DEATH OF THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2314, 4 February 1892, Page 3

DEATH OF THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON.

London, Feb. 1. Mr Spurgeon died peacefully at 11 o’clock on Sunday night in the presence of his wife and a few friends. He had been insensible since mid-day. The body will be brought from Mentone to England for interment. The cause of death was congestion of ithe kidneys and gout in the head. The press refer in eulogistic terms to the rev. gentleman, and declare that the death of such a fearless minister is a national loss. Later. Mr Spurgeon died of Bright’s disease. He never recognised anyone after Saturday night. The family desire that the remains should be buried at Mentone, but will consent to a public funeral in London if the deacons of the Church desire it.

The Press in their comments on r’f'Mx Spurgeon’s death recognise that he had taken broader views latterly, especially towards the Church of England. Auckland, Feb. 2. At a meeting of the Auckland Presbytery to-night a motion was passed expressing sorrow at the death of the late Mr Spurgeon . Spurgeon, Charles Haddon, the son of •- an Independent minister, was born at Kelvedon, Essex, June 19,1831, and soon \)y his pious precocity attracted the attention of all around him.’ After four years’ schooling at Colchester, he became an usher at Newmarket (1849) and at Cambridge (1850), where, having joined the Baptists, he began to preach, a lad m his seventeenth year. Receiving an invitation to the Baptist chapel of NfJW Park Street, Southwark (1853), ‘ he came, he preached, he conquered,’ and in the following spring entered upon its pastorate. In two years’ time his fame had outgrown his church, and he had to hold services in the Surrey Music Hall till the opening of the Metropolitan labemacle (1861) gave him a building holding 6000 persons. L Here he has since continued to labor, with rHhe exception of short excursions at home 1 and on the Continent. Opinions differ as to his preaching powers, but measured by the standard of success they be its teat, the Tabernacle membership haying isrettOily Increased from 1178 (1861) to .0102 ti. 877), whilst at the Crystal Palace rtnfl Agricultural Hail he has attracted,co azlegations of 20,000 and 12,000 persons. Up to 1877 his Pastors’ College (opened 1855: rebuilt 1874) had trained 388 •pastors, and the Stockwell Orphanage .opened 1869) had received 428 oiphans. His works, morever, have had an enormous sale—the “Sermons (1855 et seq.,) the monthly “ Sword oud Trowel ” (1865 et seq.,) in which “ John Ploughman’s Talk” (260,000 th, 1877) first appeared, the “Lectures to My Students, &c.” r See Stevenson’s S., “ His Life and Work,” ,(London 1877.)—Globe Encyclopedia. Nearly all the flour men of the northjy' western States of the American Onion 1 have contributed to the relief of the starving Russians. About one million pounds have already been sent.