The Soul Winner

ISBN 1-56186-330-0

NEW Large Print EXPANDED edition

15 Chapters, Large-Print Paperback, 324 Pages, $10 (low price!)

Includes 5 added Sermons on the "Soul-Winning" theme!

+ 14 bonus Evangelistic Excerpts from the Works/Sermons of C H Spurgeon

(see complete Table of Contents further below)

C. H. Spurgeon was strongly committed to definite doctrinal positions, yet he was one of the foremost soul winning and evangelistic pastors of Christian history. His converts numbered into the thousands under his preaching at the Tabernacle and multitudes more were converted thru reading the printed sermons and other publications. The Soul Winner is a practical book on "How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour." Many were won by Spurgeon as a personal witness, and this book reveals the characteristics of being a soul winner whether in the pulpit or outside of it. Some have used the book as a "manual" for class study.

This volume is issued in accordance with a plan formed by Mr. Spurgeon; indeed, he had already prepared for the press the greater part of the material here published, and the rest of his manuscripts have been inserted after only slight revision. It was his intention to deliver to the students of the Pastors' College a short course of Lectures upon what he termed "that most royal employment" — SOUL-WINNING — and, having completed the series, he purposed to collect his previous utterances to other audiences upon the same theme, and to publish the whole for the guidance of all who desired to become soul-winners, and with the hope also of inducing many more professing Christians to engage in this truly blessed service for the Saviour.

This explanation will account for the form in which the topic is treated in the present book. The first six chapters contain the College Lectures; then follows four Addresses delivered to Sunday-school teachers, open-air preachers, and friends gathered at Monday evening prayer-meetings at the Tabernacle; while the rest of the volume consists of sermons in which the work of winning souls is earnestly commended to the attention of every believer in the Lord Jesus Christ.

For more than forty years, Mr. Spurgeon was, by his preaching and writing, one of the greatest soul-winners; and by his printed words he still continues to be the means of the conversion of many all over the world. It is believed, therefore, that thousands will rejoice to read what he spoke and wrote concerning what he called "the chief business of the Christian minister."

"This is probably the best book available on the subject of Soul-Winning and is heartily recommended."  — Reformation Review

"There is not a better source for the inspiration and guidance of a minister today than to sit at the feet of such a great soul winner as Charles Haddon Spurgeon and learn from him the essentials of evangelism." — Evangelism

"No one can read this book without being stimulated to go out and win others to Christ." — Billy Graham

"I can highly recommend this book, and would urge every pastor and leader in the congregation to read it." — Covenanter Witness

"If you are eager for real joy, such as you may think over and sleep upon, I am persuaded that no joy of growing wealthy, no joy of increasing knowledge, no joy of influence over your fellow-creatures, no joy of any other sort, can ever be compared with the rapture of saving a soul from death, & helping to restore our lost brethren to our great Father's house." — C. H. Spurgeon pg. 213

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

  1. What is it to Win a Soul?

  2. Qualifications for Soul-Winning: GODWARD

  3. Qualifications for Soul-Winning: MANWARD

  4. Sermons Likely to Win Souls

  5. Obstacles to Soul-Winning

  6. How to Induce our People to Win Souls

  7. How to Raise the Dead - an Address to Sunday School Teachers

  8. How to Win Souls for Christ - an Address to Open Air Preachers

  9. The Cost of being a Soul-Winner

10. The Soul-Winner's Reward

11. The Soul-Winner's Life and Work - Proverbs 11:30 - from SERMON #1292

12. Soul-Winning Explained - Proverbs 11:30 - from SERMON #850

13. Soul-Saving Our One Business - 1 Cor. 9:22 - from SERMON #1507

14. Instruction in Soul-Winning - Matthew 4:19 - from SERMON #1906

15. Encouragement to Soul-Winners - James 5:19-20 - from SERMON #1137

BONUS - 14 bonus Evangelistic Excerpts from the Works/Sermons of C H Spurgeon

(Note: bonus content is exclusively found only in the Pilgrim Publications edition)

  1. Preach the Gospel - Pg. 68

(excerpt from sermon: Beware of Unbelief)

  2. First Efforts to Win Souls - Pg. 88

(excerpt from: C. H. Spurgeon's Autobiography Vol 1)

  3. Spurgeon's Dedication to Evangelism and Soul Winning - Pg. 114

(excerpt from: The Sword and the Trowel Magazine)

  4. Preach the Word Everywhere - Pg. 128

(excerpt from sermon: Christ and His Co-Workers)

  5. Will Ye Be Christ's? - Pg. 170

(excerpt from sermon: An Urgent Request for an Immediate Answer)

  6. Here is the Marvel of the Gospel - Pg. 194

(excerpt from sermon: The New Fashion)

  7. Spurgeon's Exhortation to Plainness - Pg. 204

(excerpt from sermon: The Sphere of Instrumentality)

  8. A Revival Service at Metropolitan Tabernacle - Pg. 216

(excerpt from: The Sword and the Trowel Magazine)

  9. Spurgeon on Hymns and Soul Winning - Pg. 242

(excerpt from book: Our Own Hymnbook)

10. Conversion of Children - Pg. 292

(excerpt from sermon: Children Brought to Christ, Not to the Font)

11. Salvation by Simple Faith - Pgs. 344-346

(excerpt from: A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth)

12. Invitations to the Unsaved - Pgs. 347-348

(excerpt from book: Lectures to My Students)

13. Spurgeon on "Just As I Am" - Pg. 349

(excerpt from sermon: Up From the Country, and Pressed Into the Service)

14. "God be Merciful to Me a Sinner" - Pg. 350

(excerpt from sermons: Confession and Absolution, and A Sermon for the Worst Man on Earth)

Also: Spurgeon's Conversion to Christ (his testimony) - Pgs. 351-352

- from Isaiah 45: 22 "Look Unto Me and Be Ye Saved All the Ends of the Earth!"

 Read - A WORD TO SOUL-WINNERS by C. H. Spurgeon