PASTOR’S SKETCHES
by Ichabod S. Spencer
"Conversations with Anxious Inquirers
Respecting the Way of Savation"
PASTOR’S SKETCHES (Part One)
PASTOR’S SKETCHES (Part Two)
PASTOR’S SKETCHES
(Part One)
Spencer's Sketches: Introduction
Chapter 1 — The Young Irishman
Chapter 2 — Faith Everything.
Chapter 3 — Simplicity of Faith
Chapter 4 — Waiting for the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 5 — Business Hindrance.
Chapter 6 — Waiting for Conviction
Chapter 7 — Not Discouraged
Chapter 8 — Reliance On Man
Chapter 9 — Bad Advice
Chapter 10 — The Whole Heart
Chapter 11 — The Welsh Woman and Her Tenant.
Chapter 12 — The Holy Spirit Resisted
Chapter 13 — The Heart Promised
Chapter 14 — Fixed Despair.
Chapter 15 — Total Depravity.
Chapter 16 — Ignorance of Self.
Chapter 17 — Superficial Convictions.
Chapter 18 — Excitement.
Chapter 19 — Ashamed of Christ.
Chapter 20 — The Last Step.
Chapter 21 — The Persecuted Wife.
Chapter 22 — The Arrow Driven Deeper.
Chapter 23 — Divided Mind.
Chapter 24 — Human Resolves.
Chapter 25 — I Cant Repent.
Chapter 26 — A Strange Snare.
Chapter 27 — Fanaticism.
Chapter 28 — A Mothers Prayer.
Chapter 29 — Easy to be a Christian.
Chapter 30 — Proselyting.
Chapter 31 — The Obstinate Girl.
Chapter 32 — Conviction Resisted.
Chapter 33 — Determination.
Chapter 34 — The Miserable Heart.
Chapter 35 — Unconditional Submission.
Chapter 36 — The Unpardonable Sin.
Chapter 37 — Election.
Chapter 38 — The Brown Jug.
Chapter 39 — The Harvest Past.
Chapter 40 — Doctrines and Death.
Note: An insightful article on dealing with cases of depression was written Jonathan Edwards. This peice is not found in Spencer's Sketches, but we have included it here as a work worthy of reading on this important subject
Jonathan Edwards.
Pastor’s Sketches
(Part Two)
by Ichabod S. Spencer
Table of Contents.
Preface
Chapter 1 --- The Universalist's Daughter
Chapter 2 --- The Lost Child
Chapter 3 --- The Stormy Night
Chapter 4 --- The Choice
Chapter 5 --- The Neglected Bible
Chapter 6 --- No Escape
Chapter 7 --- Date of Conversion
Chapter 8 --- My Old Mother
Chapter 9 --- One Word To A Sinner
Chapter 10 -- Nobody Said Anything To Me
Chapter 11 -- Family Prayer
Chapter 12 -- Doctrines Reconciled
Chapter 13 -- I Can't Pray
Chapter 14 -- I Can't Feel
Chapter 15 -- Willing To Be Lost
Chapter 16 -- The Bird of Paradise
Chapter 17 -- Superstition
Chapter 18 -- The Whistling Thinker
Chapter 19 -- Unconscious Conversion
Chapter 20 -- Ceasing to Pray
Chapter 21 -- Continuing to Pray
Chapter 22 -- Human Ability
Chapter 23 -- The Faults of Christians
Chapter 24 -- Trying to find God in the Wrong
Chapter 25 -- Delay, or, the Accepted Time
Chapter 26 -- Physical Influence
Chapter 27 -- Treatment of the Desponding
Chapter 28 -- The Unknown Presence of the Spirit
Chapter 29 -- A Revival is Coming
Chapter 30 -- The Broken Resolution
Chapter 31 -- What Can I Do?
Chapter 32 -- Religion and Rum
Chapter 33 -- The Word of a Companion
Chapter 34 -- Fasting and Prayer
Chapter 35 -- God Reigns or Despair
Chapter 36 -- The Last Hour
Chapter 37 -- The Dawn of Heaven