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The Spurgeon Birthday Book PREFACE & CALENDAR

by Mike Ross — last modified Jan 01, 2011 08:18 PM

To our knowledge, THE SPURGEON BIRTHDAY BOOK -- a 365-day Devotional book that contains a brief devotional message and five blank lines for each day's birthday entries of friends and relatives -- has never been re-published since Spurgeon's lifetime. During 2011, Pilgrim Publications will reprint THE SPURGEON BIRTHDAY BOOK in the original hardback edition for this generation's readers. Price and Availability will be announced here when known. We present the book unedited, unabridged, including the original English spelling of Spurgeon's words. Begin reading with the author's PREFACE... "Thoughts that breathe and words that burn."

 

 

PREFACE - "Thoughts that breathe and words that burn."

Metaphors often convey to the mind truth which otherwise would not have reached the understanding; for men frequently see under the guise and form of an illustration a doctrine which, if it had been nakedly stated, they could not have comprehended. Illustrations, like windows, let light into the chambers of the mind. There is also the use of the metaphor, that, even if it be not understood at first, it excites thought, and men exercise their minds upon it as children upon an enigma; and so they learn, perhaps, more through a dark saying than through a sentence transparent at first sight. Yet further: metaphorical speech is apt upon the unwilling mind, like a lion which has leaped upon a giraffe in the desert. Mere bald statement is soon forgotten, but illustrations stick in the soul like hooks in a fish's mouth.


Each Month's Devotional Entries are Linked below
(will appear as they are added to our website in 2011)

JANUARY

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FEBRUARY

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MARCH

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APRIL

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MAY

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JUNE

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JULY

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AUGUST

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SEPTEMBER

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OCTOBER

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NOVEMBER

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DECEMBER

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