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• Moody's Anecdotes and Illustrations, Related in His Revival Work by the Great Evangelist (revised edition; Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Pub. Co., 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody, ed. by J. B. McClure (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and Word)
• A Box of Nails for Busy Christian Workers: Bible Readings and Outline Addresses (fourth edition; London: H. R. Allenson, 1906), by C. Edwards (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Incidental Illustrations of the Economy of Salvation, Its Doctrines and Duties (Toronto: G.R. Sanderson, 1856), by Phoebe Palmer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Things new and old: or, A storehouse of similes, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adages, apologues, divine, moral, political, &c., with their several applications. Collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present. (W. Tegg, 1869), by John Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes historiques, légendes et apologues (Librairie Renouard, H. Loones, successeur, 1877), by de Borbone Stephanus and A. Lecoy de La Marche (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Speculum laicorum (A. Picard, 1914), by Speculum laicorum, J. Th Welter, and d 1275 John of Hoveden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Windows for sermons; a study of the art of sermonic illustration, together with four hundred fresh illustrations suited for sermons and reform addresses (Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1902), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apt illustrations for public addresses (George H. Doran company, 1920), by Alonzo Bernard Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seed thoughts for public speakers (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1900), by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patriotic illustrations for public speakers (The Standard publishing company, 1919), by William Herbert Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• La bibliothèque des prédicateurs, qui contient les principaux sujets de la morale chrétienne mis par ordre alphabetique. (A. Boudet, 1733), by Vincent Houdry (page images at HathiTrust)
• O verdadeiro prégador no seculo XVIII; referindo os progressos, decadencias e restauraçoens, que tem tido a oratoria sagrada, desde o principio do mundo até ao prezente. E reprovando o systema, adoptado por alguns dos prégadores, mais modernos: propoem ultimamente em differentes sermoens, differentes modellos da eloquencia evangelica. (J. Agathon, 1798) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes : a collection of several thousand facts, incidents, narratives, examples, and testimonies, embracing the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected. The whole arranged and classified on a new plan, with copious topical and scriptural indexes (E. Worthington, 1881), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D.L. Moody. (Rhodes & McClure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes : illustrative of a select passage in each chapter of the Old Testament (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1835), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers : a manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc., adapted for Christian teaching (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1864), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers. A manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc. Adapted for Christian teaching. (Perkinpine & Higgens, 1863), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadcast. (Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catechetical sermon-aids (B. Herder book co., 1942), by Joseph H. Schlarman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The guiding hand, or, Providential direction, illustrated by authentic instances (H.L. Hastings ;, 1893), by H. L. Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Testament illustrations : comprising choice selections, anecdotes, similes, incidents explanatory and illustrative, gathered from many sources in this and other countries, together with original articles prepared expressly for this work, by which more than one thousand selected passages from the New Testament are illustrated (J.B. Burr publishing co., 1875), by William Basil Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes : a collection of nearly three thousand facts, incidents, narratives, examples and testimonies, containing the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected, the whole critically arranged and classified on a new plan, with copious topical and scriptural indexes (Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1848), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations for sermons and instructions, definitions, word-pictures, exemplifications, quotations, and stories, explanatory of Catholic doctrine and practice. (J. F. Wagner (inc.), 1916), by Charles Jerome Callan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gleichnisse und Sinnbilder zur christkatholischen Lehre; oder, katholische Glaubens- und Sittenlehren, erklärt und erläutert durch Gleichnisse und Sinnbilder. Ein Handbuch für Prediger, Katecheten und Religionslehrer, zugleich ein Hausbuch zur Belehrung und Erbauung für christliche Familien. (Hurter'sche Buchhandlung, 1864), by Anton Kotte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture itself the illustrator : a manual of illustrations gathered from scriptural figures, phrases, types, derivations, chronology, texts, &c., adapted for the use of preachers and teachers (J. Nisbet, 1872), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture truth in Oriental dress : or, Emblems explanatory of Biblical doctrines and morals, with parallel or illustrative references to proverbs and proverbial sayings in the Arabic, Bengali, Canarese, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Tamul, Telegu and Urdu languages (Thacker, Spink, 1871), by James Long (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Homiletic and illustrative treasury of religious thought : or twenty thousand choice extracts, selected from the works of all the great writers, ancient and modern with copious indices (Dickinson, 1889), by Charles Neil, Joseph S. Exell, and H. D. M. Spence-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopaedia of prose illustrations : adapted to Christian teaching : embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similes, allegories, proverbs, classic, historic, and religious anecdotes, etc. (W.C. Palmer, 1875), by Elon Foster and Stephen H. Tyng (page images at HathiTrust)
• Of such is the kingdom, and other stories from life. (The Woodruff-Collins Press, 1907), by Richard Lee Metcalfe (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evangelistic illustrations (published exclusively for the Homiletic review by George H. Doran company, 1921), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of illustration : being addresses delivered to the students of the Pastor's College, Metropolitan Tabernacle. (Passmore Alabaster, 1897), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopædia of prose illustrations, adapted to Chistian teaching. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1872), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of select passages in each chapter of the New Testament (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1838), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteen hundred facts and similes for sermons and addresses. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by J. F. B. Tinling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biblical illustrator, or, Anecdotes, similes, emblems, illustrations, expository, scientific, geographical, historical and homiletic, gathered from a wide range of home and foreign literature, on the verses of the Bible (Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1890), by Joseph S. Exell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Northern lights on the Bible : drawn from a bishop's experience during twenty-five years in the great-North-West (J. Nisbet, 1893), by William Carpenter Bompas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and sayings of Sam P. Jones, a minister of the gospel. (The Franklin-Turner Co., 1907), by Sam P. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiritual gems of the ages (Elm Street Printing, 1886), by John H. Aughey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon sketches for extempore preachers (Joseph Masters, 1877), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Present day parables (F. M. Barton, 1900), by J. Wilbur Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• D. L. Moody's stories to foster faith and to fasten truth. (Fleming H. Revell, 1899), by Dwight Lyman Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pastor's manual; containing Scriptural readings, watchwords, forms of marriage, etc., etc. (Congregational Publishing Society, 1872), by Congregational Churches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and poems for public addresses (George H. Doran, 1922), by Alonzo Bernard Webber (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cyclopedia of twentieth century illustrations; new piecture of truth from current events and recent inventions and discoveries, for the use of preachers, Sunday-school teachers and Christian workers (Fleming H. Revell company, 1918), by Amos R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers, containing facts, incidents, stories, experiences, anecdotes, selections, etc. for illustrative purposes, with cross-references (Funk and Wagnalls company, 1911), by Robert Scott and William Curtis Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire hundrede fortællinger for skolen og hjemmet (C. Rasmussen Forlagsboghandel, 1881), by Edvard Mau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treasury of illustrations, including the treasury of wit and wisdom, translated and compiled by Abednego David. (Christian Literature Society, 1907), by Abednego David (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pulpit Pungencies. (New York : Carleton, 1866., 1866), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible truths illustrated : for the use of preachers, teachers, bible-school, Christian endeavor, temperance and other Christian workers (Standard Publishing Co., 1917), by J. C. Ferdinand Pittman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1907), by R. A. Torrey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes; a collection of nearly 3000 facts ... with copious topical and Scriptural indexes. (Leavitt, 1849), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suggestive illustrations on the Gospel of John : illustrations from all sources, picturesque Greek words, library references to further illustrations, references to celebrated pictures, for the use of pastors, Sunday-school teachers, leaders of prayer-meetings, and the home (A.J. Holman, 1901), by F. N. Peloubet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture illustrations from the domestic life of the Jews and other Eastern nations (William Collins, Sons, & Co., 1877), by John Eadie (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopaedia of prose illustrations : adapted to Christian teaching: embracing allegories, analogies, anecdotes, aphorisms, emblems, fables, legends, metaphors, parables, quotations, similes, Biblical types and figures, etc. (Thomas Y. Crowell, 1877), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (A.C. Armstrong, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of Old Testament texts. (New York : A. C. Armstrong, 1886., 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feest - en Passietexten (by L. Moens, H. van Osch en de Wed. B. van Dalen, 1804) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdens-teksten voor de Nederduitsche Hervormde gemeente te Rotterdam. (Wyt, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde, volgens welke de feest- en lijdensteksten, in de Nederduitsche Hervormde gemeente te Leiden, gepredikt worden. (bij de Wed. D. Du Saar, 1829) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and parables to illustrate gospel truths. (Pub. House of the M. E. Church, South, Smith & Lamar, agents, 1907), by George Rutledge Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (A. C. Armstrong, 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parables for our times : a study of present-day questions in the light of Christ's illustrations. (T. Whittaker, 1900), by Wolcott Calkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations from art for pulpit and platform (The Pilgrim Press, 1912), by James Burns and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evangelistic illustrations (Harper & Brothers, 1921), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Cyclopaedia of nature teachings : being a selection of facts, observations, suggestions, illustrations, examples, and illustrative hints taken from all departments of inanimate nature (T. Whittaker, 1892), by Hugh Macmillan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of religious anecdotes (Fleming H. Revell, 1923), by J. Gilchrist Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bible illustrations : being a storehouse of similes, allegories, and anecdotes (Sheldon & Co., 1866), by John Spencer and Richard Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, zoo als zij jaarlijks op de feestdagen en vóór paschen in de Nederduitsche Hervormde Gemeente te Rotterdam gepredikt worden. (Wijt & Zonen, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch book, or, Miscellaneous anecdotes, illustrating a variety of topics proper to the pulpit and platform. (Carlton & Porter, 1860), by William C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular annotations on scripture texts (Hodder & Stoughton, 1870), by Francis Jacox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, zoo als die jaarlijks in de Hederduitsch Hervormde gemeente van 's Gravenhage gepredikt worden. (De Gebroeders Van Cleef, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays (Funk & Wagnalls, 1902), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world of moral and religious anecdote : illustrations and incidents gathered from the words, thoughts, and deeds in the lives of men, women, and books (Hodder and Stoughton, 1897), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The missioner's manual of anecdotes. For the use of mission preachers, catechists, and Sunday school teachers. (J. T. Hayes, 1876), by Arthur Gregory Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great archers and their weapons and Fresh arrows from many quivers : a study of illustrative powers of pulpit orators, with selections of their illustrations. (F.M. Barton, 1903), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Scientific illustrations and symbols : moral truths mirrored in scientific facts designed for the use of the senate, the bar, the pulpit, the orator, and the lover of nature (R.D. Dickinson, 1885), by David Morgan Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legenden och medeltidens latinska predikan och "exempla" i deras värdesattning av kvinnan (Helsingfors Centraltryckeri och Bokbinderi Aktiebolag, 1915), by Hjalmar Crohns (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diamonds from the rough; original incidents and stories (The Evangelical publishing co., 1911), by Edward Gideon Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D. L. Moody (Rhodes & Mcclure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and James Baird McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christliche unterweisungen in lehren und beispielen (J. M. A. Blunschi; [etc., etc.], 1860), by Anton Huber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's child stories as related by Dwight Lyman Moody in his revival work in Europe and America. (Rhodes & McClure Pub, Co., 1900), by Dwight Lyman Moody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broadcast. (Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Nehemiah Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zufälle, die nicht zufälle sind; oder, Auffallende akte der göttlichen strafgerechtigkeit. (C. Sartori, 1866), by E. N., Anton Oberkofler, and E. N. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's anecdotes and illustrations. (Rhodes & McClure publishing co., 1896), by Dwight Lyman Moody and James Baird McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of New Testament texts. (Scranton, 1901) (page images at HathiTrust)
• In prospect of Sunday; a collectin of analyses, arguments, applications, counsels, cautions, etc., for the use of preachers and teachers. (Armstrong, 1881), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secular annotations on Scripture texts (Hodder & Stoughton, 1872), by Francis Jacox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fresh bait for fishers of men (F.M. Barton, 1900), by Louis Albert Banks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel workers̕ treasury of hymn and revival anecdotes : texts, subjects, outlines, and Scripture readings (S.J. Shuey, 1887), by E. S. Lorenz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exempel-Lexikon für Prediger und Katecheten : (Herder, 1906), by A. Scherer and Johannes Baptist Lampert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dictionary of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching : embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similes, allegories, proverbs, classic, historic and religious anecdotes, etc. ; with elaborate textual and topical indexes. (R. D. Dickinson., 1892), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and emblems (S.R. Briggs :, 1885), by Alexander Maclaren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious allegories : being a series of emblematic engravings, with written explanations, miscellaneous observations, and religious reflections, designed to illustrate divine truth, in accordance with the cardinal principles of Christianity ... (Henry Howe, publisher, 111 Main-Street, 1848), by William Holmes and John Warner Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung von Beispielen über biblische Hauptbegriffe, etc., in alphabetischer Reihenfolge : ein Handbuch für Geistliche, Lehrer, Sonntagsschullehrer und die Familie (F. Riehm, 1889), by A. Rodemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of anecdote, incident, illustrative fact, selected and arranged for the pulpit and the platform. (T. Whittaker, 1888), by Walter Baxendale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral & religious anecdotes : a collection of nearly three thousand facts, with copious topical and scriptural indexes (Funk & Wagnalls, 1890), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative gatherings for preachers and teachers : a manual of anecdotes, facts, figures, proverbs, quotations, etc. (Perkinpine & Higgins, 1869), by G. S. Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orde der feest- en lijdensteksten, ten gebruike van de Nd. Herv. gemeente te Arnhem. (Van der Wiel & Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Afternoon (J.B. Lippincott, 1874), by Theophilus Stork (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty thousand thoughts, being extracts covering a comprehensive circle of religious and allied topics, gathered from the best available sources, of all ages and all schools of thought; with suggestive and seminal headings and homiletical and illuminative framework: the whole arranged upon a scientific basis. With classified and thought-multiplying lists, comparative tables, and elaborate indices, alphabetical, topical, textual, and scriptural. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1889), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Joseph S. Exell, Charles Neil, Joseph S. Exell, and Charles Neil (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand new illustrations for the pulpit, platform, and class : with exhaustive subject and textual indices (R. D. Dickinson, 1890), by H. O. Mackey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and examples illustrating the Catholic catechism (Benziger brothers, 1904), by Francis Spirago and James Joseph Baxter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonders of Providence; remarkable and authentic providential stories (The Evangelical publishing co., 1911), by J. Martin Rohde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire hundrede fortællinger for skolen og hjemmet (C. Rasmussen Forlagsboghandel, 1886), by Edvard Mau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gem cyclop dia of illustrations (Cranston & Stowe ;, 1889), by John Gaines Vaughan and Henry A. Buttz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching, embracing mythology, analogies, legends ... and religious anecdotes, etc. ... (London, 1873), by Elon Foster and J. G. Pilkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rivets for truth (Christian Publishing Co., 1909), by Levi Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand evengelistic illustrations. (George H. Doran company, 1921), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D. L. Moody. (Rhodes & McClure, 1886), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seed thoughts for public speakers (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1916), by Arthur T. Pierson (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand tales worth telling (Pickering & Inglis, 1917), by Hy Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and illustrations of D.L. Moody. (Rhodes & Mcclure, 1877), by Dwight Lyman Moody and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of illustrations for public speakers; containing facts, incidents, stories, experiences, anecdotes, selections, etc., for illustrative purposes with cross references. (Funk, 1913), by Robert Scott and William Curtis Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopaedia of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similies, allegories proverbs; classic, historic, and religious anecodtes, etc. (Palmer, 1870), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the art of illustration; pictures of truth from the newspapers, science, and the round of daily life, for the use of preachers, Sunday-school teachers, prayer-meeting speakers, and for all readers (F.H. Revell company, 1903), by Amos R. Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The power of illustration : an element of success in preaching and teaching (L. Colby, 1850), by John Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The preacher's cabinet. A handbook of illustrations ... 2d ser. (New York, 1881), by Edward Payson Thwing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Better readings (Augsburg Pub. House, 1927), by Olaf Lysnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays (Gale Research Company, 1990), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliotheca manualis concionatoria, ordine alphabetico digesta : novis titulis adaucta; sententiis ss. patrum et doctorum illustrata ... ad commodiorem usum in quinque tomos distributa, cui ultimo accedit opusculum : instructio practica de munere concionandi, exhortandi et catechizandi; cura et studio Alphonsi Cordier et Joannis-Baptistae Baud (apud Hippolytum Walzer, 1869), by Tobias Lohner (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred best sermons for special days and occasions : with accompanying cyclopedia of choice illustrations. (Harper, 1923), by G. B. F. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sam Jones' anecdotes and illustrations / related by him in his revival work. (Rhodes & McClure, 1886), by Sam P. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• New cyclopædia of illustrations adapted to Christian teaching ... (Carlton, 1871), by Elon Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teaching and preaching religion to children (P. J. Kenedy and sons, 1936), by John Kean Sharp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrations from mythology (Glad tidings publishing co., 1927), by William E. Biederwolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Earnest thoughts. (American Tract Society, 1880), by James Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes, illustrative of a select passage in each chapter of the Old Testament. (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1870), by John Whitecross (page images at HathiTrust)
• One thousand and one illustrations for pulpit and platform (George H. Doran Company, 1926), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yu li chao. (Ju wen tang, 1832), by Danchidaoren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information and illustration. Helps gathered from facts, figures, anecdotes, books, etc., for sermons, lectures, and addresses. (Nisbet, 1884), by George Seaton Bowes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feathers for arrows; or, Illustrations for preachers and teachers, from my note book (Carter, 1883), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moody's anecdotes and illustrations : related in his revival work by the great evangelist (Rhodes & McClure, 1896), by Dwight Lyman Moody, Gustave Doré, and J. B. McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaint and quotable sayings and incidents (The Stratford Company, 1930), by Herbert William Lathe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suggestive thoughts on religious subjects: a dictionary of quotations and selected passages from the best writers, ancient and modern. For the use of the clergy and others. (C. Griffin & company, 1880), by Henry Southgate (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1001 illustrations for pulpit and platform (Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1930), by Aquilla Webb (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Capsules of wisdom; punch lines to put across a message. (Bloch Pub. Co., 1948), by Max L. Forman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes illustrative of Old Testament texts. (S. S. Scranton Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Platform and pulpit aids. (S.S. Scranton, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of moral and religious anecdotes : a collection of nearly three thousand facts, incidents, narratives, examples and testimonies, containing the best of the kind in most former collections, and some hundreds in addition, original and selected, the whole critically arranged and classified on a new plan, with copious topical and scriptural indexes (Leavitt and Allen, 1848), by Kazlitt Arvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrations and meditations; or, Flowers from a Puritan's garden, distilled and dispensed (London : Passmore & Alabaster, 1883., 1883), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty thousand thoughts, being extracts covering a comprehensive circle of religious and allied topics, gathered from the best available sources, of all ages and all schools of thought; with suggestive and seminal headings and homiletical and illuminative framework: the whole arranged upon a scientific basis. With classified and thought-multiplying lists, comparative tables, and elaborate indices, alphabetical, topical, textual, and Scriptural. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885), by H. D. M. Spence-Jones, Charles Neil, and Joseph S. Exell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traits of character and notes of incident in Bible story. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1873., 1873), by Francis Jacox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pastor his own evangelist : methods, texts, seed thoughts and illustrations (Cleveland : Barton, [1910], 1910), by Charles LeRoy Goodell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cyclopedia of illustrations of moral and religious truths, consisting of definitions, metaphors, similes, emblems, contrasts, analogies, statistics, synonyms, anecdotes, etc. (London : Jarrold and Sons, 1871., 1871), by John Bate (page images at HathiTrust)
• A word fitly spoken. (Broadman Press, 1962), by Robert J. Hastings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of illustration (New York : Wilbur B. Ketcham, [1894], 1894), by C. H. Spurgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrative anecdotes for preachers, Sunday school teachers and the family circle (New York, N.Y. : Printed for the author, 1925., 1925), by Henry Myron Tyndall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cyclopedia of illustrations of moral and religious truths, consisting of definitions, metaphors, similes, emblems, contrasts, analogies, statistics, synonyms, anecdotes, etc. (London : Jarrold and Sons, 1875., 1875), by John Bate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of sermon outlines for special days and occasions; a comprehensive collection of suggestive material for the outstanding days and seasons of the entire church year, also for fraternities, etc. (New York : George H. Doran & company, [1925], 1925), by G. B. F. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scripture texts illustrated by general literature, by Francis Jacox (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of Illustration, by C. H. Spurgeon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moody's Stories: Being a Second Volume of Anecdotes, Incidents, and Illustrations, by Dwight Lyman Moody (Gutenberg ebook)

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