MR SPURGEON AND THE BUTCHERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3297, 13 September 1873, Page 3

MR SPURGEON AND THE BUTCHERS.

Mr Spurgeon is a man of odd eloquence. If he were less sincere, it would be impossible not to likeu him to the gentle Chadband, so unctuously picturesque is he at times. On Easter Tuesday, there was a great butchers’ tea party at the Tabernacle —a party which did away with 1,150 lbs of meat, 10 cwt. of bread and cake, and a river of tea. Mr Spurgeon preached to the assembly a sermon having in it a number of pleasing and appropriate allusions—one of which, for instance, was the declaration that “ if anybody could make a rocking-horse go sixteen miles an hour it was a butcher,” to which retined clerical jest he added the advice to the Jehus of the trade, to take a little more pams not to drive over passengers. He likewise prayed with his audience of 1,200 butchers, boldly invoking “ a Divine blessing on the shambles.” Further even than this he carried his idea of the fitness of things, and gratified his taste for local coloring by causing the 1,200 to sing the hymn — There is a fountain filled with blood, The whole performance certainly seams very queer, but it may have had a more instant effect upon the congregation than a more sacred-seeming service would have had.— American paper.