Charles+Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (June 19, 1834 (Kelvedon, England) - January 31, 1892 (Mentone, France) Often called the "Prince of Preachers." Spurgeon was converted on January 6, 1850, in Artillery St. Primitive Methodist Chapel in Colchester, while visiting during a snowstorm. He began to preach at age 16. Spurgeon pastored Waterbeach Baptist Church in Cambridgeshire (1852), then took a small church, New Park Street Church in London (1854). He married Susannah Thompson on January 8, 1856, who became an invalid at age 33. He began using Surrey Gardens Music Hall in 1856, which seated 10,000. His Metropolitan Tabernacle opened in 1861 (age 27), seating nearly 6,000 and was filled. He wrote amny books, founded a pastor's college (1861), an orphanage (1867), published many sermons, and opposed liberalism all his life. He edited The Sword and the Trowel and published The Treasury of David (1865), an exposition of the Psalms. In 1887, contending for the truth of the Bible, he left the Baptist Union during the Downgrade Controvery. || The Crown College, The Christian Heritage Center, Powell, TN
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