The Spare Half Hour
Digital Logos Edition
Our life has been mainly spent in direct religious teaching, and to that work we would dedicate our main strength; but men need also to hear common every-day things spoken of in a religious manner, for to some of them this roundabout road is the only way to their hearts. Theology is dull reading to the unconverted; but mixed with a story or set forth by a witty saying, they will drink in a great amount of religious truth and find no fault. They like their pills gilded, or at least sugar-coated, and if by that means they may be really benefited, who will grudge them the gilt or the sugar?
These occasional papers, rescued from the pages of our monthly magazine, The Sword and the Trowel, are preserved in this form from the oblivion which awaits the bulk of periodical literature. We are in hopes that spare half-hours may be profitably spent in reading these brief essays. The Spare Half Hour should be allowed to lie about in the parlor, the kitchen, or the waiting-room: it may catch the eye by its title, and interest by its contents.
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- Title: The Spare Half-Hour
- Author: Charles Spurgeon
- Publisher: Wordsearch
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Christian living
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_7E8050CF8C7A4A5290ADBA68E62D7CF2
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-19T17:48:36Z
C. H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) is one of the church’s most famous preachers and Christianity’s most prolific writers. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel and began his own ministry immediately, preaching more than 500 sermons by the age of 20. Logos has collected his sermons in The Complete Spurgeon Sermon Collection (63 vols.).
Spurgeon was the pastor of New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle). Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in 20 languages. Spurgeon is still known as the “Prince of Preachers” by Reformed Christians and Baptists.
Spurgeon founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College) in London. Dwight L. Moody was deeply influenced by Spurgeon’s preaching, and founded the Moody Bible Institute after seeing Spurgeon’s work at the Pastor’s College in London.
By the time of Spurgeon’s death in 1892, he had preached almost 3,600 sermons and published, also under the name Charles H. Spurgeon, 49 volumes of commentaries, along with numerous books of sayings, devotions, and more. The Charles Spurgeon Collection (149 vols.) contains over 3,550 sermons from this gifted speaker and leader and his most-loved works like The Treasury of David, Lectures to My Students, The Sword and Trowel, and dozens of other volumes. Also available from Logos is Spurgeon Commentary: Galatians, and the Spurgeon Sermon Upgrade Collection (2 vols.).