘john Ploughman’, a wise old country farm worker, Spurgeon penned a number of humorous articles on topical subjects for his monthly magazine The Sword and the Trowel. ‘I have somewhat indulged the mirthful vein, but ever with so serious a purpose that I ask no forgiveness’, he wrote. In these articles he ‘aimed blows at the vices of the many’ and tried to inculcate ‘those moral virtues without which men are degraded.’ His efforts met with great success. When later published, John Ploughman’s Talk and John Ploughman’s Pictures were an instant hit with sales of these two volumes exceeding 600,000 in the author’s own lifetime. In homes throughout the length and breadth of Great Britain Spurgeon’s practical wisdom on subjects such as alcohol, debt, anger, temptation, cruelty, and the family home, were heeded and cherished. In the preface to John Ploughman’s Pictures, he was able to write: ‘John Ploughman’s Talk has not only obtained an immense circulation, but it has exercised an influence for good. Although its tone is rather moral than religious, it has led many to take the first steps by which men climb to better things.’

This fine edition of Spurgeon’s Practical Wisdom, which also includes all of the illustrations from the original two volumes, will surely enrich many a Christian home and be treasured by a new generation of readers.

Contents

	John Ploughman’s Talk
	Preface
	To the Idle
	On Religious Grumblers
	On the Preacher’s Appearance
	On Good Nature and Firmness
	On Patience
	On Gossips
	On Seizing Opportunities
	On Keeping One’s Eyes Open
	Thoughts about Thought
	Faults
	Things Not Worth Trying
	Debt
	Home
	Men Who Are Down
	Hope
	Spending
	A Good Word for Wives
	Men with Two Faces
	Hints As To Thriving
	Tall Talk
	Things I Would Not Choose
	Try
	Monuments
	Very Ignorant People
	If the Cap Fits Wear It
	Burn a Candle at Both Ends . . .
	Hunchback Sees Not His Own Hump . . .
	It Is Hard for an Empty Sack To Stand Upright
	He Who Would Please All Will Lose His Donkey
	All Are Not Hunters That Blow the Horn
	A Hand-saw Is a Good Thing, but Not To Shave with
	Don’t Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
	He Has a Hole under His Nose . . .
	Every Man Should Sweep before His Own Door
	Scant Feeding of Man or Horse . . .
	Never Stop the Plough to Catch a Mouse
	A Looking-glass Is of No Use to a Blind Man
	He has Got the Fiddle, but Not the Stick
	Great Cry and Little Wool . . .
	You May Bend the Sapling, but not the Tree
	A Man May Love His House . . .
	Great Drinkers Think Themselves Great Men
	Two Dogs Fight for a Bone . . .
	He Lives under the Sign of the Cat’s Foot
	He Would Put His Finger in the Pie . . .
	You Can’t Catch the Wind in a Net
	Beware of the Dog
	Like Cat like Kit
	A Horse which Carries a Halter is Soon Caught
	An Old Fox Is Shy of a Trap
	A Black Hen Lays a White Egg
	He Looks One Way and Pulls the Other
	Stick to It and Do It
	Don’t Put the Cart before the Horse
	A Leaking Tap is a Great Waster
	Fools Set Stools for Wise Men to Stumble Over
	A Man in a Passion Rides a Horse . . .
	Where the Plough Shall Fail To Go . . .
	All Is Lost that Is Poured into a Cracked Dish
	Grasp All and Lose All
	Scatter and Increase
	Every Bird Likes Its Own Nest

About the Author

C. H. Spurgeon (1834-92), the great Victorian preacher, was one of the most influential people of the second half of the 19th Century. He was a famous British preacher and pastor for 38 years of New Park Street Chapel, later called the Metropolitan Tabernacle. At the heart of his desire to preach was a fierce love of people, a desire that meant he did not neglect his pastoral ministry.