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Gleanings among the Sheaves, one of Spurgeon’s earliest publications, contains more than one hundred meditations and short reflections on diverse topics, including prayer, beauty, poverty, faith, and doubt. He also writes at length on religion as a personal matter. Some reflections are brief; others longer; but all have resulted from extended thought and reflection.

we might the sooner win it; but it is all the more dangerous from the fact that it is a strife of mind, a contest of heart, a struggle of the spirit—ofttimes an agony of the soul. Do you wonder that the Christian is called to conflict? God never gives strong faith without fiery trial; he will not build a strong ship, without subjecting it to very mighty storms; he will not make you a mighty warrior, if he does not intend to try your skill in battle. The sword of the Lord must be used; the blades
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