28 OCTOBER (1877)
A Sabbath-school sermon
‘He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.’ Isaiah 40:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 18:1–10
I read the other day a pleasing anecdote of what one lamb may come to. A ewe brought forth three lambs, and the brutal shepherd threw the third into the hedge that there might be the more milk for the other two. A poor woman passing by begged for the thrown away lamb, employed her utmost care in nursing it by means of a sucking bottle, and reared it till it could eat grass for itself. She turned it upon the common and in due course it produced twins: by care she at length raised a whole flock of sheep from the single ewe and in process of time she became a woman of considerable estate. See what one poor half-dead lamb may yet produce. Who knows what one poor trembling soul may yet bring forth?
Jesus knows that perhaps a boy may be here who will be the spiritual father of scores and hundreds of thousands before he dies. There may be in the congregation of today a Chrysostom or an Augustine. Right among us may sit a little Whitefield, a young Luther, or some other of honourable character who shall lead many to Christ.
There was a dreadful snow-storm one Sunday morning when Dr. Tyng of New York set out to preach; when he reached the church there was only one poor little girl there. Most preachers would have gone home when one child made up the whole of the congregation, but Dr. Tyng went through the service as earnestly as if the pews had been crowded. He preached to the little girl; God gave him that girl’s soul and never was he better repaid. To his knowledge she had been the means of bringing some twenty-five to the Lord Jesus, and among them was one of his own sons. The greatest orator, the most spiritual teacher, the most useful evangelist may not dare to despise one of Christ’s little ones.
FOR MEDITATION: Some of the godliest people in the Bible came to know the Lord as children (1 Samuel 3:1–10, 19–21; 2 Chronicles 34:1–3; Jeremiah 1:4–7; Luke 1:13–15, 80; 2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15). Early conversion is preferable (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 312.
A Sabbath-school sermon
‘He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.’ Isaiah 40:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 18:1–10
I read the other day a pleasing anecdote of what one lamb may come to. A ewe brought forth three lambs, and the brutal shepherd threw the third into the hedge that there might be the more milk for the other two. A poor woman passing by begged for the thrown away lamb, employed her utmost care in nursing it by means of a sucking bottle, and reared it till it could eat grass for itself. She turned it upon the common and in due course it produced twins: by care she at length raised a whole flock of sheep from the single ewe and in process of time she became a woman of considerable estate. See what one poor half-dead lamb may yet produce. Who knows what one poor trembling soul may yet bring forth?
Jesus knows that perhaps a boy may be here who will be the spiritual father of scores and hundreds of thousands before he dies. There may be in the congregation of today a Chrysostom or an Augustine. Right among us may sit a little Whitefield, a young Luther, or some other of honourable character who shall lead many to Christ.
There was a dreadful snow-storm one Sunday morning when Dr. Tyng of New York set out to preach; when he reached the church there was only one poor little girl there. Most preachers would have gone home when one child made up the whole of the congregation, but Dr. Tyng went through the service as earnestly as if the pews had been crowded. He preached to the little girl; God gave him that girl’s soul and never was he better repaid. To his knowledge she had been the means of bringing some twenty-five to the Lord Jesus, and among them was one of his own sons. The greatest orator, the most spiritual teacher, the most useful evangelist may not dare to despise one of Christ’s little ones.
FOR MEDITATION: Some of the godliest people in the Bible came to know the Lord as children (1 Samuel 3:1–10, 19–21; 2 Chronicles 34:1–3; Jeremiah 1:4–7; Luke 1:13–15, 80; 2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15). Early conversion is preferable (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 312.
28 OCTOBER (1877)
A Sabbath-school sermon
‘He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom.’ Isaiah 40:11
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Matthew 18:1–10
I read the other day a pleasing anecdote of what one lamb may come to. A ewe brought forth three lambs, and the brutal shepherd threw the third into the hedge that there might be the more milk for the other two. A poor woman passing by begged for the thrown away lamb, employed her utmost care in nursing it by means of a sucking bottle, and reared it till it could eat grass for itself. She turned it upon the common and in due course it produced twins: by care she at length raised a whole flock of sheep from the single ewe and in process of time she became a woman of considerable estate. See what one poor half-dead lamb may yet produce. Who knows what one poor trembling soul may yet bring forth?
Jesus knows that perhaps a boy may be here who will be the spiritual father of scores and hundreds of thousands before he dies. There may be in the congregation of today a Chrysostom or an Augustine. Right among us may sit a little Whitefield, a young Luther, or some other of honourable character who shall lead many to Christ.
There was a dreadful snow-storm one Sunday morning when Dr. Tyng of New York set out to preach; when he reached the church there was only one poor little girl there. Most preachers would have gone home when one child made up the whole of the congregation, but Dr. Tyng went through the service as earnestly as if the pews had been crowded. He preached to the little girl; God gave him that girl’s soul and never was he better repaid. To his knowledge she had been the means of bringing some twenty-five to the Lord Jesus, and among them was one of his own sons. The greatest orator, the most spiritual teacher, the most useful evangelist may not dare to despise one of Christ’s little ones.
FOR MEDITATION: Some of the godliest people in the Bible came to know the Lord as children (1 Samuel 3:1–10, 19–21; 2 Chronicles 34:1–3; Jeremiah 1:4–7; Luke 1:13–15, 80; 2 Timothy 1:5; 3:15). Early conversion is preferable (Ecclesiastes 12:1).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 312.
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