Charles H. Spurgeon: The Essex Lad Who Became the Prince of Preachers

by James T. Allen

Publisher:

Pickering & Inglis

, 1893

Overview

This volume was one of the first of the numerous biographies of Charles Spurgeon to appear, and was written by James T. Allen the year of Spurgeon’s death. It recounts Spurgeon’s childhood years, his ministry, his rise to fame throughout the world, and the later years of his life. The Logos Bible Software edition of Charles H. Spurgeon: The Essex Lad Who Became the Prince of Preachers was originally published in London by Pickering & Inglis in 1893.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Spurgeons came of an old Puritan stock, and they were a race of sturdy Non-conformists.” (Page 4)

“We do not measure great men by their specific opinions on this or that question, or by their adherence to this or that dogma. We rather estimate them by their volume of moral and spiritualising power, by the essential qualities of their manhood, by the leavening influences for righteousness that emanate from their own lives.” (Page 3)

“Retaining till the last a predilection for the old school of Calvinistic theologians, this veteran also at times could deal in that species of wit which is supposed to be characteristic of a Puritan ancestry.’” (Page 5)

“It is somewhat remarkable that this family were all Paedo-Baptists, until the subject of our sketch, and his brother James, declared for believers’ baptism by immersion.” (Page 5)

“Spurgeon was a born genius, and in a very few years had far outridden the intelligence of his would-be teachers.” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: Charles H. Spurgeon: The Essex Lad Who Became the Prince of Preachers
• Author: James T. Allen
• Publisher: Pickering & Inglis
• Pages: 62

About James T. Allen

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, England on June 19, 1834. He converted to Christianity in 1850 at a small Methodist chapel, to which he detoured during a snowstorm. While there, he heard a sermon on Isaiah 45:22 and was saved—“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.” He began his own ministry of preaching and teaching immediately, and preached more than 500 sermons by the age of twenty.

In 1854, at nineteen years of age, Spurgeon began preaching at the New Park Street Chapel in London. He was appointed to a six month trial position, which he requested be cut to three months should the congregation dislike his preaching. He gained instant fame, however, and the church grew from 232 members to more than five thousand at the end of his pastorate. Many of his sermons were published each week and regularly sold more than 25,000 copies in twenty languages. Throughout his ministry, Spurgeon estimated that he preached to more than 10,000,000 people. Dwight L. Moody was deeply influenced by Spurgeon’s preaching, and founded the Moody Bible Institute after seeing Spurgeon’s work at the Pastor’s College in London.

Spurgeon read six books per week during his adult life, and read Pilgrim’s Progress more than 100 times. In addition to his studying and preaching, Spurgeon also founded the Pastor’s College (now Spurgeon’s College), various orphanages and schools, mission chapels, and numerous other social institutions.

Charles Spurgeon suffered from poor health throughout his life. He died on January 31, 1892, and was buried in London.