Volume 2: Illustrations in Preaching Anecdotes from the Pulpit The Uses of Anecdotes and Illustrations Where can we find Anecdotes and Illustrations? Cyclopaedias of Anecdotes and Illustrations Books of Fables, Emblems, and Parables The Sciences as Sources of Illustration. ASTRONOMY Supplemental. List of Books of Anecdotes, Illustrations, etc. List of Mr. Spurgeon's Illustrative Works THE lectures of which this volume is composed were delivered the Pastors’ College, in the rear of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and, therefore, we take the liberty to notice that Institution in these pages. To make the College known, and to win for it willing friends, is confessedly one object of our publications upon the ministry, which may, indeed, be viewed as merely the giving forth to a wider area the instruction carried on within the College walls. The Institution is intended to aid useful preachers in obtaining a better education. It takes no man to make him a minister, but requires that its pupils should, as a rule, have exercised their gifts for at least two years, and have won souls to Jesus. ‘These we receive, however poor or backward they may be, and our endeavors are all directed to the one aim that they should be instructed in the things of God, furnished for their work, and practiced in the gift of utterance. Much prayer is made by the Church in the Tabernacle that this end may be accomplished, nor has the prayer been in vain, for some 365 men who were trained in this manner are now declaring the gospel of Jesus. Besides the students for the regular ministry, several hundreds of street preachers, city missionaries, teachers, and workers of all kinds have passed through our Evening Classes, and more than 200 men are now with us, pursuing their callings by day and studying in the evening. We ask for much prayer from all our brethren, that the supply of the Spirit may sanctify the teaching, and anoint every worker for the service of the Lord.