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Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892)

It was one hundred and twenty years ago today that Charles Haddon Spurgeon finished his earthly race. He was 57 years old. The life and legacy of Spurgeon is well known. He was London’s most popular preacher during the second half of the 19th century. He was passionately and thoroughly biblical and unusually gifted in his mental and oratory abilities. He was also incredibly prolific. The manuscripts of his sermons fill 63 volumes,“stands alone as the largest set of books by a single author in the history of Christianity.”

Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
In his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people,^[1] often up to 10 times each week at different places. His sermons have been translated into many languages. Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years.^[2] He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination.^[3] In 1857, he started a charity organization called Spurgeon's which now works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously.
Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more.^[4][5] Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held throngs of listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature.

 Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892), preacher, came of a family of Dutch origin which sought refuge in England during the persecution of the Duke of Alva. Charles Haddon's grandfather, James Spurgeon (1776-1864), born at Halstead, Essex, was independent minister at Stambourne. His son, John Spurgeon, the father of Charles Haddon, born in 1811, was successively minister of the independent congregations of Tollesbury, Essex, of Cranbrook, Kent, of Fetter Lane, and of Upper Street, Islington.

 

 PURITAN WRITINGS IN THE CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON COLLECTIONCURRY LIBRARYWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGELIBERTY, MISSOURI

C.H. Spurgeon - The People's Preacher

THIS IS THE MOST OUTSTANDING VIDEO ON CHARLES SURGEON AND HIS LIFE.

I have read a lot of books on Spurgeon, but this is the first video that I have seen about him. Of course they have actors playing the part but it is so so good. A must view.

Charles H. Spurgeon Preaching and Preparation

Charles Spurgeon apparently had a wonderful mind given to him by God for understanding and preaching the Word of God. The more I learn about him the more I believe he was so gifted fo rthe special ministry that he had. He had the gifted to remember what he read. It is said that he could recall what he read while preaching.

This week I read a lot about Spurgeon. Here.

As a young child his toys were books. He learned to read them early and quickly. Eventually he could read six ordinary books at a sitting, and as many substantial volumes in a week. A retentive memory and a computer-like recall system provided grist for the mill of preparation for sermons, lectures, and books. Spurgeon's magazine The Sword and the Trowel often contained as many as fifty book reviews from his pen — sufficient proof of his capacity. References here

Spurgeon mind was so filled with what he read I would think, and had the ability to remember and put them into words is remarkable.

The more you read the more you are able to think about a subject.

I wonder how Spurgeon would have done in the computer age. He had nothing but his pen. He had his books to read. He read books, which are now out of print.


How he had the ability to speak to great crowds is beyond my understanding. Of course there are many who do this very thing today. Billy Graham to name one.


I guess what I am trying to say, Spurgeon had a method that he was able to use to present and prepare a sermon. Understanding that the Holy Spirit was the guide to his thinking. Of course we believe that God via the Holy Spirit gives us direction as to preparation of sermons.


This pfd site has 216 pages of 41 sermons by Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon's Personal Library

Spurgeon's study at Westwood, his family home, contained more than 12,000 volumes. The majority of these were acquired by a donor who gave them to Curry Library at William Jewell College (near Kansas City). Books, furniture, and all were moved there, where they resided in a room that was a replica of Spurgeon's personal study until 2006.

Emmett O'Donnell of spurgeongems.org announces all 3,563 C. H. Spurgeon sermons are now on his website.

John MacArthur on Charles Spurgeon & Worldly Preaching

The church needs men like Charles Spurgeon. Surgeon was a man that was not afraid to boldly stand for the truth. Preaching the Word of God was his sole passion. He believed the churches tolerance of real preaching was beginning to decline. He looked around at other pastors and say they were already beginning to experience with shorter sermons and looking for different approaches. Shorter messages to be more applicable or relevant. And to drew bigger crowds’.

He saw that preachers were beginning to compromise truth, and doctrine by preaching less and doing other things more and more.

But Spurgeon saw the danger of that, and he spent a great deal of time holding on to the truth. And doing do led the Baptist of his time to sender him. And while at one time he was the most respected preacher now he was not. And it took such a toile on him that it lead to his death.

This idea of whether you should stick to this straight forward of God’s ordained method of preaching or move on to a more relevant kind of entertaining method led to a negative to his health and then his life.

As you know since his death in 1865, some have kept the faith of faithful preaching. Others have of course question that.

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“wasting less time listening to long sermons and spending more time preparing short ones. People, I’ve discovered, will forgive even poor theology as long as they get out before not.” A preacher wrote.

Do you understand the heart of the quote? It is better for the preacher to keep the congregation conformable, entertain and interested; even what he is preaching is not completely biblical. And that I am afraid does sum up the average attitude of preachers and people in Christian ministry today.

Bad doctrine is okay, but a long sermon is most certainly is not. The length of the sermon is far more of concern to the average church goer

The length of the sermon is of more concern to the average church goers than the content of the sermon.

Where you are going to eat lunch, or what, has more impact than the nourishment of the spiritual soul. Today long sermons is considered a greater sin than hersey. We are willing to put personal comfort over the very important virtues: like truth and doctrine and God’s glory. And that kind of thinking as the attitude that could destroy the church.

John MacArthur

Charles Spuregon on the work of the Preacher in the Pulpit

CHARLES SURGEON SPEAKING ON THE PASTOR AND THE IMPORTANT WORK HE IS TO DO?

C. H. Spurgeon, as recorded in Lectures to My Students: Second Series (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1877), HERE

Brethren, you and I must, as preachers, be always earnest in reference to our pulpit work. Here we must labour to attain the very highest degree of excellence. Often have I said to my brethren that the pulpit is the Thermopylae of Christendom: there the fight will be lost or won. To us ministers the maintenance of our power in the pulpit should be our great concern, we must occupy that spiritual watch-tower with our hearts and minds awake and in full vigour. It will not avail us to be laborious pastors if we are not earnest preachers. We shall be forgiven a great many sins in the matter of pastoral visitation if the people's souls are really fed on the Sabbath-day; but fed they must be, and nothing else will make up for it. The failures of most ministers who drift down the stream may be traced to inefficiency in the pulpit. The chief business of a captain is to know how to handle his vessel, nothing can compensate for deficiency there, and so our pulpits must be our main care, or all will go awry. Dogs often fight because the supply of bones is scanty, and congregations frequently quarrel because they do not get sufficient spiritual meat to keep them happy and peaceful. The ostensible ground of dissatisfaction may be something else, but nine times out of ten deficiency in their rations is at the bottom of the mutinies which occur in our churches. Men, like all other animals, know when they are fed, and they usually feel good tempered after a meal; and so when our hearers come to the house of God, and obtain "food convenient for them," they forget a great many grievances in the joy of the festival, but if we send them away hungry they will be in as irritable a mood as a bear robbed of her whelps.

IS THE SPIRIT OFGOD IN YOU REALLY?

Do you have the Spirit of God in you? You have some religion, most of you. But what kind is it? Is it a home-made article? Did you make yourself what you are? If so, you are a lost man up to this moment. If you have gone no further than you have walked yourself, you are not on the road to heaven yet, you have got your face turned the wrong way. But if you have received something which neither flesh nor blood could reveal to you, if you have been led to do the very thing which you once hated and to love that which you once despised and to despise what your heart and your pride were once set on, then, if this is the Spirit’s work, rejoice, for where he has begun the good work he will carry it on.

And you may know whether it is the Spirit’s work by this. Have you been led to Christ, and away from self? Have you been led away from all feelings, from all doings, from all willings, from all prayings, as the ground of your trust and your hope, and have you been brought nakedly to rely upon the finished work of Christ? If so, this is more than human nature ever taught any man. This is a height to which human nature never climbed. The Spirit of God has done that, and he will never leave what he has once begun. . . .

But if you do not have the Spirit of Christ, you are not his. May the Spirit lead you to your room now to weep, now to repent, and now to look to Christ, and may you now have a divine life implanted which neither time nor eternity shall be able to destroy.”

C. H. Spurgeon, Revival Year Sermons (Edinburgh, 1996), page 65. Style updated.

Charles H. Spurgeon Sermons

CHARLES H. SPURGEON SERMONS

• Charles H. Spurgeon sermons has been used by more preachers than any other preacher I think. I remember on of my first experience preaching outside my home church was in North Caroline, at my father's friends church. That Sunday Morning I preached a sermon that Charles Spurgeon had preached. I was only about 17 years old. I had no idea of the impact of Charles Spurgeon. I knew that Dad had a set of his sermons in his own library and I was reading the sermons. So I thought it would be good to take on of the sermons and try to preach it. Of course I had not been to seminary and had little idea about the art of preaching. But that was the beginning of my learing to preach.

Simply recording Spurgeon's messages was a labor-intensive process in those days before electronic sound-capture was commonplace. Spurgeon spoke extemporaneously, without the use of a manuscript. (He normally took only half a used envelope or a similar scrap of paper into the pulpit with him, containing just a handwritten, bare-bones outline.) Two or three stenographers would record his words as he spoke. Their transcriptions would be compared and combined, insuring that very few words were missed. Then either Spurgeon himself (usually), his trusted secretary (especially in later years), or another qualified editor (beginning around the turn of the century) would edit the transcript for publication. I own several pages of edited transcripts with emendations scrawled into the margins by Spurgeon's own distinctive hand, and he was a meticulous editor. (It is some consolation to me as a rather halting preacher to see that some of the stunning eloquence of the published sermons was added during the editorial process. All that genius wasn't straight off the top of Spurgeon's head when he preached-though much of it was.) The task of editing and proofreading sermons was a massive one, and the stress of so many relentless deadlines no doubt complicated Spurgeon's frequent health problems. It may well have hastened his death.

DIVINE SIDE AND THE HUMAN SIDE OF SALVATION

The following excerpt is from "The Father's Will," a sermon first published in 1873. We start with the text Spurgeon was preaching from:

"This is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day" (John 6:39-40).



The two phrases set forth the divine side of salvation and the human side of salvation.

You know, beloved friends, that the general custom is, with the various sects of Christians, to take up one part of the Bible and preach that part, and then it is the duty of all divines on that
side of the question not to preach anything but that. Or if they find a text that looks in rather a different direction, these gentlemen are expected to twist it round to suit their creed, it being supposed that only one set of truths can possibly be worth defending, it never having entered into the heads of some people that there can be two apparently irreconcilable truths which
nevertheless are equally valuable.


Think not that I come here to defend the human side of salvation at the expense of the divine; nor am I desirous to magnify the divine side of it at the expense of the human; rather would I beseech you to look at the two texts which are together before us, and to be prepared to receive both sets of truths. I think it a very dangerous thing to say that the truth lies between the
two extremes. It does not: the truth lies in the two, in the comprehension of both; not in taking a part from this and a part from that, toning down one and modulating the other, as is too much the custom, but in believing and giving full expression to everything that God reveals whether we can reconcile the things or not, opening our hearts as children open their understandings to their father's teaching, feeling that if the gospel were such that we could make it into a complete system, we might be quite sure it was not God's gospel, for any system that comes from God must be too grand for the human brain to grasp at one effort; and any path that he takes must extend too far beyond the line of our vision for us to make a nice little map of it, and mark it out in squares.


This world, you know, we can readily enough map. Go and get charts, and you shall find that men of understanding have indicated almost every rock in the sea, almost every hamlet on the land; but they cannot map out the heavens in that way, for albeit that you can buy the celestial atlas, yet as you are well enough aware there is not one in ten thousand of the stars that can possibly be put there; when they are resolved by the telescope they become altogether
innumerable, and so far exceed all count that it is impossible for us to reckon them up in order and say, that is the name of this, and this is the name of that. We must leave them: they are beyond us. There are deeps into which we cannot peer; even the strongest glass cannot show us much more than a mere corner of the starry worlds.

Thus too is it with the doctrines of the gospel: they are too bright for our weak eyes, too sublime for our finite minds to scan, save at a humble distance. Be it ours to take all we can of their solemn import, to believe them heartily, accept them gratefully, and then fall down before the Lord, and pour out our very souls in worshipping him.

CHARLES H. SPURGEON..............

THE TEACHING OF THE DOCTRINE OF GRACE IS NEEDFUL TO OUR PEOPLE.