SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 16 November 1911, Page 7

SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE

SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL PREACHING. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, November 11. Remarkable revivalism successes are attending Dr. Dixon's services in Spurgeon's Tabernacle. Tho scenes are similar to those in the days of Spurgeon, tho famous preacher. DR. DIXON. Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, is tho son of a Baptist minister, and one of six brothers who are all ministers. "Dr. Dixon," says "The Watchman," "graduated at Wako Forest College, N.C., and received the degreo of Doctor of Divinity from Washington and Lee University, Virginia. He pursued his theological studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville. Few men arc moro widely known as preacher and lecturer, both north and south. The pastorate of the Metropolitan Tabernacle is probably the most influential, in an evangelical point of view, of any in the world. Many preachers have been called from Great Britain to America, and tho call of Dr. Dixon to London recalls tho fact that, whilo English preachers excel in expository preaching, it is America that supplies the great evangelists to bring about effective results, men of the typo of Dwight L. Moody. R. A. Torrey, John 11. Chapman, and A. C. Dixon."

In the highest spirits, with renewed prospects of full congregations, a busy church life, and a high place in the denomination, the Metropolitan Tabernaclo welcomed its new pastor on Monday, Juno 26. Mr. Olney, speaking on behalf of the officials, quoted some remarks of C. 11. Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, and others, which had a distinct bearing ,on Dr. Dixon's succession to tho historic pastorate. When Dr. Dixon visited the church in 1889, Mr. Spurgeon wrote in "Tho Sword and Iho Trowel": "lie is a brother as great in heart as ho is tall in body." Moody's remark was to Dr. Dixon himself: "If anything happens to Spurgeon, you ought to go and succeed him." The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, who was welcomed with cheers, whole-heartedly welcomed his second successor, whom ho described as "a preacher and a man." No one would bo gladder to hear of Dr. Dixon's harvest than ho, who onco sowed that same field.