In Sam Jones' autobiography he talks about the impact that a single volume of Spurgeon's sermons had on him, I'm trying to figure out which volume that is.
This volume would have been in reference to a volume of sermons that would have been available in 1873 to 1875, and is referred to here simply as 'the fifth volume of Spurgeon's Sermons.' Any Ideas anyone?
When I entered upon my work in this circuit, I had three books—the Bible,[b]the fifth volume of Spurgeon's Sermons[/b] , and some old volume of skeletons of sermons. Of course, my Bible was the book of all books to me, but I read and reread that volume of Spurgeon's sermons, until my soul and nature was stirred with the spirit of the man. I remember how I have frequently read the text of one of his sermons and then read his sermon; then I would read my text and, say: "If Spurgeon treated his text that way, how shall I treat mine?" And much of the directness of my style I owe to Spurgeon, the grandest preacher of this nineteenth century, if what a man does is a test of what a man is.
