John Ploughman's Talks / Spurgeon, Charles H / (HC/1918-1918/B-/USED)

*Binding beginning to fray and separate. Light underlining and owner's marks. Corners of some pages chipped readability not affected. *

In John Ploughman's Talks, I have written for plowmen and common people. Hence refined taste and dainty words have been discarded for strong proverbial expressions and homely phrases. I have aimed my blows at the vices of the many, and tried to inculcate those moral virtues without which men are degraded. Much that needs to be said to the toiling masses would not well suit the pulpit and the Sabbath; these lowly pages may teach thrift and industry all the days of the week in the cottage and the workshop; and if some learn these lessons I shall not repent the adoption of a rustic style.
Ploughman is a name I may justly claim. Every minister has put his hand to the plow; and it is his business to break up the fallow ground. That I have written in a semi-humorous vein needs no apology, since thereby sound moral teaching has gained a hearing from at least 300,000 persons. There is no particular virtue in being seriously unreadable.

Table of Contents

Idleness
Seizing Opportunities
Keeping One's Eyes Open
Things Not Worth Trying
Debts
Spending
Hints as to Thriving
Try

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