The shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix! I think the Savior Wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in There are some who can fall down and adore aĬross of wood, or stone, or gold, but I cannot conceive of a greater Acton-Adams atĪnti-Catholic Calvinist Preacher Charles Spurgeon Charles Spurgeon Attacks Crucifixes and Crossesįirst, let us enquire, WHAT IS THIS CROSS OF CHRIST to which some menĬourse, it is not the material cross. Metropolitan Tabernacle, and there is a bust by Mr. Of Spurgeon is an oil painting in the “pastor's” vestry, He died at Mentone on 31 Jan.ġ892, and was buried at Norwood cemetery, London. Towards the end of his life he suffered severely from gout, and was The Surrey Gardens music-hall, where his congregations numbered tenĭaughter of Robert Thompson of Falcon Square, London, by whom he had The enlarged chapel, when opened, at once proved too small, and a Of erection, but Exeter Hall could not contain Spurgeon's hearers. Exeter Hall was used while the new building was in process Gathered to hear the country lad of twenty rendered its enlargementĮssential.
The chapel had been empty before a year had passed the crowds that Within a few months as a preacher made him famous. Was preaching in the pulpit of the baptist congregation at New Park There he became an active member of aīaptist congregation, and while a boy of sixteen, dressed in a jacketĪnd turndown collar, preached his first sermon in a cottage atīaptist congregation at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. Place in a school at Cambridge, recently founded by a former teacherĪnd friend, Henry Leeding. Methodist chapel, he was baptised and formally joined the baptistĬommunity at Isleham on. Spurgeon had been reared an independent, and converted in a primitive In the following year he became usher in a In 1848 he spent a few months at an agriculturalĬollege at Maidstone.
Spurgeon, but in 1841 he was sent to a school at Colchester conductedīy Henry Lewis. His early childhood was spent with his grandfather, James Of Colchester, was born at Kelvedon, Essex, in England on 19 Juneġ834.
Spurgeon, by his wife, the youngest sister of Charles Parker Jarvis
The Bible Proves the Teachings of the Catholic Church Movies / TV-Series, Shows, Sports / Video Games / Music / Books We are looking for helpers and translators.He was a famous British preacher and pastor for 38 years of New Park Street Chapel, later called the Metropolitan Tabernacle. At the heart of his desire to preach was a fierce love of people, a desire that meant he did not neglect his pastoral ministry. Spurgeon (1834-92), the great Victorian preacher, was one of the most influential people of the second half of the 19th Century. None can read these pages without being indelibly impressed with the author’s words, ‘there is no time for serving the Lord like the very earliest days of youth.Ĭ. He was our Lord’s delighted captive.’ Whatever Spurgeon did he did it for Christ. ‘In his heart’, wrote Archibald Brown, ‘Jesus stood unapproached, unrivalled. That Christ is worthy of a devotion and a service incomparably greater than any redeemed sinner can render is the supreme lesson of the book. Through out these pages the Saviour stands above the servant. Spurgeon Autobiography lies in its record of God’s grace.
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