SPURGEONICS.

EVOLUTION.......I have heard a great deal about the evolution and the development of man. But I am afraid that if any of us were to be developed to our utmost, apart from the grace of God, we should come out worse than when the development began.

SERMONS.......Some sermons which I have heard, though faultlessly orthodox, have contained nothing that could convert anybody-for there has been nothing to touch the heart or the conscience. Others, though very clever and profound, have had no possible bearing on the needs of the hearers and so it was little wonder that they were without result.

SLANDER.......It is a fine thing, when you are slandered, not to hear it. And it is a better thing to never reply to it. I try to possess one deaf ear and one blind eye, and I believe the deaf ear is the better one, and the blind eye the more useful one. Do not remember the injury that was done to you, forget it, and pass it over. Do not go around the world determined to grasp every red-hot poker that any fool hands to you. Let it alone, that will be for your own good and for God's glory, be patient under the slander of the wicked.

SELF WORSHIP.......The Egyptians have been reckoned the most degraded people in the world in their worship. They worshipped onions, until Juvenal remarked to them, "oh blessed people, who grow their gods in their own gardens!" But I do not think they were quite as degraded as the man who worships himself. If I could bring my soul to worship an onion, yet I could never degrade myself low enough to worship myself. A man who makes himself to be his own god is mad.

PRAYER.......should be the natural outflow of the soul, you should pray because you must pray, not because the set time for prayer has arrived, but because your heart must cry unto The Lord.

GRACE AND FREE-WILL.......You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, "salvation is all of the grace of God."-"damnation is all of the free-will of man."

FORGIVENESS.......There is the same power with God to forgive sin as there has always been, for the blood of Jesus is as powerful to cleanse as it ever was. Note also that there is the same power of The Holy Spirit to change your nature as there ever was. He who turned Saul of Tarsus from being an enemy into an apostle, can do just the same for you.