This book, first published in 1902, is a collection of sermons given by the late Alexander Maclaren. His works have been a favorite among students of the Bible for many years, and this collection is no exception.
This edition includes an Active Table of Contents.
Contents:
CHAPTER 1 The Victor's Crowns I
CHAPTER 2 The Victor's Crowns II
CHAPTER 3 The Victor's Crowns III
CHAPTER 4 The Victor's Crowns IV
CHAPTER 5 The Victor's Crowns V
CHAPTER 6 The Victor's Crowns VI
CHAPTER 7 The Victor's Crowns VII
CHAPTER 8 The Christ of the Sermon on the Mount
CHAPTER 9 Faith in His Name
CHAPTER 10 Looking Unto Jesus
CHAPTER 11 Paul at Corinth
CHAPTER 12 To Him that Hath Shall be Given
CHAPTER 13 All Things are Yours
CHAPTER 14 The Evil Eye and the Charm
CHAPTER 15 Putting on the Armour
CHAPTER 16 Dying Men and the Undying Word
CHAPTER 17 Citizenship in Heaven
CHAPTER 18 A Father's Discipline
CHAPTER 19 Ahab and Micaiah
CHAPTER 20 The Royal Jubilee
CHAPTER 21 The Spirit of Burning
CHAPTER 22 SeekYe-I will Seek
CHAPTER 23 Sound Doctrine or Healthy Teaching
CHAPTER 24 True Greatness
CHAPTER 25 Greatness in the Kingdom
CHAPTER 26 The Matter of a Day in its Day
CHAPTER 27 The Founder and Finisher of the Temple
CHAPTER 28 Peter's Deliverance from Prison
CHAPTER 29 A Pair of Friends
CHAPTER 30 A Soldier's Shoes
CHAPTER 31 A Life Lost and Found
CHAPTER 32 Christ's Mission the Revelation of God's love
Maclaren had been for almost sixty-five years a minister, entirely devoted to his calling. He lived more than almost any of the great preachers of his time between his study, his pulpit, his pen.
He subdued action to thought, thought to utterance and utterance to the Gospel. His life was his ministry; his ministry was his life. In 1842 he was enrolled as a candidate for the Baptist ministry at Stepney College, London. He was tall, shy, silent and looked no older than his sixteen years. But his vocation, as he himself (a consistent Calvinist) might have said, was divinely decreed. "I cannot ever recall any hesitation as to being a minister," he said. "It just had to be."
In the College he was thoroughly grounded in Greek and Hebrew. He was taught to study the Bible in the original and so the foundation was laid for his distinctive work as an expositor and for the biblical content of his preaching. Before Maclaren had finished his course of study he was invited to Portland Chapel in Southampton for three months; those three months became twelve years. He began his ministry there on June 28, 1846. His name and fame grew.
His ministry fell into a quiet routine for which he was always grateful: two sermons on Sunday, a Monday prayer meeting and a Thursday service and lecture. His parishioners thought his sermons to them were the best he ever preached. In April 1858 he was called to be minister at Union Chapel in Manchester. No ministry could have been happier. The church prospered and a new building had to be erected to seat 1,500; every sitting was taken. His renown as preacher spread throughout the English-speaking world. His pulpit became his throne. He was twice elected President of the Baptist Union. He resigned as pastor in 1905 after a ministry of forty-five years.
Maclaren's religious life was hid with Christ in God. He walked with God day by day. He loved Jesus Christ with a reverent, holy love and lived to make Him known. In his farewell sermon at Union he said: "To efface oneself is one of a preacher's first duties."
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