Barbed Arrows from the Quiver of C. H. Spurgeon

by Charles Spurgeon

Publisher:

Passmore & Alabaster

, 1896

Overview

In Barbed Arrows, the enormous amount of content in Spurgeon’s preaching and writing has been condensed and organized by topic. From anecdotes, short stories, and insightful quotations, Barbed Arrows contains the most quotable and most accessible compilation of Spurgeon’s preaching and writing available anywhere. The Logos Bible Software edition of Barbed Arrows from the Quiver of C. H. Spurgeon was originally published in London by Passmore and Alabaster in 1896.

Product Details

• Title: Barbed Arrows from the Quiver of C. H. Spurgeon
• Author: Charles Spurgeon
• Publisher: Passmore and Alabaster
• Publication Date: 1896
• Pages: 277

About Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England on June 19, 1834. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel, to which he detoured during a snowstorm. While there, he heard a sermon on Isaiah 45:22 and was saved—“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.” He began his own ministry of preaching and teaching immediately, and preached more than 500 sermons by the age of twenty.

In 1854, at nineteen years of age, Spurgeon began preaching at the New Park Street Chapel in London. He was appointed to a six month trial position, which he requested be cut to three months should the congregation dislike his preaching. He gained instant fame, however, and the church grew from 232 members to more than five thousand at the end of his pastorate. Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in twenty languages. Throughout his ministry, Spurgeon estimated that he preached to more than 10,000,000 people. 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.

Spurgeon read six books per week during his adult life, and read Pilgrim’s Progress more than 100 times. In addition to his studying and preaching, Spurgeon also founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College), various orphanages and schools, mission chapels, and numerous other social institutions.

Charles Spurgeon suffered from poor health throughout his life. He died on January 31, 1892, and was buried in London.

Sample Pages from the Print Edition

Contents

Top Highlights

“To abstain from sin for any reason is, so far, good; but yet you may abstain from sin from a motive which will lend no virtue to your abstinence. Some abstain from sin from fear of men, or from hope of gain: as the thief is honest when he sees the policeman, and the beggar becomes pious when a dole is to be had at church. One sin will often kill another sin, as the miser shuns profligacy because he is too mean to spend his money riotously. But to abstain from sin because you love God—ay, that is the thing.” (Page 5)

“The bow of trouble shot David like an arrow towards God! It is a blessed thing when the waves of affliction wash us upon the rock of confidence in God alone, when darkness below gives us an eye to the light above.” (Page 7)

“Ah, brethren! the Lord knows the spot of His children. He acknowledges them by the mark of correction” (Page 8)

“When a man of God so looks for the Spirit that he spreads the sails of hope, the breeze is sure to blow.” (Page 19)

“He means that thou shouldst know what great billows are, and should feel their fury till thou seest ‘His wonders in the deep.’” (Page 16)

Product Details

• Title: Barbed Arrows from the Quiver of C. H. Spurgeon
• Author: Charles Spurgeon
• Publisher: Passmore & Alabaster
• Print Publication Date: 1896
• Logos Release Date: 2009
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Baptists › Sermons; Sermons, English
• Resource ID: LLS:BARBDARRO
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-03-08T19:07:03Z

About Charles Spurgeon

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.).