An important call to national corporate prayer for revival
he was deeply vested in the Scottish National Covenant and this particular work is of peculiar value as he addresses the sort of "hot button" issues of his time
The Gospel has revealed an Archimedean point
The walls of your long patience: I hope no worse
Second page indicates this was gifted to Middleburg College later [minor markings]
1865 C. H. SPURGEON. The Sword and the Trowel. First Edition of First Year Ever Issued. Premillennialism An important call to nationalReasonably well preserved first edition of the very first year of Spurgeon's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. In addition to his weekly sermons, it provided a vehicle to engage controversies, i. e. Calvinism, Baptismal Regeneration, Sectarianism, The Downgrade Controversy, etc., to provide a platform for many of the excellent people he was surrounded by at the Pastor's College, at various conferences, etc., to promote an interest in Church