SPURGEONICS.

AFFLICTION.....The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

COMMUNION.....One hour with Christ is worth an eternity of all earth's joys, and communion with Him is the best, the surest, and the most ecstatic foretaste of the bliss of heaven.

FAMILY PRAYER.....and the pulpit are the bulwarks of protestantism! depend upon it, when family piety goes down, the life of godliness will become very low. In Europe, at any rate, seeing that the christian faith began with one converted household, we ought to seek after the conversion of all our families, and to maintain within our own homes the good and holy practice of family worship.

PREACHING....."Often, when I come in at the door and my eyes fall on this vast congregation, I feel a tremour go through me to think that I should have to speak to you all and be, in some measure, accountable for your future state. Unless I preach the gospel faithfully and with all my heart, your blood will be required at my hands. Do not therefore wonder that when I am weak and sick, I feel my head swim when I stand up to speak to you, and my heart is often faint within me. But I do have this joy at the back of it all, God does set many sinners free in this place!"

OPEN WIDE.....Open your mouth wide in prayer, " I cannot " says one, well if you open your mouth God will fill it with prayer, and then, when you have prayed the prayer that He has given you, He will fill it with answers! God gives the prayer as well as the answer to prayer! Only open your mouth and, as it were, make a vacuum for God to fill. God loves to look for emptiness where He may stow away His grace

STRENGTH THROUGH WEAKNESS.....The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into man's heart until man's power is all poured out. The christian's life is one of daily dependence on the grace and strength of God.

WHERE CHRIST IS..... "Phlip was a searcher after Christ in the place where Christ loves to be, in the pages of scripture, and you must be the same, if you desire to find Jesus!"

PERSEVERING PRAYER.

Do not give up those prayers which God's Spirit has put into your hearts, for remember, the things you have asked for are worth waiting for. Besides, you are a beggar when you are in prayer, therefore you must not be a chooser as to the time when God shall hear you. If you had right ideas about yourself, you would say, " it is a wonder that He ever listens to me at all, so unworthy as I am. Does the Infinite indeed bow His ear to me? may I hope He will at last listen to me? Then I may well continue with my prayers."
And recollect, it is your only hope, there is no other Saviour. This or none, Christ's blood or else eternal wrath. None ever yet perished pleading for mercy, therefore keep on.
Besides, better men than you have had to wait. Kings, patriachs and prophets have waited, therefore you can afford to sit in the King's ante-chamber a little while. It is an honour to sit as Mordecai did at the gate. Pray on-wait on!
"Ah!" says one " that is just what I have been doing, a long time." Yes, yes, there are different kinds of waiting. A man says " I have been waiting," but he has his arms folded and is gone to sleep. You may wait in that way till you are lost. The waiting I mean is " getting all things ready " the waiting for the physician by the poor sufferer, who cries out in pain, " is the doctor coming?" I will be a surety for my Master when I say that none such as that will be sent away empty. He will never break His promise. TRY HIM, TRY HIM!

SPURGEONIC TONICS

GOOD BOY!....There is a story about a doctor at one of our hospitals, a year or two ago, he healed a dogs' broken leg and the grateful animal brought other dogs to have their broken legs healed, that was a good dog you say, but some of you are not half so good! You believe that Christ is blessing you, yet you never bring others to Him to be saved.

MEDITATE...."My meditation of Him will be sweet" of HIM that is, of the Well-beloved of the Father, of the Well- beloved of the church, of the Well-beloved of my own soul, of Him who loved me, in whose blood I have washed my robes and made them white. It is meditation of HIM that is sweet, not merely doctrines about Him, but of Him. Not merely of His work or His offices, but His own dear Self! there lies the sweetness of it. And the closer we come to His blessed Person, the more truly we have approached the very center of bliss.

THE GOSPEL....It is the word of God which saves souls, not our comment upon it, howsoever correct that comment may be, let us then be scrupulously careful to honour The Holy Ghost by taking the weapon which He has prepared for us, and believing fully in the divine inspiration of the sacred scriptures and expecting that God will prove their inspiration by their effect on the minds and hearts of men.

GREAT SINNER-GREAT SAVIOUR....Do not think of the sinner, or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of The Saviour.

GUIDANCE....Is there anybody here who is going out of this tabernacle to a place where he ought not go? Will he pray first? he knows he cannot ask a blessing on it and therefore he ought not to go there. Go nowhere where you cannot go after prayer, this is the best guide in your choice of where you should go.

PRAYER....No man has so great need to pray as the man who does no care to pray. When you can pray and long to pray, why then you will pray. But when you cannot pray and do not wish to pray, then you must pray, or evil will come of it. He is on the verge of ruin who forgets the mercy-seat.

IN THE GREATNESS....of our trouble there may often be room for the greater display of the goodness of God.

DO AS THOU HAST SAID

God's promises were never meant to be tossed aside like waste paper, He intended that they be used. God's gold is not miser's money it is minted to be traded with.
Nothing pleases Our Lord better than to see His promises being put into circulation, He loves to see His children bringing them up to Him and saying "Lord do as Thou hast said."
We glorify God when we plead His promises.
Do you think that God will be any the poorer for giving you the riches He has promised? Do you dream that His holiness will be any the less for sharing it with you? will He be any less pure for washing you from your sins? He has said come now and let us reason together saith The Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Faith lays hold of the promise of pardon, it goes straight to the throne of grace and pleads "Lord here is the promise, do as Thou has said." He will reply "be it unto thee even as thou wilt."
When the child of God grasps the promise and hastens to the throne of grace with it and cries
"Lord I have nothing to recommend me but this " Thou hast said it" his desire shall be granted.
Our heavenly Banker delights to cash His own notes.
Never let the promise rust. Draw the sword of promise out of its scabbard and use it with holy violence.
Don't think that God will be troubled by your importunity in reminding Him of His promises, He loves to hear the loud outcries of needy souls, it is His delight to bestow favors He is more ready to hear than you are to ask.
The sun is not weary with shining, nor the fountain with flowing. It is God's nature to give,
He will keep His promise. Therefore go at once to Him with this petition "Do as thou hast said."