Weekly Examiner • Page 7
Saturday, October 25, 1856
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England
Married on January 8, 1856, Charles and Susannah first lived here at 217 New Kent Road…. No. 217, where Charles & Susannah lived for ~1 year after getting married.
C.H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography
The portrait, which forms the frontispiece to this volume, has never before, so far as I know, been published. It was a lover’s gift to the one who was very soon to become his bride, and I recall how, in the glamour of “love’s young dream,” I used to gaze on the sweet boyish face, and think no angel could look half so lovely! Afterwards, the picture was enshrined in a massive oaken frame, and it occupied the place of honor on the walls of the house in the New Kent Road, where we began our life’s journey together, and founded our first home. Many a time, during my husband’s long absences, when fulfilling his almost ceaseless preaching engagements, has this portrait comforted me; its expression of calm confident faith strengthened my heart, and I used to think the up-raised finger pointed to the source whence I must draw consolation in my loneliness.
Something of the same soothing and sacred influence steals over me as I look at it now with tear-filled eyes; it speaks to me, even as it did in those days of long ago, and it says, “Do not fear, my beloved, God is taking care of us both; and though we are still separated for a little while, we shall meet again at home by-and-by!”
