Following on from our little series on Lloyd-Jones prefaces, someone passsed on to me a commendation for Spurgeon's sermons that he wrote. It appeared on the dust jacket of one of the sermon volumes (Volume 9 1863). I was given the piece last summer but mislaid it and have now found it again.
THE VALUE OF SPURGEON’S SERMONS By Dr D M LLOYD-JONES
I am delighted to hear of this project of reprinting the sermons of the great Charles Haddon Spurgeon. I am particularly pleased that you are not going to abridge or modify them in any way. In the case of Spurgeon that is particularly important, as, in the past, publishers have been guilty of allowing their own theological prejudices to exclude what Spurgeon himself would have regarded as vital.
Throughout my ministerial life, people have told me of the help and blessing they have obtained from reading Spur-geon’s sermons. I think primarily of lay people who were not fortunate enough to have good, solid, evangelical preaching in their own churches, and who find the sermonettes and talks on the radio and television quite inadequate. Spurgeon always provides a solid meal and sustenance on which one can live.
Many preachers also, I know, have modeled themselves on him. A still larger number have often found comfort, encouragement, stimulus and helpful suggestions for their own preaching as the result of reading his sermons.
Never was the Truth he preached and proclaimed, in such a winsome yet powerful manner, more needed than today. Nothing can substitute preaching — no psychological counseling or group therapy, or any one of the latest passing fads and crazes.
May God greatly bless this venture and through it raise up many men who shall “preach the Word in season, out of season,” and at the same time bring countless Christians throughout the world to know “the comfort and consolation of the Scriptures.”
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