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The Complete John Ploughman (Charles Spurgeon)
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Spurgeon’s brief, witty, humorous talks illustrating Biblical truths from farming and rural life.
C. H. Spurgeon was one of the most widely published ministers of the Victorian era. Sales of his books run into many millions. He had a gift for speaking the language of the man-in-the street and presenting Christian truth in a way that captured the imagination.
Two of his publications of this type are here combined into one volume. Both are funny, pointed and profound in their content. They give answers to the common questions of the day on doctrine and behavior as explained by a ploughman to his wayward audience.
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The Complete John Ploughman
Combining the volumes John Ploughman’s Talk and John Ploughman’s Pictures
C. H. Spurgeon was one of the most widely published ministers of the Victorian era. Sales of his books run into many millions. He had a gift for speaking the language of the man-in-the street and presenting Christian truth in a way that captured the imagination.
Two of his publications of this type are here combined into one volume. Both are funny, pointed and profound in their content. They give answers to the common questions of the day on doctrine and behavior as explained by a ploughman to his wayward audience.
Contents include chapters on:
- The idle
- Religious grumblers
- Patience
- Gossips
- Faults
- Things not worth trying
- Spending
- Men with two faces
- Seizing opportunities
- Keeping one’s eyes open
- On the preacher’s appearance
- Debt
- Monuments
- and many ,more!
About C. H. Spurgeon
C. H. Spurgeon was one of the most influential people of the 19th Century. At the heart of his desire to preach was a fierce love of people in his pastoral ministry.
It has sometimes been said that Christians are ‘too heavenly minded to be of any earthly use.’ This could never be alleged of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Spurgeon combined heavenly mindedness with zeal to improve the lot of ordinary people. At the height of his ministry there were dozens of enterprises growing out of London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle. He and is co-workers served both the spiritual and practical needs of men and women, boys and girls.
Although Spurgeon is best remembered as a preacher, he was also a gifted writer. Under the not-so-well disguised pseudonym of ‘John Ploughman’, a wise old country farm worker, Spurgeon penned a number of humorous articles on topical subjects in his monthly magazine, The Sword and the Trowel. ‘I have somewhat indulged the mirthful vein, but ever with so serious a purpose that I ask no forgiveness’, he wrote.
In these articles he ‘aimed blows at the vices of the many’ and tried to inculcate ‘those moral virtues without which men are degraded.’ His efforts met with great success. When later published, John Ploughman’s Talk and John Ploughman’s Pictures were an instant hit! Sales of the two volumes exceeding 600,000 in the author’s own lifetime. In homes all over Great Britain, Spurgeon’s practical wisdom on subjects such as alcohol, debt, anger, temptation, cruelty, and the family home were heeded and cherished.
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