Around the Wicket Gate
Charles H. Spurgeon · A Book for Anyone Who Wishes to Come to Christ
About this book
Around the Wicket Gate is a short evangelistic classic by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), the English Baptist pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London known as the “Prince of Preachers.” First published in 1891 (also issued as How to Bring Men to Christ), it takes its title and central picture from the Wicket Gate in John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress — the narrow gate at the head of the way of life — and is written for the reader who has come near to that gate but hesitates to go through it.
In twelve short chapters Spurgeon works through the reasons people give for delaying faith — fear, doubt, difficulty in believing, a cherished sin, endless questions — and answers each one with a single, repeated appeal: simple, immediate, wholehearted trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. This UECF.NET web edition follows the public-domain text of the book (Project Gutenberg eBook #60669) and preserves Spurgeon’s chapter order, headings and wording.
- 12 Sections
- 18,160 words
- ≈ 83 min read
- 1891
- Public Domain
- English
Source text: Around the Wicket Gate, C. H. Spurgeon (public domain; Project Gutenberg eBook #60669). The book is also available as a free audiobook, read by MaryAnn Spiegel for LibriVox, and as a scanned PDF, at the Internet Archive. This web edition is presented for online reading in the UECF.NET Christian Books Library; the underlying text is in the public domain.