Combines ageless wisdom with well-tuned wit to produce some of the most memorable, instructive, and inspiring messages to students of divinity ever composed. - Randall J. Pederson, WTS Books staff & author of Day by Day with Jonathan Edwards

"Soon, the floods of his pent-up wisdom poured fourth; the flashes of his inimitable wit lit up every face, and his pathos brought tears to all eyes. It was an epoch in student-life to hear him deliver his Lectures to my Students."
- From a former student of Spurgeon's at the Pastors' College

The substance of Spurgeon's regular Friday afternoon addresses to the students of the Pastor's College (founded by Spurgeon in 1857 to train others for the ministry), this new complete and unabridged Banner edition, newly typeset and smyth-sewn, contains all the lectures in the original first and second series, including "The Minister's Self-Watch," "The Preacher's Private Prayer," "The Minister's Fainting Fits," "The Holy Spirit in Connection with our Ministry," "The Need of Decision for the Truth," and "On Conversion as our Aim." This edition also includes a third series of lectures, originally published as "The Art of illustration," and Spurgeon's Commenting and Commentaries, which contains two further lectures and a fascinating and often humorously annotated catalogue of commentaries.

Reflecting on nature of this work, Spurgeon writes, "The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man's all, and that all at its best. To engage in it half-heartedly is an insult to God and man. Slumber must forsake our eyelids sooner than men shall be allowed to perish. Yet we are all prone to sleep as do others, and students, among the rest, are apt to act the part of the foolish virgins; therefore have I sought to speak out my whole soul, in the hope that I might not create or foster dullness in others. May He in whose hand are the churches and their pastors bless these words to younger brethren in the ministry, and if so, I shall count it more than a full reward, and shall gratefully praise the Lord."