Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. SPURGEON'S BOOKS ARE, _SERMONS_,... _Eight Series_. $1.50 each. _MORNING BY MORNING._ 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1.75. IN PRESS: _EVENING BY EVENING_, By REV. C. H. SPURGEON. 1 volume. 12mo. Price $1.75. GLEANINGS AMONG THE SHEAVES. BY REV. C. H. SPURGEON. _SECOND EDITION._ New York: SHELDON AND COMPANY, 498 & 500 BROADWAY. 1869. TO THE NUMEROUS HEARERS AND TO THE INNUMERABLE READERS OF THE _REV. C. H. SPURGEON'S SERMONS,_ This unpretentious little Volume IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED _BY THE PUBLISHERS_. THE STEMS GROW UP EVERY WEEK: THE SHOCKS APPEAR ONCE A MONTH: THE SHEAVES ARE BOUND TOGETHER ONCE A YEAR: And it is thought that these samples, gleaned from the Sermons, will be welcome to many, but chiefly to those who are most familiar with the ample fields from which they are gathered. GLEANINGS AMONG THE SHEAVES. _The Preciousness of the Promises._ The promises of God are to the believer an inexhaustible mine of wealth. Happy is it for him if he knows how to search out their secret veins, and enrich himself with their hid treasures. They are an armory, containing all manner of offensive and defensive weapons. Blessed is he who has learned to enter into the sacred arsenal, to put on the breastplate and the helmet, and to lay his hand to the spear and to the sword. They are a surgery, in which the believer will find all manner of restoratives and blessed elixirs; nor lacks there an ointment for every wound, a cordial for every faintness, a remedy for every disease. Blessed is he who is well skilled in heavenly pharmacy, and knoweth how to lay hold on the healing virtues of the promises of God. The promises are to the Christian a storehouse of food. They are as the granaries which Joseph built in Egypt, or as the golden pot wherein the manna was preserved. Blessed is he who can take the five barley loaves and fishes of promise, and break them till his five thousand necessities shall all be supplied, and he is able to gather up baskets full of fragments. The promises are the Christian's Magna Charta of liberty; they are the title deeds of his heavenly estate. Happy is he who knoweth how to read them well, and call them all his own. Yea, they are the jewel room in which the Christian's crown treasures are preserved. The regalia are his, secretly to admire to-day, which he shall openly wear in Paradise hereafter. He is already privileged as a king with the silver key that unlocks the strong room; he may even now grasp the sceptre, wear the crown, and put upon his shoulders the imperial mantle. O, how unutterably rich are the promises of our faithful, covenant-keeping God!