Day by Day

It gathers readings for the morning and the evening — daily bread to keep the soul fed — from Spurgeon's beloved classics to the books of the quiet hour. Its keynote is Lamentations 3:22–23, "his compassions fail not. They are new every morning": the shelf is built for the daily rhythm of devotion, a portion each day rather than a book read at a sitting.

Among them are Spurgeon's "Morning by Morning" and "Evening by Evening" and "Gleanings among the Sheaves," "Thoughts for the Quiet Hour," F. B. Meyer's "Our Daily Walk," A. B. Simpson's "Days of Heaven Upon Earth," and Spurgeon's "The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith" — devotional companions built to be taken a day at a time.

"It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness" is the promise under the whole collection — that God's mercy is renewed daily, and so the soul is fed daily. It sets the pattern of morning-and-evening reading as a way of meeting fresh mercy each day.

Two of the most beloved daily devotionals ever written — a short, Scripture-anchored reading for each morning and each evening of the year, drawn from the warm, Christ-centred heart of Spurgeon's preaching. They have kept company with generations of Christians at the beginning and end of the day, feeding the soul in the small, faithful portions the shelf is built around.

Spurgeon's daily book of God's promises, treating each one as a cheque to be endorsed by faith and presented at the bank of heaven — a promise for every day, with a few lines pressing the reader to take God at His word. It brings to the shelf the note of confident, promise-claiming prayer, one day at a time.

Because these books were made for it, and the soul is fed the way the body is — regularly, in daily portions, not in occasional feasts. Lamentations' word shapes the practice: mercy is new every morning, so the reading is renewed every morning too, keeping the heart near God through the ordinary rhythm of the day.

Spurgeon's "Morning by Morning" is the classic entry for the start of the day, "Evening by Evening" for its close; "Thoughts for the Quiet Hour" gathers brief gems for a pause; and "The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith" turns each day toward a promise of God. Any of them can simply be begun on today's date.

Because a soul needs feeding daily, and busy readers rarely keep up a long book but can keep a short daily reading. These companions have proved themselves over generations for exactly that — a portion of green pasture each morning and evening, keeping the great faithfulness of God fresh in the reader's memory through every ordinary day.