Required reading
Lectures to my students by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 6 (Books of fables, emblems, and parables) by reading up to the paragraph beginning with 'Now, coming to parables proper, the best thing I can do for you, brethren, is to indicate where you will find some of them. And, first there is a large number, as you all know, in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress'.
My summary
Today the book reviews on fables and parables continue.
We are given recommendations for work by:
(i) Austen;
(ii) Flavel.
What grabbed me
I liked this metaphor from Flavel: 'Husbandmen find low ground and valleys most fertile. Hills, how loftily soever they overtop the lower grounds, yet answer not the husbandman's pains as the valleys do. These are best watered, and secured from the scorching heat of the sun. Experience shows us that the humblest saints are most fruitful under the gospel. These are they who 'receive with meekness the engrafted word' (James 1:21).'
A humble state has great potential.
Next week's reading
Conclude Chapter 6 (Books of fables, emblems, and parables).
Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.
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