Able to the Uttermost

Twenty Gospel Sermons

By

C. H. Spurgeon

Selected from his hitherto unpublished Manuscripts

Contents

I

Able to the Uttermost

II

The Sorrow That Leads to Repentance

III

In the Place of God’s Choosing

IV

From Sorrow to Joy

V

Safe in the Father’s Care

VI

Salvation at the Cross

VII

Giving God His Due

VIII

The Christian’s Badge

IX

From Gloom to Glory

X

The Glory of the Grace of God

XI

When God Speaks

XII

In God’s Garden of Rest

XIII

The Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles

XIV

Held and Kept

XV

A Comprehensive Prayer

XVI

Satan with the Sons of God

XVII

Playing the Fool

XVIII

Opening the Storehouses of Grace

XIX

“While the Lamp Holds on to Burn.”

XX

The Master’s Summons

Foreword

Charles Haddon Spurgeon not only pastored the largest church in the world, he founded an orphanage, a pastors’ college, operated 21 mission halls, and led in other great ministries to the poor of London. He also published more sermons and wrote more materials than any other English-speaking evangelical preacher of his day, or since.

His 135 books (plus another 28 which he edited) total about twenty-three million words, or the equivalent of the 27 volumes of the 9th edition of Encyclopedia Britannica! About 4,000 of his sermons remain in print today and are still among the best-selling volumes by any religious author, living or dead. The majority of these are in the magnificient New Park Street Pulpit and Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, recently reprinted by Pilgrim Publications.

But he must have preached at least three or four times as many; he was busy throughout the week outside of the Tabernacle, and preached there twice on Sunday and once during the week, while only one of these sermons was usually published in the weekly “Penny Pulpit.”

The publishers were able to keep selecting one hitherto unpublished sermon from the many manuscripts left behind each week right up into 1917, 25 years after his death.

This collection, Able to the Uttermost, is a further twenty sermons which may right be called the Forgotten Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon. They were printed in 1922 from hitherto unpublished manuscripts after the final official one was issued on May 10, 1917.

Here then we have a slightly enlarged view of the great preacher. His presentation, insight, warmth of spiritual realism, and uplifting of the substitutionary atonement are in view on almost every page.

It is fitting that such a volume should be re-issued soon upon the heels of the sesquicentennial year of his birth (1834). Some 500 more ‘Forgotten Sermons’ have recently been discovered which have never yet been published in volume format. Our hope is that the reception given to this volume may be such that publication of these will also be encouraged.

Craig P. Skinner, Ph.D.

Professor of Preaching

Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary

Mill Valley, California

Author of LAMPLIGHTER AND SON—The Forgotten Story of Thomas Spurgeon and His Famous Father, C. H. Spurgeon; Broadman Press, 1984 - (Sesquicentennial ...