The Heart of the Gospel

This book aspires to no pre-eminence as furnishing homiletic models. Twelve sermons are here put in print, which were preached in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, in the Autumn of 1891, while Pastor C. H. Spurgeon was seeking recovered health at Mentone. They were never written, even in part, and are reproduced almost verbatim. If any interest invests them, it is almost wholly circumstantial, owing to the unique conditions under which they were spoken. Many and marked as are their defects, it pleased God, in a remarkable degree, to use them both to convert sinners and confirm saints. There was a call for their publication, and it was so general that it was thought best not to disregard it, and it is devoutly hoped that He, for Whose sake they were prepared and preached, may have even yet some further errand for them to accomplish. With this prayer, they are sent forth in His name. ARTHUR T. PIERSON. Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, June, 1892.