Around the Wicket Gate: Annotated Edition With Original Illustrations

Drawing on the imagery of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, Spurgeon pictures the seeking soul standing near the wicket gate—the entrance to the way of life—yet held back by doubts, fears, misunderstandings, and questions about faith and salvation. With characteristic warmth, urgency, humor, and pastoral insight, he seeks to remove those obstacles and direct the reader to Christ alone.

Across eleven chapters, Spurgeon explores spiritual awakening, the simplicity of faith, the person and work of Jesus Christ, the fear of believing, difficulties that hinder faith, the meaning of Christ’s saving work, the danger of endless questioning, and the necessity of trusting Christ for salvation.

This annotated edition from GH Editions preserves Spurgeon’s historic text and original illustrations while providing integrated editorial notes to assist modern readers with biblical allusions, Victorian expressions, historical references, theological terminology, and nineteenth-century religious context.

The annotations are placed naturally throughout the text so that readers can gain helpful context without interrupting the force and simplicity of Spurgeon’s original appeal.

Around the Wicket Gate remains a compassionate and deeply practical invitation for seekers, new believers, and Christians who wish to understand more clearly the relationship between faith, grace, Christ, and salvation.

A classic work on Christian faith and the way of salvation, presented in a carefully prepared annotated edition for today’s reader.