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Notices of Books (continued)-

Spirit, 143; Emmanuel, 373, 547; Epistle to the
Hebrews, 640; Estella, 289; Eternal Life, 600;
Expositor, The, 83, 595; Expository Sermons,
84: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, 376.
Faithful Men, 83; Fatherly Chastisement, 431;
Father Revealed, The, 499; Father's Benjamin,
549; Fathoms Deep, 289; Feast of Sacrifice,
145; Fighting the Good Fight, 242; Fireside,
The, 37; First Principles of Faith, 240; Fisher
Folk, 549; Fisher Village, 602; Fletcher of
Madeley, 551; Foreign Mission Work, 641;
Forewarned, Forearmed, 599; 66 For Good
Consideration," 292; Fortunate Men, 41; Four
Centuries of Silence, 595; Four-square, 191;
Free England, 188; Fresh Diggings, 639;
Friendly Greetings, 548; From the "Beginning"
to the "Glory," 39; Full Assurance of Faith,
287; Full Salvation, 144; Fulness of Joy, 548.
Gadsby's Sermons, 144; Galilee in the Time of
Christ, 506; Gipsy Queen, 501; Girls' and
Boys' Annuals, 597; Gleanings Among the
Sheaves, 546; Good News for Children, 83;
Gordon Anecdotes, 374; Gospel Alphabet, 143;
Gospel and the Child, 39; Gospel Chorus Book,
190; Gotthold's Emblems, 287; Graham
McCall's Victory, 36; Great Cloud of Witnesses,
377; Greek Testament, 431.

Hard Battles for Life and Usefulness, 87;
Harry's Catechism, 193; Herald of Mercy, 83,
598; His Personal Presence, 552; History of
the Christian Church, 377; Hints on Health,
91; Hints to our Boys, 553; Hodder and
Stoughton's "Sunday Library" Issues, 549;
Holiness, 640; Homiletical Commentary, 85,
290, 373; Homiletic Magazine, 597; Home
Friend, 35; Homely Talks, 639; Hugh McCal-
mont, 551; Hymns and Choruses, 242.
"I come Quickly," 548; Illustrations of Ful-
filled Prophecy, 144; Immortality, 644; India,
140; Ingersoll, the American Atheist, 89;
In Memoriam-Baldwin Brown, 87; Intel-
lectual Principles, 37; In the Light, 141; In
the Time of Jesus, 599; In the Volume of the
Book, 40; Invisible Realities, 243; Ivy Chim-
nies, 509.

Jacob Jennings, 549; Jeanne d'Arc, 87; Jenny
Lawson, 549; Jim Bentley's Resolve, 503;
John Knox, 140; John Ploughman's Al-
manack, 593; Johnsoniana, 36; Joy of the
Ministry, 287; Judges, Book of, 643.
Kant on Perpetual Peace, 192; Kate's Mother,
501; King's Chambers, The, 506; King's
Scholars, 503; King's Windows, The, 599;
Kissing, 376.

Latin Prose, 500; Law of Liberty, 377; Law of
the Ten Words, 191; Law on Ephesians, 595;
Laws of Christ for Common Life, 238; Lays
of Lowly Service, 242; Lectures on Baptism,
431; Liddon's Sermons, 644; Life and
Holiness, 144: Life and Work in Benares,
291; Life and Work of St. Paul, 377;
Life in Hospital, 641; Life of Calvin, 141;
Life of St. Paul, 239; Life's Pleasure Garden,
187; Life's Warfare and Victory, 40; Light of
the World, 142; Lilies, 377; Lindsey on Mark
and the Acts, 640; Lily Hope, 642; Little Dot,
190; Little Folks, 90; Little One's Picture
Paper, 597; Little Ted, 36; Lives Great and
Simple, 187; Lord is Coming, The, 640; Lord
Mayor, The, 138; Lord of the Marches, 289;
Lost Son, 641; Loveday's History, 90; Love
Revealed, 89.

Magna Charta Stories, 189; Manual of Biblical
Geography, 373, 431; Man with the Knapsack,
84; Marion and Augusta, 504; Martin Luther,
291; Meditations of the Heart, 598; Memoir
of Mrs. Sandeman, 140; Memoirs of James
Begg, 243; Memorials of J. D. Freeman, 434;
Messenger for the Children, 83; Messengers
to the Seven Churches, 239: Metaphors of the
Gospels, 375; Methodist Family, 83; Metho-

Notices of Books (continued)-

dist Ritualism, 600; Methodist Worthies, 35,
291; Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, 35;
Mind and Brain, 641; Minister's Diary, 40;
Missionary Herald, 82; Modern Philosophers,
192; Moments on the Mount, 375; Monte
Carlo and Public Opinion, 36; More Bits
from Blinkbonny, 36; More Half-hours with
my Girls, 550; Mornington Lecture, 546;
Mother's Friend, 37; Musical Emigrants, 190;
Musical Miller, 548; My Friends, 88; My
Sermon Notes, 236; Mysteries of God, 236;
Mystery of Miracles, 552; Mystery of the Uni-
verse, 500.

National Temperance Congress, 41; National
Temperance Mirror, 90, 598; Nation's Vice,
The, 139; New Creature, The, 600; New Jeru-
salem, The, 500; Night Musings, 599; No
Condemnation, 434; Non-Christian Religious
Systems, 287; Norman and Elsie, 502; Nor-
wegian Pictures, 597; Notes for Boys, 377.
Oakhurst Chronicles, 189; Old Highways in
China, 432; Old Jonathan, 37; Old Testament
Characters, 85; Old Testament Prophecy, 435;
One Good Turn Deserves Another, 501; On
the Shore, 189; Other Lives than Ours, 90;
Our Blue Jackets, 141; Our Darlings, 37; Our
Daughters, 594; Our Own Magazine, 37; Our
Parish, 548; Our Young People's Treasury,
373; Out of Egypt, 40.

Parables of Our Lord, 599; Paraleipomena, 372;
Parochial Missing Link, 193; Pastor's Diary,
84: Patty Thorne's Adventure, 642; Peace
of God, 644; Pearls from the East, 375;
Pentateuch, 639; Philip Henry, 291; Pictures
and Emblems, 600; Platform Echoes, 598;
Plenteous Redemption, 433; Plodding on,
183; Pocket Dictionary, 40; Postman, The,
82; Prasanna, etc., 435; Prayer Power, 547;
Prayer that Teaches to Pray, 89; Preacher's
Analyst, 82; Preacher's Commentary, 239;
Preacher's Monthly, 143, 434; Present Day
Tracts, 596; Price's Sermons, 288; Primer
of Bible Geography, 84; Primer of Christian
Evidence, 372; Profit Sharing, 374; Prophets of
the Old Testament, 290; Pulpit Bible, 290;
Pulpit Commentary, 40, 290, 643; Punchi
Nona, 36.

Quiver, The, 37, 371; Rabinnical Commentary
on Genesis, 600; Rambles and Scrambles, 553;
Reality of Faith, 89; Record of Ruth, 641;
Religion without God, etc., 552; Reply to
Ryle's Tract on Baptism, 86; Revelation, etc.,
288;
"River Singers," 242; Robert and Mary
Moffat, 594; Robinson Crusoe, 38; Roll of
Golden Thoughts, 638; Romanism, 241; Royal
Cupbearer, 86; Royal Gems, etc., 242; Ruin
of Fleet Street, 546; Ruth, the Moabitess, 287.
Sacred Themes, etc., 431; St. Paul, 288; Samoa
a Hundred Years Ago, 140; Saturday Night,
546; Saving to the Uttermost, 500; Scarlet
Anemones, 38; Scenes from the Life of Jesus,
286; Scenes in the Early World, 373; School
Classics, 641; Schooner on the Beach, 503;
Scripture Biography, 375; Secret of Ashton
Manor, 503; Seeking After God, 241; Sefton
Boys, 90; Self-Help for Women, 189: Ser-
mons on the New Testament, 292; Services of
Song. 638; Shoes of Peace, 600; Short Bio-
graphies, 593; Shorter Catechism, 85; Short
Comments on the Gospels, 434; Sick-room
Meditations, 145; Sight of Christ, A, 640; Simon
Jaspar, 594; Sketches and Studies, 433; Sketches
of Methodism, 641; Sonnets on the Parables,
142; Souls and Cities, 503; Spiritual Life, 432 ;
Spitalfields Genius, 140; Spurgeon's Almanack,
506; Stalker's Life of Christ, 187; Stanley Gra-
hame, 289; Star in the Crown, 504; Stories from
the Bible, 242; Stories of the Sea, 36; Stories
Out of School Time, 502; Story after Story,
189; Story of Joseph, 86; Story of the Life of
Jesus, 142; Stray Leaves from my Life Story,

Notices of Books (continued) —

82; Student's Commentary, 191; Studies in
St. John, 191; Sunbeam of the Factory, 504;
Sunday Library issues, 505; Sunday Read-
ings, 644; Sunday School Hymn Book,
190; Sunday School Union Publications, 597;
Sunday Words, 506; Sunrise in the Wilder-
ness, 550; Sunshine, 37; Sunshine of Religion,
376; Supernatural in Nature, 433; Sword and
Trowel, 35; System of Christian Doctrine, 236.
Table of the Lord, 371; Taken or Left, 549;
Teacher's Storehouse, 83; Teaching and
Teachers, 238; Temperance Annual, 90, 286;
Temperance Tales, 188; Teresa's Secret, 642;
Texts for Seamen, 193; There's a Friend
for Little Children, 549; Thirty Thousand
Thoughts, 89; This Year, 138; Thoughts
for Sunrise, 40; Thoughts on Baptism,
86; Three Apostles of Quakerism, 546;
Through Egypt, Palestine, etc., 240; Tom;
or, a Woman's Work, 501; Tom Tit and
his Friends, 189; Tongue of Fire, 552; To
the Light through the Cross, 85; Translation
of the Old Testament, 505; Treasury of David,
593; True to the Old Flag, 289; Two Aspects
of the Sabbath, 241; Two Crowns, 502; Two
London Homes, 289; Two Sisters, The, 38;
Two Snowy Christmas Eves, 504.
Unwilling Witness, 289; Up High, 640; Ursula
Vivian, 189; Village Story, 503.
Walker's Sermons, 435; Water Drinkers of the
Bible, 90; Wee Davie, 190; Welcome, The, 37;
Well-being of Nations, 374; What I saw in
India, 146; What saith the Scriptures? 436;
What shall we name,it? 188; White as Snow,
40; White Swans, 638; Who are the Baptists?
85; Whittaker's Almanack, 35; William Fair-
lie Clarke, 551; Wind and Wave, 90; Women
of the Bible, 373; Won over, 504; Work and
Adventure in New Guinea, 432; Work of the
Holy Ghost, 143; World of Proverb and Para-
ble, 138; Wounded in the House of his Friends,
39; Zechariah, 643.

Year's Ministry, A, 84; You're me and I'm you,
242; Zoological Photographs, 36.

Not Needed or Not Wanted

Obedient Babies

...

126

Proof of Sonship
Prudent Dealing

Read, Dr. D.:

The New Theology
Rescue Society
Revival in Summer Time
Rogers, The Rev. George:
On Perfection

Romance of Missions in Bithynia

Sayings of Old Mr. Dod
Seen of James

Shindler, R.:

William Kellner

Slight Anachronism

104

Society of Evangelists, Account for 1884
Society of Evangelists, Receipts, 48, 102, 152, 200,
252, 304, 384, 448, 512, 560, 608, 652.
Spurgeon, C. H.: Another Note of Warning, 397;
Be Plain, 263; Better Closed than Open, 133;
Burdensome Stone, A, 224; Carry a Light,
269; Cavern of Modern Thought, 181; Con-
cerning the Doom of the Wicked, 627; Con-
cerning the Present Dangers, 587; Congrega-
tion of Frogs. 182; Crazy Criticism, 534;
Disruption, The, 49, 111; Drowning Bee, 490;
Faith looking into the Barrel of Meal, 225;
Forge, The, 545; Fruitful Fig Tree, 260; Green
Rose, The, 363; Hard Books, 269; Hurried
Glance across the Wild Waves, 609; Jesus
Asleep on a Pillow, 1; Jesus the Great Object
of Astonishment, 153; Keep the Roads Clear,
129; Kind of Revival Wanted, 513; Mentone
from the Hôtel d'Italie, 163, Mrs. Spurgeon's
Book Fund, 105; On Eagles' Wings, 343; Pray
without Ceasing, 484; Psalm CXLVIII., 469;.
Short and Stirring, 356; Showers and Water-
falls, 118; Sinful Silence, 465; Sunlight for
Cloudy Days, 202; Treasury of David, 468;
Trouble not the Master, 561; Trying to Believe,
474; Ungrateful Bee, 526; Unreasonable Com-
plaint, An 66; Use Plain Saxon, 164; War
Song, A. 169; Will he never have done? 259;
Windmills or Butter Pats, 349.
Spurgeon, Robert: Concealed Danger
Spurgeon, Thomas: Christmas on the Canal,
61; Gossips, 527; Looking unto Jesus, 484;
Opening of the Auckland Tabernacle, 401;
Signs of the Times, The, 369; Three Telegrams,
The, 7.

Old Timms

415
... 527

249, 302, 382. 440, 510, 558, 606, 648.
Stockwell Orphanage, The

Pike, G. Holden: Bitter Cry of London, 19;
Book Exterminators, 539; Candlish, Dr., 272;
Centenary of Upton Chapel, 210; "Christ has
made a Man of me," 79; Christian Soldiers,
622; Common Lodging Houses, and those who
frequent them, 214; Concerning Tinkers and
Soldiers, 120; Dr. Williams's Library, 235;
Egypt and the Pharaohs, 165; Flower Girls of
London, 130; Gospel in Cowper's Letters, 629;
Gospel in South London, The, 281; Life in
England before the Reformation, 528; Life
Work at Greenwich, A, 583; Open-air Preach-
ing, 494; Phases of Life in St. Giles's, 177;
Popular Credulities, 426; Robert and Mary
Moffat, 521; Suburbs of London, The, 281;
Thief gone to Paradise, A, 27.

Pledge, D.: Letter on Everlasting Punishment 30
Poetry: Fresh Bait, 341; Gossips, 527; Is the
Devil dead? 493; Looking unto Jesus, 484;
Old Man's Story, The, 542; Signs of the Times,
369; War Song, A, 169; Work, for the Day is
coming, 13.

Practical Results of Atheism
Prayer in Affliction

Promptness...

...

406, 635

418

Stingless Bee

Thomas Cooper's " Thoughts"
To Feed on Christ for Ourselves
Townsend, C. W. :

The Puritan Theology
Where to look for the New Theology
Traced to the Source
Treasures of Darkness
Trumbull, Dr. H. C. :

371

110

... 176

285

119

588

425

159

356

478

498

479

Satan and the Sunday-school

Two Workers and Twenty Talkers

Wainwright, George: Work in Ireland
What Good Comes of It?
Whitefield's Burial Place
Wilkins, H.:

Meetness for our Ministry
Wind Yourself up by Prayer
Wood, Robert :

Success in Relation to Obedience...
Wycliff's Preachers

"You Believe it, but don't Preach it "

THE

SWORD AND THE TROWEL.

JANUARY, 1883.

Jesus asleep on a Pillow.

A SERMONETTE BY C. H. SPURGEON.

"And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."-Mark iv. 38, 39.

UR Lord took his disciples with him into the ship to teach them a practical lesson. It is one thing to talk to people about our oneness with them, and about how they should exercise faith in time of danger, and about their real safety in apparent peril; but it is another, and a far better thing, to go into the ship with them, to let them feel all the terror of the storm, and then to arise, and rebuke the wind, and say unto the sea, "Peace, be still." Our Lord gave his disciples a kind of Kindergarten lesson, an acted sermon, in which the truth was set forth visibly before them. Such living teaching produced a wonderful effect upon their lives. May we also be instructed by it.

In our text there are two great calms; the first is the calm of the Saviour's heart, and the second is the calm which he created with a word upon the storm-tossed sea.

WITHIN THE LORD THERE WAS A GREAT CALM, and that is why there was soon a great calm around him; for what is in God comes out of God: since there was a calm in Christ for himself there was afterwards a calm for others.

What a wonderful inner calm it was! "He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow."

He had perfect confidence in God that all was well. The waves might roar, the winds might rage, but he was not at all disquieted by their fury. He knew that the waters were in the hollow of his Father's hand, and that every wind was but the breath of his Father's mouth; and so he was not troubled; nay, he had not even a careful thought, he was as much at ease as on a sunny day. His mind and heart were free from every kind of care, for amid the gathering tempest he deliberately laid himself down, and slept like a weary child. He went to the hinder part of the ship, most out of the dash of the spray; he took a pillow, and put it under his head, and with fixed intent disposed himself to slumber. It was his own act and deed to go to sleep in the storm; he had nothing for which to keep awake, so pure and perfect was his confidence in the great Father. What an example this is to us! We have not half the confidence in God that we ought to have, not even the best of us. The Lord deserves our unbounded belief, our unquestioning confidence, our undisturbed reliance. Oh, that we rendered it to him as the Saviour did!

There was also mixed with his faith in the Father a sweet confidence in his own Sonship. He did not doubt that he was the Son of the Highest. I may not question God's power to deliver, but I may sometimes question my right to expect deliverance; and if so, my comfort vanishes. Our Lord had no doubts of this kind: he had long before heard that word, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased"; he had so lived and walked with God that the witness within him was continuous, and so he had no question about the Father's love to him as his own Son. "Rocked in the cradle of the deep," his Father keeping watch over him-what could a child do better than go to sleep in such a happy position? And so he does. You and I, too, want à fuller assurance of our sonship if we would have greater peace with God. The devil knows that, and therefore he will come to us with his insinuating suggestion, "If thou be the son of God." If we have the Spirit of adoption in us, we shall put the accuser to rout at once, by opposing the witness within to his question from without. Then shall we be filled with a great calm, because we have confidence in our Father, and assurance of our sonship.

Then he had a sweet way-this blessed Lord of ours-of leaving all with God. He takes no watch, he makes no fret; but he goes to sleep. Whatever comes, he has left all in the hands of the great Care-taker; and what more is needful? If a watchman were set to guard my house, I should be foolish if I also sat up for fear of thieves. Why have a watchman if I cannot trust him to watch? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord;" but when thou hast done so, leave it with the Lord, and do not try to carry it thyself. That is to make a mock of God; to have the name of God, but not the reality of God. Lay down every care, even as Jesus did when he went calmly to the hinder part of the ship, and quietly took a pillow, and went to sleep.

But I think I hear some one say, "I could do that if mine were solely care about myself." Yes, perhaps you could; and yet you cannot cast upon God your burden of care about your children. But your Lord trusted the Father with those dear to him. Do you not think that Christ's disciples were as precious to him as our children are to us?

If that ship had been wrecked, what would have become of Peter? What would have become of "that disciple whom Jesus loved"? Our Lord regarded with intense affection those whom he had chosen and called, and who had been with him in his temptation, yet he was quite content to leave them all in the care of his Father, and go to sleep.

You answer, “Yes, but there is a still wider circle of people watching to see what will happen to me, and to the cause of Christ with which I am connected. I am obliged to care, whether I will or no." Is your case, then, more trying than your Lord's? Do you forget that "there were also with him many other little ships"? When the storm was tossing his barque, their little ships were even more in jeopardy; and he cared for them all. He was Lord High Admiral of the Lake of Gennesaret that night. The other ships were a fleet under his convoy, and his great heart went out to them all. Yet he went to sleep, because he had left in his Father's care even the solicitudes of his charity and sympathy. We, my brethren, who are much weaker than he, shall find strength in doing the same.

Having left everything with his Father, our Lord did the very wisest thing possible. He did just what the hour demanded. Why," say you, "he went to sleep!" That was the best thing Jesus could do; and sometimes it is the best thing we can do. Christ was weary and worn, and when a man is exhausted it is his duty to go to sleep if he can. The Saviour must be up again in the morning, preaching and working miracles, and if he does not sleep he will not be fit for his holy duty; it is incumbent upon him to keep himself in trim for his service. Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more bad we literally gone to sleep. To glorify God by sleep is not so difficult as some might think; at least, to our Lord it was natural. Here you are worried, sad, wearied; the doctor prescribes for you; his medicine does you no good; but oh! if you enter into full peace with God, and go to sleep, you will wake up infinitely more refreshed than by any drug. The sleep which the Lord giveth to his beloved is balm indeed. Seek it as Jesus sought it. Go to bed, brother, and you will better imitate your Lord than by putting yourself into ill humour, and worrying other people.

There is a spiritual sleep in which we ought to imitate Jesus. How often I have worried my poor brain about my great church; until I have come to my senses, and then I have said to myself, "How foolish you are! Can you not depend upon God? Is it not far more his cause than yours?" Then I have taken my load in prayer, and left it with the Lord: I have said, "in God's name this matter shall never worry me again," and I have left my urgent care with him, and ended it for ever. I have so deliberately given up many a trying case into the Lord's care that when any of my friends have said to me, "What about so and so?" I have simply answered, "I do not know, and I am no longer careful to know. The Lord will interpose in some way or other, but I will trouble no more about it." No mischief has ever come through any matter which I have left in the divine keeping. The staying of my hand has been wisdom. "Stand still, and see the salvation of God," is God's own precept. Here let us follow Jesus. Having a

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