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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834 [1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher.Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers."
A son, Thomas Harold Spurgeon, was born in 1891. Thomas returned to England after the death of his father and succeeded him in his pulpit ministry after a brief period under Arthur Tappan Pierson. During Thomas' fifteen-year pastorate, the Tabernacle burned in 1898 and was rebuilt along similar lines.
The co-pastorate was dissolved in 1908 when Thomas Spurgeon resigned for reasons of health, and Brown accepted the role of sole pastor. By 1910 Brown himself was ill, and he resigned at the end of the year, though he continued to preach occasionally even after the American, A. C. Dixon, had been called as pastor. [18]
John Rippon, 1773–1836 (63 years) Joseph Angus, 1837–39 (2 years) James Smith, [17] 1841–50 (8 ½ years) William Walters, 1851–53 (2 years) Charles Spurgeon, 1854–92 (38 years) Arthur Tappan Pierson, 1891–93 (pulpit supply only, not installed as a Pastor – 2 years) Thomas Spurgeon, 1893–1908 (15 years) Archibald G. Brown, 1908 ...
Open-air preaching in China using the Wordless Book [1]. The Wordless Book is a Christian evangelistic book. Evidence points to it being invented by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in a message given on January 11, 1866 [2] to several hundred orphans regarding Psalm 51:7 "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
Spurgeon speaks of the expression "Verily, verily" as "the peculiar idiom of our Lord Jesus Christ". [1] The Greek wording is αμην αμην, amēn, amēn. [9] Jesus talks of what it means to be born again and the path to heaven. "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
The school was founded in 1856 by Pastor Charles Spurgeon as "Pastors' College" in London. [3] [4] His vision was to provide a practical theological education, mission-centered. [5] By 1892, the school had trained 863 students. [6] In 1923, it moved to its present building and was renamed in honor of its founder. [7]
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement or period or series of events in Western Christianity in 16th-century Northwestern Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.