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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328

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Hardcover

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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.

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Table of Contents:

	John Ploughman’s Talk
	Preface	vii
	To the Idle	1
	On Religious Grumblers	11
	On the Preacher’s Appearance	17
	On Good Nature and Firmness	21
	On Patience	29
	On Gossips	33
	On Seizing Opportunities	37
	On Keeping One’s Eyes Open	41
	Thoughts about Thought	45
	Faults	49
	Things Not Worth Trying	53
	Debt	57
	Home	67
	Men Who Are Down	75
	Hope	81
	Spending	87
	A Good Word for Wives	93
	Men with Two Faces	103
	Hints As To Thriving	109
	Tall Talk	117
	Things I Would Not Choose	125
	Try	129
	Monuments	135
	Very Ignorant People	141
	If the Cap Fits Wear It	151
	Burn a Candle at Both Ends . . .	155
	Hunchback Sees Not His Own Hump . . .	159
	It Is Hard for an Empty Sack To Stand Upright	163
	He Who Would Please All Will Lose His Donkey	169
	All Are Not Hunters That Blow the Horn	173
	A Hand-saw Is a Good Thing, but Not To Shave with	177
	Don’t Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face	181
	He Has a Hole under His Nose . . .	185
	Every Man Should Sweep before His Own Door	193
	Scant Feeding of Man or Horse . . .	197
	Never Stop the Plough to Catch a Mouse	203
	A Looking-glass Is of No Use to a Blind Man	207
	He has Got the Fiddle, but Not the Stick	213
	Great Cry and Little Wool . . .	215
	You May Bend the Sapling, but not the Tree	219
	A Man May Love His House . . .	223
	Great Drinkers Think Themselves Great Men	229
	Two Dogs Fight for a Bone . . .	235
	He Lives under the Sign of the Cat’s Foot	237
	He Would Put His Finger in the Pie . . .	243
	You Can’t Catch the Wind in a Net	247
	Beware of the Dog	251
	Like Cat like Kit	259
	A Horse which Carries a Halter is Soon Caught	263
	An Old Fox Is Shy of a Trap	267
	A Black Hen Lays a White Egg	271
	He Looks One Way and Pulls the Other	273
	Stick to It and Do It	275
	Don’t Put the Cart before the Horse	283
	A Leaking Tap is a Great Waster	287
	Fools Set Stools for Wise Men to Stumble Over	293
	A Man in a Passion Rides a Horse . . .	295
	Where the Plough Shall Fail To Go . . .	299
	All Is Lost that Is Poured into a Cracked Dish	303
	Grasp All and Lose All	307
	Scatter and Increase	309
	Every Bird Likes Its Own Nest	313

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.