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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 14

Tlio Christian World of October statosi Prior to his admission to tho Pastors' Collose .as "a theological student, Mr. Thomas Spurgcon received a training in art. Now that ho !f obliged to rest from his preaching through ill-health ho has resumed his pencil to good purpose. Arrangements have been ■ made for an exhibition of about eighty of .Mr. Spurgeou's water-colour pictures at Walker's Gallery, 118, New Bond Street, from October 25 to November G. ? An artist friend, who has seen the pictures, pronounces them to'boflno works of art. Tho pictures will incliido scenes at Homo and abroad—in Bavaria,' Austria/ South Tyrol and England, -including Devon, Cornwall, Kant, and Bucks..ln addition, scenes associated with C. 11. SpurgeonV early life will' prove, of special - interest. These are generally picturesqno; as,' for example, tlio Kelvedon' Street,, where, Spnrgeou was born, the cottage in which ho preached, for the first time, and Islcliam Ferry, whero ho was bapfiswl,