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.

Fulness Of Grace

Christ has grace without measure in Himself, but He has not retained it for Himself. As the reservoir empties itself into the pipe, so hath Christ emptied out His grace for His people for "of His fulness have we all recieved, and grace for grace." He stands like the fountain ever flowing but only running in order to supply the empy pitchers and the thirsty lips which draw nigh unto it. Like a tree, He bears sweet fruit, not to hang on boughs, but to be gathered by those who need it. Grace, whether it's work be to pardon, to cleanse, to preserve, to strengthen, to enlighten, to quicken or to restore is ever to be had from Him freely and without price, nor is there a single form of the work of grace which He has not bestowed upon His people. As the blood of the body, though flowing from the heart belongs equally to every physical member so the influences of grace are the inheritance of every saint united to the Lamb, and herein there is a sweet communion between Christ and His church inasmuch as they both recieve the same grace, Christ is the head upon which the oil is first poured, but the same oil runs to the very skirt of the garment so that the least saint has an unction of the same costly moisture as that which fell upon the head. This is true communion, when the sap of grace flows from the stem to the branch, and when you see that the stem itself is sustained by the very nourishment which feeds the branch. As we recieve day by day, grace from Jesus and more constantly recognise it as coming from Him, we shall the more relish our fellowship with Him. Let us make daily use of our riches and ever repair to Him as to our own Lord in covenant, taking from Him the supply of all we need with as much confidence as men take money from their own purse.