Wikipedia: Spurgeons was founded in 1867 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon.[3] as Stockwell Orphanage – due to its location. The inspiration for starting an orphanage came from a visit with George Muller.[4][5][6] and then spurred on by a donation of £20,000 by Anne Hillyard.[7][8][9] However, it wasn’t this £20,000 that was used to fund the beginning of the orphanage. Spurgeon records in the 1876 publicationThe Metropolitan Tabernacle. Read more...
Wikipedia: In 1868, the world’s first aeronautical exhibition was held in the Crystal Palace. In 1871, the world’s first cat show, organised by Harrison Weir, was held there. Other shows, such as dog shows, pigeon shows, honey shows and flower shows, as well as the first national motor show were also held at the Palace.[44] The match which later has been dubbed the world’s first bandy match was Read more...
A Pilgrims Coffer: In 1857, Charles and Susannah left New Kent Road and moved down to 99 Nightingale Lane, in the Clapham area, West of Brixton. The house they moved into afforded for much more room than they previously had in Newington, while also offering the rural feel and slower pace they desired. Autobiography This illustration represents the pulpit stairs Read more...
A Sunday School is still operated by Metropolitan Tabernacle in the neighborhood. Wikipedia: The famous Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon held religious services at the Music Hall in weekends because the New Park Street Chapel could not contain his audiences. The first service was held on the evening of Sunday 19 October 1856, with an audience of 10,000 inside and as many outside unable to enter. Read more...
A Pilgrim’s Coffer: Joseph Passmore was the grandson of Mary Rippon, sister of Rev. John Rippon—who opened and presided over the congregation at New Park Street Chapel several decades before C.H. Spurgeon arrived. Shortly after Spurgeon’s arrival, he and Passmore struck up a friendship and, in January of 1855, Passmore & Alabaster began printing every original sermon and direct work Read more...
Weekly Examiner • Page 7 Saturday, October 25, 1856 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England HEALTH OF THE REV. MR. SPURGEON. Mr. Spurgeon, we are informed, is not at his residence in the Kent-road; but has removed out of town. He labours, we apprehend, not so much from excitement, as from the reaction consequent on the events of the terrible evening. His Read more...
The Daily Telegraph Tue, Jul 03, 1855 ·Page 1 A Pilgrim’s Coffer: The New Park Street Chapel only had room for about 1,200 people, and by 1855—only a year into his pastorate—Spurgeon began hold services at Exeter Hall, on the North side of The Strand, near Wellington Street and the Waterloo Bridge. The main hall auditorium was able to hold Read more...
A Pilgrim’s Coffer At the age of 20, Charles Spurgeon came to New Park Street Chapel from his first pastorate at a small Baptist church in Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire. This congregation had continuously met since 1650, beginning in the Tower Bridge area and continuing in the proximity until they built the church at New Park Street in 1833—at the rear of Read more...
Here lies the body of CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Waiting for the appearing of his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ Also that of his dearly beloved wife, SUSANNAH Born January 15, 1832, Died October 22, 1903 His love in time past forbids me to think He’ll leave me at last in trouble to sink Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review Read more...
From the church: The great Victorian ‘Prince of Preachers’, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, began his ministry here at the Baptist church in Waterbeach. Every great venture of faith has to begin somewhere, and we are seeking to rekindle the passion and impact of Spurgeon’s ministry in our present-day community some 170 years later. Spurgeon always had a fond love and appreciation Read more...
From the Ely Standard: Charles Spurgeon, who gave sermons to more than 10,000 people at a time in the nineteenth century, was baptised in the river Lark at Isleham. Retired Anglican priest, Christopher Goodwins, said Spurgeon has been remembered for five years with a Ecumenical processional along the lanes of the village and along the river to the site of Read more...
From Wikipedia: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834[1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the “Prince of Preachers.” He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church Read more...
“However, from an historical viewpoint, this church is most famous for being the place where Charles Haddon Spurgeon – a very famous Victorian preacher – was converted in January 1850. As a lad of 15, Spurgeon was struggling up Hythe Hill in a snow blizzard one Sunday, trying to get to another church in Colchester. He realised he was not Read more...
Watch Douglas Whitney as Spurgeon: Metropolitan Tabernacle, where Charles Spurgeon once served, is at the junction of Elephant and Castle Streets (Southwark). copyrighted and used by permission from David Beale, Baptist History in England and America: Personalities, Positions, and Practices Photo By The original uploader was Secretlondon at English Wikipedia. – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, Read more...
