I bet you didn't know some of these facts about Charles H. Spurgeon. Below are a from this article by Eric W. Hayden, a former pastor of Metropoliton Tabernacle, where Spurgeon preached for 38 years:
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon is history's most widely read preacher (apart from the biblical ones). Today, there is available more material written by Spurgeon than by any other Christian author, living or dead.
- One woman was converted through reading a single page of one of Spurgeon's sermons wrapped around some butter she had bought.
- Spurgeon read The Pilgrim's Progress at age 6 and went on to read it over 100 times.
- The New Park Street Pulpit and The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit—the collected sermons of Spurgeon during his ministry with that congregation—fill 63 volumes. The sermons' 20-25 million words are equivalent to the 27 volumes of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. The series stands as the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity.
Praise the Lord for powerfully gifted men like Charles Spurgeon! Read the rest of the article (click here) to learn how many times Spurgeon preached before the age of 20 (hint: if you guessed 500, think higher!) ... and many other interesting facts.
HT:Ryan
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It should be noted that I live 10 miles from Spurgeon's 6,000 volume library, housed at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. The link to the MBTS is not correct. Here is the new link: http://www.mbts.edu/academics/spurgeon_collection/
Please stop by and see us in Parkville if you go visit the Spurgeon collection!
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