The Rev C H. Spurgeon

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 93, 4 February 1892, Page 2

The Rev C H. Spurgeon

■ ♦ i (PBE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) i London, Febrnary 2. The funeral service of the late Rev. C. H. Spurgeon will be held in the Presbyterian Church at Men tone 1 on Thursday. In the meantime the body, has been embalmed, and the coffin will reach London on Monday. . The remains will bo interred temporarily at Norwood and finally at Stockwell. February 3. The Key. Mr SpurgeonV body after arrival in London will lioin tbeTaber* nacle for three days and during that period memorial services will beheld. The Prince of Wales has sent a ines* sage to Mrs Spurgeon expressing deep sympathy with her in her bereavement. Messages of condolence and sympathy are being received by the widow fjroita many denominations in England) United Stater, and Australia. , .-.* '; ; { Charles Hadden Spurgeon, borri aft Kelvedon, Essex, June 19, 1884^ was educated at Colchester, and became usher in a school at Newmarket. Some of his relatives, who were Independents, proposed that he should enter one of their colleges, and undergo a training •forithe ministry ; but as be held Anabaptist views, he joined the congregation whjoh had been presidod over by the late Robert Hall, at Cambridge. From this period he became a village preacher and--tract distributor at Treversham, a villaga near Cambridge; under the designation of "the Boy Preacher," delivered his first sermon ; and shortly afterwards ao* cepted an invitation to become '-pastor at a small Baptist chapel at Waterbeaeh. The lad of 17 became a well-known character; the barn. at "Waterbeaoh was filled with auditors, while crowds" contended themselves with listening to the sound of his voice from the outside, in. vitations to preach were sent to him from the surrounding places, .his fanae'reached London, and he was offered the chapel in New Park street, in Sonthwark, in which Dr Bippon at one time preached. Mr Spurgeon made his first appearance before a London congregation in 1858, with so much success, that ere two years had elapsed it was considered necessary, to enlarge the building, pending which r alteration he officiated for four: months aft Exeter Hall. That edifice was crowded, and hundreds turned away from the doors. The enlargement of the chapel in Park street, however, proved insufficient,*^ and his hearers multiplied, with such rapidity, that it became expedient to engage the Surrey Music Hall. A lamentable accident haying occurred within its walls in Ootober, 1856, his followers erected for him a large new chapel called the " Tabernacle," in Newingtbn; Butts, which was publicly opened in 1661. In the year 1867 Mr Spurgeon*- laid the foundation stone of the great Stockwell Orphanage, and since then he has taken a leading part in philanthropic work in the Metropolis. His published writings [ and sermons are numerous, and the latter are read for their religious teaching by all denominations. The name of Spurgeon has been a household word for a generation, and the works of his later life, which are fresh in the minds of all interested in ao notable a career, there is no necessity to recount. His loss at a comparatively early age will be felt and mourned by every religions body through* out the English speaking world. " '*t