Lectures to My Students

The first series of the lectures Charles Spurgeon gave on Friday afternoons to the students of his Pastors' College at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, published in 1875 at the request of the ministers who had first heard them. He warns that they are “colloquial, familiar, full of anecdote, and often humorous,” and they are: thirteen talks on the minister's own soul, the marks of a true call, private and public prayer, the matter of sermons, choosing a text, spiritualizing, the voice, holding attention, speaking without notes, the minister's fainting fits, his ordinary conversation, and how to work with few books. Under the humour runs one conviction — that the preacher's own walk with God is his first tool, and that Christ must be all in his ministry.