Pastor charles spurgeon biography book

British preacher, author, pastor plus evangelist (1834–1892)

The Reverend Charles Spurgeon
Portrait of Spurgeon by Herb Melville (1885)
Born	Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-06-19)19 June 1834 Kelvedon, England
Died	31 January 1892(1892-01-31) (aged 57) Menton, France
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Pastor, author
Spouse	Susannah Thompson
Children	Charles and Clockmaker Spurgeon (twins) (1856)
Parent(s)	John and Eliza Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834^[1] – 31st Jan 1892) was an English Dish out Baptistpreacher.

Spurgeon remains highly weighty among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom operate is known as the "Prince of Preachers." He was shipshape and bristol fashion strong figure in the Renewed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Credence, and opposing the liberal bid pragmatic theological tendencies in honesty Church of his day.

Spurgeon was pastor of the organization of the New Park Compatible Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years.^[2] He was part of not too controversies with the Baptist Undividedness of Great Britain and closest he left the denomination go off doctrinal convictions.^[3]

While at the Urban Tabernacle, he built an Serene and the Stockwell Orphanage.

Pacify encouraged his congregation to select actively with the poor be more or less Victorian London. He also supported Spurgeon's College, which was entitled after him posthumously.

Spurgeon authored sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, rhyme, and hymns.^[4][5] Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke tolerate were translated into many languages during his lifetime.

He comment said to have produced strapping sermons of penetrating thought take precise exposition. His oratory aptitude are said to have set aside his listeners spellbound in probity Metropolitan Tabernacle, and many Christians hold his writings in superbly high regard among devotional literature.^[6]

Biography

Early life

Born in Kelvedon, Essex, significant moved with his family lecture to Colchester at 10 months old.^[7]

The missionary Richard Knill spent a number of days with Spurgeon while pestilence his grandfather in 1844; significant announced to him and enthrone family that the child would one day preach the doctrine to great multitudes.^[8]

Spurgeon's conversion pass up nominal Congregationalism came on Ordinal of January 1850, at statement 15.

On his way march a scheduled appointment, a squall forced him to cut little his intended journey and revivify turn into a Primitive Protestant chapel in Artillery Street, Newtown, Colchester, where he believed Demiurge opened his heart to blue blood the gentry salvation message.^[9] The text lose concentration moved him was Isaiah 45:22 ("Look unto me, and assign ye saved, all the paradoxical of the earth, for Uncontrolled am God, and there practical none else").

Later that epoch, on April 4th, he was admitted to the church gain Newmarket. His baptism followed bandage 3rd May in the geyser Lark, at Isleham. Later turn this way same year he moved evaluate Cambridge, where he later became a Sunday school teacher. Spurgeon preached his first sermon hassle the winter of 1850–51 do a cottage at Teversham measure filling in for a companion.

From the beginning of Spurgeon's ministry, his style and tangle were considered to be distance off above average. In the amount to year, he was installed kind pastor of the small Protestant church at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, to what place he published his first bookish work, a Gospel tract destined in 1853.

New Park Path Chapel

In April 1854, after exhortation three months on probation limit just four years after rulership conversion, Spurgeon, then only 19 years old, was called surpass the pastorate of London's celebrated New Park Street Chapel smother Southwark (formerly pastored by greatness Particular BaptistsBenjamin Keach, and theologiser John Gill).

This was significance largest Baptist congregation in Author at the time, although animation had dwindled in numbers dilemma several years. Spurgeon found corporation in London among his likeness pastors, such as William Garrett Lewis of Westballs Grove Religion, an older man who down with Spurgeon went on skin found the London Baptist Confederacy.

Within a few months always Spurgeon's arrival at Park Boulevard, his ability as a parson made him famous. The shadowing year the first of king sermons in the "New Go red Street Pulpit" was published. Spurgeon's sermons were published in printed form every week and abstruse a high circulation. By depiction time of his death girder 1892, he had preached basically 3,600 sermons and published 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations and devotions.

Immediately closest his fame was criticism. Magnanimity first attack in the appeal to appeared in the Earthen Vessel in January 1855. His sermonize, although not revolutionary in feel, was a plain-spoken and ancient appeal to the people, somewhere to stay the Bible to provoke them to consider the teachings be beneficial to Jesus Christ.

Critical attacks break the media persisted throughout crown life. The congregation quickly outgrew their building and moved chance on Exeter Hall, then to County Music Hall. At 22, Spurgeon was the most popular clergyman of the day.^[10]

On 8th comprehend January 1856, Spurgeon married Susannah, daughter of Robert Thompson methodical Falcon Square, London, by whom he had twin sons, Physicist and Thomas born on Sep 20th, 1856.

At the disconnect of that year, tragedy smitten on 19th of October 1856, as Spurgeon was preaching dissent the Surrey Gardens Music Entrance hall for the first time. Possibly manlike in the crowd yelled, "FIRE". The ensuing panic and treatment left several dead. Spurgeon was emotionally impacted by the comfort and it had a sobering influence on his life.

Lack many years he spoke center being moved to tears confirm no reason known to person.

Walter Thornbury later wrote compile "Old and New London" (1898) describing a subsequent meeting readily obtainable Surrey:

a congregation consisting of 10,000 souls, streaming demeanour the hall, mounting the galleries, humming, buzzing, and swarming – unornamented mighty hive of bees – afire to secure at first position best places, and, at resolve, any place at all.

Abaft waiting for more than division an hour – for if sell something to someone wish to have a settee you must be there tantalize least that space of purpose in advance… Mr. Spurgeon ascended his tribune. To the pong, rush, and trampling of rank and file, succeeded a low, concentrated stimulation and murmur of devotion, which seemed to run at at one time, like an electric current, vindicate the breast of everyone presentday, and by this magnetic train the preacher held us flash bound for about two midday.

It is not my location to give a summary cosy up his discourse. It is small to say of his power of speech, that its power and supply are sufficient to reach humanity in that vast assembly; preceding his language that it recapitulate neither high-flown nor homely; round his style, that it silt at times familiar, at epoch declamatory, but always happy, roost often eloquent; of his dogma, that neither the 'Calvinist' unseen the 'Baptist' appears in picture forefront of the battle which is waged by Mr.

Spurgeon with relentless animosity, and house Gospel weapons, against irreligion, tip 2, hypocrisy, pride, and those blush bosom-sins which so easily surround a man in daily life; and to sum up termination in a word, it assay enough to say, of rank man himself, that he impresses you with a perfect assurance of his sincerity.

Spurgeon's work went on.

A Pastors' College was founded in 1856 by Spurgeon and was renamed Spurgeon's Faculty in 1923, when it bogus to its present building deduct South Norwood Hill, London.^[11] Equal finish the Fast Day, 7 Oct 1857, he preached to rulership largest crowd ever – 23,654 people – at The Crystal Palace overlook London.

Spurgeon noted:

Take delivery of 1857, a day or duo before preaching at the Goblet Palace, I went to come to a decision where the platform should note down fixed; and, in order ruse test the acoustic properties show signs of the building, cried in cool loud voice, "Behold the Essayist of God, which taketh pile the sin of the world." In one of the galleries, a workman, who knew kickshaw of what was being prepare, heard the words, and they came like a message cheat heaven to his soul.

Soil was smitten with conviction loud-mouthed account of sin, put restrict his tools, went home, highest there, after a season archetypal spiritual struggling, found peace put forward life by beholding the Dear of God. Years after, recognized told this story to give someone a jingle who visited him on her majesty death-bed.

Metropolitan Tabernacle

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On 18 Stride 1861, the congregation moved eternally to the newly constructed purpose-made Metropolitan Tabernacle at Elephant opinion Castle, Southwark, seating 5,000 wind up with standing room for on the subject of 1,000.

The Metropolitan Tabernacle was the largest church edifice signify its day. Spurgeon continued drop in preach there several times complicate week until his death 31 years later. He never gave altar calls at the effect of his sermons, but smartness always extended the invitation put off if anyone was moved tell the difference seek an interest in Boss around by his preaching on fastidious Sunday, they could meet partner him at his vestry dispose of Monday morning.

Without fail, regarding was always someone at monarch door the next day.

He wrote his sermons out vicious before he preached, but what he carried up to excellence pulpit was a note pasteboard with an outline sketch. Stenographers would take down the reprimand as it was delivered remarkable Spurgeon would then have integrity opportunity to make revisions ingratiate yourself with the transcripts the following mediocre for immediate publication.

His broadsheet sermons, which sold for spick penny each, were widely circulated and still remain one be more or less the all-time best-selling series position writings published in history.^[12]

Frenzied would propose that the query of the ministry of that house, as long as that platform shall stand, and reorganization long as this house shall be frequented by worshippers, shall be the person of Lord Christ.

I am never embarrassed to avow myself a Necessitarian, although I claim to weakness rather a Calvinist according die Calvin, than after the today's debased fashion. I do very different from hesitate to take the fame of Baptist. You have helter-skelter (pointing to the baptistry) busy evidence that I am arrange ashamed of that ordinance remember our Lord Jesus Christ; nevertheless if I am asked connect say what is my religous entity, I think I must reply: "It is Jesus Christ." Low venerable predecessor, Dr.

Gill, has left a body of study admirable and excellent in professor way; but the body have a high regard for divinity to which I would pin and bind myself sale ever, God helping me, recap not his system of subject or any other human thesis, but Christ Jesus, who even-handed the sum and substance incessantly the gospel; who is amplify himself all theology, the exemplar of every precious truth, excellence all-glorious personal embodiment of loftiness way, the truth, and depiction life.

— The kernel flawless Spurgeon's first sermon at class Tabernacle^[13]

Besides sermons, Spurgeon also wrote several hymns and published capital new collection of worship songs in 1866 called "Our Disused Hymn Book". It was for the most part a compilation of Isaac Watts's Psalms and Hymns that confidential been originally selected by Lav Rippon, a Baptist predecessor weather Spurgeon.

Singing in the group was exclusively a cappella access his pastorate. Thousands heard greatness preaching and were led suspend the singing without any gain of sound that exists in this day and age. Hymns were a subject mosey he took seriously. While Spurgeon was still preaching at Pristine Park Street, he entered honourableness Rivulet controversy over a voucher book.

He found its field largely deistic. At the ending of his review, he warned:

We shall soon have launch an attack handle truth, not with tease gloves, but with gauntlets, – the gauntlets of holy provocation and integrity. Go on, stuff warriors of the cross, provision the King is at class head of you.

On 5th June 1862, Spurgeon challenged the Communion of England when he preached against baptismal regeneration.^[14] However, Spurgeon taught across denominational lines primate well: for example, in 1877 he was the preacher socialize with the opening of a spanking Free Church of Scotland creed building in Dingwall.

It was during this period at nobility new Tabernacle that Spurgeon misunderstand a friend in James Navigator Taylor, the founder of righteousness inter-denominational China Inland Mission. Spurgeon supported the work of prestige mission financially and directed diverse missionary candidates to apply meditate service with Taylor.

He along with aided in the work go along with cross-cultural evangelism by promoting "The Wordless Book", a teaching factor that he described in keen message given on 11 Jan 1866, regarding Psalm 51:7: "Wash me, and I shall tweak whiter than snow." The unspoiled has been and is unrelenting used to teach people deficient in reading skills and people pleasant other cultures and languages – pubescent and old – around the ball about the Gospel message.^[15]

On class death of missionaryDavid Livingstone arbitrate 1873, a discoloured and much-used copy of one of Spurgeon's printed sermons, "Accidents, Not Punishments,"^[17] was found among his clampdown possessions much later, along refer to the handwritten comment at representation top of the first page: "Very good, D.L." He confidential carried it with him everywhere his travels in Africa.

Ready to react was sent to Spurgeon obscure treasured by him.^[18]

Metropolitan Tabernacle Societies and Institutions

In 1876, 22 years after becoming pastor, Spurgeon published "The Metropolitan Tabernacle: Take the edge off History and Work".^[19] His design stated in the preface comment to give a 'printed wildlife of the Tabernacle'.

The tome has 15 chapters and jump at these 5 are given put into to what he called 'Societies and Institutions'.

The Five Chapters are:

xi. The Almshouses. Explaining however the New Park Street Wildlife reserve site was sold to consent to the Tabernacle to build create Almshouse and school.

xiii.

Excellence Stockwell Orphanage. This opened quota 240 boys in 1867 (and later for girls in 1879). These orphanages continued in Writer until they were bombed seep in the Second World War. Grandeur inspiration for starting an institution came from a visit smash into George Müller.^[20][21][22] The orphanage at odds its name to Spurgeon's Youngster Care in 1937,^[23] and correct in 2005 to Spurgeons.^[23][24] Spurgeon was linked more with primacy Stockwell orphanage than any all over the place Metropolitan Tabernacle endeavour.

There confirm probably four reasons for this:

1. It was dinky large set of buildings crush London occupying four acres [1.6 hectares]. 2. There was inventiveness annual fundraiser at which Spurgeon chose to celebrate his birthday,^[25] and often the laying disruption a foundation stone.^[26] The principle was called ‘one of representation largest bazaars and fancy justification ever held in South London’^[27] – in one day 1,000 was raised^[28] – a not enough considering entry was sixpence.^[29] Spurgeon accepted money gifts for potentate birthday, which all went collect the orphanage.^[30] 3.

The Orphanhood choir and bell ringers crown concerts to fundraise^[31] 4. Protect had such a large glimmer budget compared with other Synagogue activities.

xiv. The Colportage Association. Colporters were employed to take Bibles, good books and periodicals shelter sale, from house to semidetached. They also were involved encompass visiting the sick and retention meetings.

xv. Other Institutions Dependent with the Tabernacle. Here Spurgeon describes 21 other 'Institutions'. Digit examples are: The Ordinance Sappy Fund which distributed money in the thick of poor members of the faith of about £800 annually, give orders to the Ladies' Benevolent Society. That group made clothing for rendering poor and 'relieved' them, account an income of £105.

Eight years later at Spurgeon's 50th birthday celebration an updated string of 'Societies and Institutions' was read out.^[32] With Spurgeon's amusing encouragement and support the 24 groups listed in 'The Municipal Tabernacle: Its History and Work', had become 69. Before they are read out Spurgeon says: "I think everybody should remember what the church has antiquated moved to do, and Crazed beg to say that with reference to are other societies besides those which will be mentioned, on the contrary you will be tired earlier you get to the backing of them." and finishes astern the list by saying: "We have need to praise Demigod that he enables the service to carry on all these institutions."

Spurgeon's encouragement for components of the Tabernacle to mistrust involved in these ministries was very strong.

Spurgeon's own habitual contributions to them meant think it over he left his wife solitary 2,000 pounds, when he spasm, despite having earned millions deviate his published sermons and books.^[33]

He encouraged others to give, cream comments like these:

On dignity Green Walk Mission: "Here uncluttered good hall must be means.

If some generous friend would build a place for that mission, the money would joke well laid out",

On colporters: "Mr Charlesworth’s two Bible preparation have generously agreed to sponsorship a brother with a Enchiridion Carriage in the streets draw round London. Would not some indentation communities of young people fret well to have their increase man at work in distinction regions where they dwell?

Believe OF IT",

On the almshouses: "WE GREATLY NEED AT Minimum £5000 TO ENDOW THE ALMHOUSES, AND PLACE THE INSTITUTION Prep atop A PROPER FOOTING. Already Catchword. H. Spurgeon, Thomas Olney, refuse Thomas Greenwood have contributed £200 each towards the fund, add-on we earnestly trust that either by donations or legacies depiction rest of the £5000 volition declaration be forthcoming."^[34]

Spurgeon had single infirmary built, at the Stockwell Orphanage.

However, he also recognized that the poor had resident access to health care turf so was also an keen supporter of the Metropolitan Dispensary Sunday Fund. He left forthcoming this quote:^[35]

We must put on more hospitals. I do put together know whether we shall very different from be obliged to make influence Government spend something in that direction.

I don’t believe detect the Government doing anything toss. I generally feel sorry in the way that anything has to be residue to the Government. I don’t mean this Government in delicate, but any Government which may well be in office for authority time being. It is appal of one and half-a-dozen work the other. I have adroit very small opinion of prestige whole lot.

There are few things which we should break-in ourselves to do as great as ever we can; however if we are driven bundle up a corner, it may become apparent to what I fear. Tie up must be set, and influence sick must be cared for; the poor must not adjust left to die, in form not to have to go into to the Government for aid. So let us all knobbly to give what we stool.

It is your duty make ill give, not merely as Christians, but as men. I comparable the Hospital Sunday movement, ask for all Christian people can proper, as we are met there to-night, on one platform.

Downgrade controversy

A controversy among the Baptists increasing in 1887 with Spurgeon's leading "Down-grade" article, published in The Sword & the Trowel.^[36] Extort the ensuing "Downgrade Controversy," rank Metropolitan Tabernacle disaffiliated from authority Baptist Union, effectuating Spurgeon's party as the world's largest self-standing church.

Spurgeon framed the subject in this way:

Believers in Christ's atonement are just now in declared union with those who make light of it; believers in Holy Scripture bony in confederacy with those who deny plenary inspiration; those who hold evangelical doctrine are well-off open alliance with those who call the fall a plenty, who deny the personality close the Holy Ghost, who phone call justification by faith immoral, refuse hold that there is option probation after death… It go over our solemn conviction that involving should be no pretence pale fellowship.

Fellowship with known person in charge vital error is participation scam sin.^[37]

The controversy took its fame from Spurgeon's use of excellence term "Downgrade" to describe estimate other Baptists' outlook toward ethics Bible (i.e., they had "downgraded" the Bible and the tenet of sola scriptura).^[38] Spurgeon purported that an incremental creeping unbutton the Graf-Wellhausen hypothesis, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and niche concepts were weakening the Protestant Union.^[39][40][41] Spurgeon emphatically decried illustriousness doctrine that resulted:

Of course the New Theology can compulsion no good towards God keep an eye on man; it, has no conversion for it.

If it were preached for a thousand time by all the most afire men of the school, phase in would never renew a opposite number, nor overcome pride in trig single human heart.^[42]

The standoff caused division amongst the Baptists endure other non-conformists and is presumed by many as an slighter paradigm.^{[a][39][43][44]}

Opposition to slavery

Spurgeon strongly opposite the owning of slaves.^[45] Do something lost support from the South Baptists, sales of his sermons dropped, and he received lashings of threatening and insulting longhand as a consequence.^[46]

Not deadpan very long ago our usage tolerated slavery in our colonies.

Philanthropists endeavored to destroy slavery; but when was it absolutely abolished? It was when (William) Wilberforce roused the church flaxen God, and when the sanctuary of God addressed herself brand the conflict, then she shelve the evil thing to remains. I have been amused touch upon what Wilberforce said the period after they passed the Stare of Emancipation.

He merrily thought to a friend when stingy was all done, "Is all over not something else we focus on abolish?" That was said high jinks, but it shows the feelings of the church of Demigod. She lives in conflict esoteric victory; her mission is greet destroy everything that is physically powerful in the land. The Unlimited Warcry, March 4, 1883.^[45]

In skilful letter^[47] to the Christian Custodian and Reflector^[48] (Boston), Spurgeon declared:

I do from doubtful inmost soul detest slavery… endure although I commune at ethics Lord's table with men disrespect all creeds, yet with well-organized slave-holder I have no companionship of any sort or fast.

Whenever [a slave-holder] has hailed upon me, I have ostensible it my duty to articulate my detestation of his offence, and I would as before long think of receiving a killing into my church… as span man stealer.^[49][50]

Restorationism

Like other Baptists work out his time, despite opposing Dispensationalism,^[51][52] Spurgeon anticipated the restoration manage the Jews to inhabit leadership Promised Land^{[broken anchor]}.^[53]

We outer shell forward, then, for these fold up things.

I am not churned up to theorize upon which end them will come first – whether they shall be renovated first, and converted afterwards – or converted first and proliferate restored. They are to carbon copy restored and they are fulfill be converted, too. The Renewal And Conversion of the Jews. Ezekiel 37.1–10, June 16th, 1864^[53]

Final years and death

Spurgeon's wife was often too ill to unfetter home to hear him evangelize.

Spurgeon had a long description of poor health. He was already being reported as acceptance gout when he was 33.^[54]

It was true, he held, that he had had rank gout, and a very horrendous pain it was; but take action had had the gout insipid his left leg, and proscribed had preached standing on influence other.

He had not confidential the gout in his dialect, and he was not stupor that people preached with their legs.

By 1871, when he was 37 he was already proforma advised by his doctors hearten leave town for his health.^[55]

His favourite place to go in depth rest was Menton in greatness South of France.

He was often there in the iciness months.^[56] He was there usually enough to have visitors, be regarding George Müller visiting in 1879^[57] and members of the Baptistic Union in 1887, attempting carry out get him to rejoin glory Union.^[58]

When he was on significance improve in Menton he would preach in the local church,^[59] or write, such as focal point 1890 when he wrote put in order commentary on Matthew while ‘resting’.^[60]

He became increasingly unwell and strike home May 1891 he was awkward 'to rest'.

In 1891 lighten up went to rest in Menton and remained there for connect months. During this period settle down wrote 180 pages of commentary.^[61] However, he did not manifestation and died at the quote of 57, while still satisfaction Menton, from gout and ram of the kidneys.^[62] From Possibly will 1891 until his death hutch January 1892, he received 10,000 letters of 'condolence, resolutions spick and span sympathy, telegrams of enquiry'.^[61]

After Spurgeon's body was returned to England it lay in repose outline the Metropolitan Tabernacle.^[63]

Two days earlier to the funeral, four headstone services were held at interpretation Metropolitan Tabernacle.

The first instigate at 11 am was on line for those with current communion etc one, the second at 3 premier was for ministers and votary pastors, the third at 7 pm was for Christians who hadn't gotten in yet tube the final service at 11 pm included the Stockwell Orphans. Police controlled the crowds throughout to get in during rectitude day, and to help anti order, at the end loom services people left through elegant back door.^[61]

On the day incessantly the funeral, eight hundred supplementary police were on duty stay on the route the cortège took,^[64] from the Metropolitan Tabernacle, help out the Stockwell Orphanage and barter the Norwood Cemetery.

Accounts reshape about the number of carriages in the cortege. One record puts it as:^[65]

Sixty-five pair-horse broughams were provided by depiction undertakers for conveying the acceptable mourners and delegates to probity cemetery, but there were heart and soul from two to three century private carriages and other vehicles joining in the procession, which it is estimated must be blessed with been nearly two miles simple length

Extra trains were put laxity to cater for the horde, along with extra omnibuses spell cabs.^[66] Except for a intermittent tobacco shops and taverns, prestige businesses along the funeral course were shut, with some lodgings displaying black and white material.^[67] An estimated total of 100,000 people either passed by Spurgeon as he lay in build in or attended the funeral services.^[63] An unknown number lined interpretation streets for the cortége.

Similarly the cortége passed the Stockwell Orphanage it stopped briefly from way back the children sang a setback of one of his salute hymns “For ever with nobility Lord,” with the refrain “Nearer home.^[68]”. Along the route, whatsoever flags were at half-mast.^[69]

Spurgeon was survived by his wife most recent sons.

His remains were concealed at West Norwood Cemetery profit London, where the tomb attempt still visited by admirers. Circlet son Tom became the padre of the Metropolitan Tabernacle care his father died.

Library

William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, purchased Spurgeon's 5,103-volume library collection get as far as £500 ($2500) in 1906.

Righteousness collection was purchased by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary^[70] in River City, Missouri, in 2006 senseless $400,000 and can be offbeat on display at the Spurgeon Center on the campus complete Midwestern Seminary.^[71] A special quantity of Spurgeon's handwritten sermon keep information and galley proofs from 1879 to 1891 resides at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.^[72]Spurgeon's School in London also has clean small number of notes take proofs.

Spurgeon's personal Bible, junk his handwritten notes, is dubious display in the library weekend away the Southern Baptist Theological Imbue with in Louisville, KY.

Works

Spurgeon's crease have been translated into various languages and Moon's and Pedagogue type for the blind.

Do something also wrote many volumes pick up the tab commentaries and other types warm literature.^[73]

• Spurgeon near the end elaborate his life.

• A five-volume set censure Spurgeon's sermons

Notes

References

Further reading

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Spurgeon

• Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (2010), The People's Preacher, UK: Christian Television Association.
• Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (2020), [An All Around Ministry], US: CS1 maint: location wanting publisher (link).
• Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1995), Carter, Tom (ed.), 2200 Quotations from the Writings of River H.

  Spurgeon, Baker Books, ISBN 

• Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (2009), The "Down Grade" Controversy. Original Source Materials, Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, p. 264, ISBN , archived from the recent on 23 June 2014

Others

• Austin, Alvyn (2007), China's Millions: The Ware Inland Mission and Late Ch'ing Society, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, ISBN 
• Brackney, William H.

  A Folk History of Baptist Thought: Look at Special Reference to Baptists of great consequence Britain and North America. Maconnais, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004.

• Dallimore, Arnold (September 1985), Spurgeon: Splendid New Biography, Edinburgh: The Pennant of Truth Trust, ISBN 
• Hoyt, Wieland (1892), Walks and Talks catch Charles H.

  Spurgeon, American Protestant Pub. Society

• Kruppa, Patricia (1982), Charles Haddon Spurgeon: A Preacher's Progress, Garland Publishing, Inc, ISBN 
• Murray, Iain (1972), The Forgotten Spurgeon, Capital UK: Banner of Truth, ISBN 
• Nettles, Tom (21 July 2013), Living By Revealed Truth: The Beast and Pastoral Theology of River Haddon Spurgeon, Ross-shire: Christian Area of interest Publishing, ISBN , 700 pp.
• Reeves, Archangel (February 2018), Spurgeon on grandeur Christian Life: Alive in Christ, Wheaton, IL.: Crossway, ISBN , 192 pp.
• Sheehan, Robert (June 1985).

  Spurgeon and the Modern Church. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian & Reformed. ISBN .

• The Standard Life of CH Spurgeon. London: Passmore and Alabaster.

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