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Feathers for Arrows; Or, Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, From My Note Book
Feathers for Arrows Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers From My Note Book Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Subjects: Sermons Homiletical illustrations Religion / Inspirational Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Baptist Religion / Christian Ministry / Preaching Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint ... more »of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HEARING- Carelessly. We crossed and recrossed the river several times by the ferry-boat at Basle. We had no object in the world but merely amusement and curiosity, to watch the simple machinery by which the same current is made to drift the boat in opposite directions from side to side. To other passengers it was a business, to us a sport. Our hearers use our ministry in much the same manner when they come to it out of the idlest curiosity, and listen to us as a means of spending a pleasant hour. That which should ferry them across to a better state of soul, they use as a mere pleasure-boat, to sail up and down in, making no progress after years of hearing. Alas! it may be sport to them, but it is death to us, because we know it will ere long be death to them. HEARINS -- for Others. The negro preachers are often marked by great shrewdness and mother wit; and will not only point the truth, but barb it, so that if once in it will stick fast. One of these was once descanting with much earnestness on different ways in which men lose their souls. Under one head of remark, he said that men often lose their souls through excessive generosity. " What!" he exclaimed, " you tell me you never heard of that before ? You say, ministers often tell us we lose our souls for our stinginess, and for being covetous -- but who ever heard of a man that hurt himself by going too far t'other way ? I tell yo...« less