Who is Charles Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.

Spurgeon was pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later he left the denomination over doctrinal convictions. While at the Metropolitan Tabernacle he built an Almshouse, the Stockwell Orphanage a...
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Davidjoannes: we are hurrying through this world as through a foreign land. we are in this country, not as residents, but only as visitors, who take this country en route for glory. — charles spurgeon
Randomamzn: charles spurgeon: a biography: the life of c. h. spurgeon by a close friend
Joann320adams: “i shall never understand, even in heaven, why the lord jesus should ever have loved me.” charles spurgeon
Joann320adams: "i cannot err when i have god's word in my lips." charles spurgeon
Rickbradley_: “i have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the rock of ages.” -charles spurgeon
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Ballade Of The Midnight Forest
 by Andrew Lang

Still sing the mocking fairies, as of old,
Beneath the shade of thorn and holly-tree;
The west wind breathes upon them, pure and cold,
And wolves still dread Diana roaming free
In secret woodland with her company.
'Tis thought the peasants' hovels know her rite
When now the wolds are bathed in silver light,
And first the moonrise breaks the dusky grey,
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