Log of 1999 updates at Phil Johnson's Web site.

FOR THE TWO+ MONTHS ENDING 1 January 2000:

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 30 October 1999:

1. Darkness Before the Dawn
2. "My Garden"—"His Garden"
3. The Great Change—formatted and submitted by Adam Paul.
4. "This Thing Is from Me"

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 23 October 1999:

1. Dilemma and Deliverance
2. "Let Us Pray"
3. A Woman's Memorial

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 16 October 1999:

1. The Bed and Its Covering
2. The Best of Masters
3. The Blind Beggar
4. The Call of Abraham
5. The Ceremony of Laying the First Stone of the New Tabernacle
6. The Chaff Driven Away
7. Christ's Estimate of His People
8. Come and Welcome
9. Distinguishing Grace
10. A Divided Heart
11. An Earnest Invitation
12. Faith Illustrated
13. Grieving the Holy Spirit
14. His Name—the Mighty God
15. A Home Mission Sermon
16. How Saints May Help the Devil
17. Limiting God
18. Man's Ruin and God's Remedy
19. Mr. Fearing Comforted
20. One Antidote for Many Ills
21. Paul's Desire to Depart
22. Prayer Answered, Love Nourished
23. The Saviour's Many Crowns
24. The Scales of Judgment
25. The Sweet Uses of Adversity
26. The Tabernacle of the Most High
27. A Vision of the Latter-Day Glories
28. War! War! War!
29. The Way to God
30. Who Can Tell?
31. The Wounds of Jesus

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 9 October 1999:

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 2 October 1999:

1. Corn in Egypt
2. The Fainting Warrior
3. Hypocrisy
4. Reform
5. The Shameful Sufferer

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 25 September 1999:

1. "As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength Be"
2. Confession and Absolution
3. The Conversion of Saul of Tarsus
4. Everybody's Sermon
5. The Fatherhood of God
6. A Free Salvation
7. The Heavenly Race
8. His Name—The Counsellor
9. His Name—Wonderful!
10. A Lecture for Little-Faith
11. The Mission of the Son of Man
12. The New Heart
13. The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
14. Righteous Hatred
15. The Spies
16. The Sympathy of the Two Worlds
17. The Voice of the Blood of Christ
18. The Way of Salvation
19. The Wicked Man's Life, Funeral, and Epitaph

Those messages include the remaining sermons from Volume 4 of the New Park Street Pulpit sermons—our fourth completed volume.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 18 September 1999:

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 11 September 1999:

1. Alive or Dead—Which?
2. Believing on Jesus, and Its Counterfeits
3. Between the Two Appearings
4. Bit and Bridle: How to Escape Them
5. A Call to Prayer and Testimony
6. Christ Glorified as the Builder of His Church
7. The Cry Of The Heathen
8. The Desolations of the Lord, the Consolation of His Saints
9. The Destroyer Destroyed
10. Entangled in the Land
11. The Glorious Gospel
12. Heaven's Nurse Children
13. The Holy Spirit and the One Church
14. Human Responsibility
15. Jehovah-Shammah: A Glorious Name for the New Year
16. Jesus—"All Blessing and All Blest"
17. Joy Born at Bethlehem
18. The Joyous Return
19. Looking Unto Jesus
20. Our Expectation
21. Our Manifesto
22. A Poor Man's Cry, and What Came of It
23. Praises and Vows Accepted in Zion
24. A Present Religion
25. A Private Enquiry
26. The Redeemer's Prayer
27. Sleep Not
28. The Sunday-School Teacher—A Steward
29. A Visit to the Harvest Field
30. The Work of the Holy Spirit
31. The World Turned Upside Down

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 4 September 1999:

• Hints on the Voice: For Young Preachers
  

  "Abhor the practice of some men, who will not bring out the letter 'r,' such a habit is 'vewy wuinous and wediculous, vewy wetched and wepwehensible.'"

• Messrs. Moody and Sankey in Great Britian
  

  "Of the work in London, we can only say that various opinions are held, but no one can doubt that the two beloved workers did their utmost to bring down a blessing, and that in a measure the blessing did come."

• Mr. Newton and the "Brethren"
  

  "You have mentioned his name in your remarks in such a way as may lead to the impression that he is a leader of one party of the "Brethren." The fact is, that on almost every important point, he is altogether opposed to their views and practices."

• Our First Sermon
  

  "'How old are you?' was the leading question. 'I am under sixty,' was the reply. 'Yes, and under sixteen,' was the old lady's rejoinder. 'Never mind my age, think of the Lord Jesus and his preciousness,' was all that I could say."

• Plymouth Brethren
  

  "We have so little faith in the spirit which inspires the Brethren, that we endure their thunderbolts as calmly as we would those of the other infallible gentleman who occupies the Vatican."

• Spurgeon on the Moody-Sankey Campaigns, 1875
  

  "It has given us much pleasure to assist our brethren Messrs. Moody and Sankey at Camberwell Hall, and we would have done far more, only our own enterprises demand our constant attention: our heart is very warm towards them for their work's sake."

• Spurgeonism
  

  "There is no word in the world so hateful to our heart as that word Spurgeonism, and no thought further from our soul than that of forming a new sect. . . . We preach no new gospel, we desire no new objects, and follow them in no novel spirit."

• Spurgeonism Again!
  

  "We accept the hint . . . and shall feel less than ever inclined to be silent, while on all hands the vaunted Liberalism is so clamorous."

• Street Preaching
  

  "Just now I observe that nothing can be done without a very large Bagster's Bible with a limp cover. There seems to be some special charm about the large size, though it almost needs a little perambulator in which to push it about."

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 28 August 1999:

OK. Here's a bunch of stuff to help make up for all my recent down time. PS: Speaking of down time, the Grace to You computer that hosts my Web site and somehow fried one of its own circuit boards Thursday night and was down for the entire weekend. We're sorry for the inconvenience, but grateful to Bill Fickett and Mark Wragg, who worked for days, right through the weekend, to get the Web server back on line and back to normal.

Added a Collection of Material on the Down-Grade Controversy

Facsimile copies of the following documents were compiled by Bob Ross and published by Pilgrim Publications, Pasadena, TX, in a volume titled The "Down Grade" Controversy. That volme is the source of this material.

1. 1887 Sword and Trowel Preface
2. The Down Grade (March 1887)
3. The Down Grade (April, 1887)
4. NOTES (from the April 1887 Sword and Trowel)
5. Another Word Concerning the Down-Grade (August, 1887)
6. Our Reply to Sundry Critics and Enquirers (September, 1887)
7. The Case Proved (October, 1887)
8. A Fragment Upon the Down-Grade Controversy (November, 1887)
9. Restoration of Truth and Revival (December, 1887)
10. NOTES (from the December 1887 _Sword and Trowel_)
11. 1888 _Sword and Trowel_ Preface
12. The Baptist Union Censure (February, 1888)
13. NOTES (from the March 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
14. Progressive Theology (April, 1888)
15. NOTES (from the April 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
16. NOTES (from the May 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
17. NOTES (from the June 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
18. NOTES (from the July 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
19. NOTES (from the August 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
20. Current Religious Perils (September, 1888)
21. NOTES (from the September 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
22. NOTES (from the October 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
23. NOTES (from the November 1888 _Sword and Trowel_)
24. Attempts at the Impossible (December, 1888)
25. NOTES (from the January 1889 _Sword and Trowel_)
26. Questions for "Down-grade" Doubters (March, 1889)
27. NOTES (from the May 1889 _Sword and Trowel_)
28. NOTES (from the June 1889 _Sword and Trowel_)
29. This Must Be a Soldiers' Battle (December, 1889)
30. NOTES (from the February 1890 _Sword and Trowel_)
31. NOTES (from the May 1891 _Sword and Trowel_)
32. "Mr. Spurgeon's Confession of Faith" (August, 1891 )
33. A Sermon for the Time Present (October 30, 1887)
34. The "Down-grade" Controversy, from Mr. Spurgeon's Standpoint (From Spurgeon's Autobiography

Added more material from The Sword and the Trowel:

1. Sword & Trowel Tract #32, "The Ritualist Priest and the Ass"
2. Sword & Trowel Tract #33, "A Fable for the Times"
3. Dr. Pusey on the Worship of Mary in the Church of Rome

Added lots of sermons to

1. The Broken Column
2. Christ Lifted Up
3. Climbing the Mountain
4. David's Dying Prayer
5. Fast-Day Service
6. Fire! Fire! Fire!
7. Five Fears
8. The Good Man's Life and Death
9. Heavenly Rest
10. Independence of Christianity
11. India's Ills and England's Sorrows
12. The Infallibility of God's Purpose
13. Instability
14. Jacob's Waking Exclamation
15. Jehovah Tsidkenu: The Lord Our Righteousness
16. Job's Sure Knowledge
17. The Joint Heirs and Their Divine Portion
18. The New Nature
19. Our Miseries, Messengers of Mercy
20. Natural or Spiritual?
21. A Peal of Bells
22. Prayer—the Forerunner of Mercy
23. A Preacher from the Dead
24. The Security of the Church
25. A Sermon for the Time Present
26. A Simple Sermon for Seeking Souls
27. The Sound in the Mulberry Trees
28. Substitution
29. Supposing Him to be the Gardener
30. Things That Accompany Salvation
31. The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem
32. The True Christian's Blessedness
33. Unbelievers Upbraided
34. Waiting Only Upon God

Those messages include the remaining sermons from Volume 3 of the New Park Street Pulpit sermons—our third completed volume. Also, "Supposing Him to be the Gardener" (#1699) has for the past five years been the single sermon requested by visitors to more than any other. We're pleased to have it on line.

FOR THE ERA ENDING 21 August 1999:

1. Commendation for the Steadfast
2. Obadiah; or, Early Piety Eminent Piety
3. Songs of Deliverance

. . . No excuses; no long explanation. I've just been busy.

FOR THE TWO WEEKS ENDING 27 February 1999:

1. Christ Manifesting Himself to His People
2. Chastisement
3. Comfort for the Desponding
4. Conversion
5. The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
6. The God of Peace
7. The Holy Ghost—The Great Teacher
8. The Hope of Future Bliss
9. The Necessity of Increased Faith
10. Preach the Gospel
11. Repentance Unto Life
12. Storming the Battlements
13. What Are the Clouds?
14. A Wise Desire

Those 14 messages complete Volume 1 of the New Park Street Pulpit sermons—our second completed volume. (Volume 2 was completed a few weeks ago.)

FOR THE WEEKS ENDING 13 February 1999:

1. Christ About His Father's Business
2. The Uses of the Law

FOR THE WEEK ENDING 23 January 1999:

1. Be sure you have the 1.1 version (or higher) of AvantGo installed on your desktop and Palm Pilot© computers. The download is available for free from the AvantGo Web Site. (For help setting up and using AvantGo, see the online Documentation.)
2. Subscribe to channels of your choice via the AdvantGo Web to Go Index. (There is a page of choices in the Religion category. An option to install as a channel should soon be available there.)
3. To install The Spurgeon Archive as a channel manually, start AvantGo Desktop by selecting the icon from your Start Button, under Programs, AvantGo DeskTop.
4. In the AvantGo DeskTop window, Select Channel, New.
5. A new channel will be created for you. You will need to fill in the information as follows:

That should do it, and the channel will refresh automatically every time you hotsync your Palm Pilot©. Morning and Evening selections are automatically updated daily. Enjoy.

Oh, by the way, the daily sermon will not change until I work out a way to break the sermons into segments automatically, to get around AvantGo's 32K file size limitation. Plans are also underway to add daily readings from Faith's Checkbook.

FOR THE WEEKS ENDING 16 January 1999:

A note from Phil: HAPPY NEW YEAR! I'm going to do my best to make up for the many weeks last year when nothing new was posted. I'm planning to complete all the volumes of the New Park Street Sermons, and several volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit before the end of this year. I'm well-supplied with transcripts at the moment, thanks to all who have been submitting sermons even while I have been busy with other things. So please hold off sending any more until you hear from me. My heartfelt gratitude goes to all who have submitted sermons. Thanks for your faithfulness and patience.

Added an article on Spurgeon's smoking: Spurgeon's Love of Fine Cigars

Also added several sermons:

1. Confession Of Sin Illustrated by the Cases of Dr. Pritchard and Constance Kent
2. Creation's Groans and the Saints' Sighs
3. The Duty of Remembering the Poor (This message completes Volume 2 of the New Park Street Pulpit sermons—our first completed volume.)
4. The Kingly Priesthood of the Saints
5. The First Sermon in the Tabernacle—transcribed by Gordon Mair
6. The Loved Ones Chastened—transcribed and formatted by Bruce A. Miller
7. Providence—transcribed and formatted by Bruce A. Miller
8. The Solar Eclipse

Note: A record of last year's updates is available.