Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Life
Born: 19 June 1834
Died: 31 January 1892
Biography
Spurgeon, who was considered to be a Puritan out of time, grew up in a baptist manse in East Anglia. He became a believer as a teenager when he turned in from the snow which hindered his passage any further to hear a man, who in his own words could not preach but only had one thing to say: Look and live! And to whom should young Spurgeon look? To none other than the one of whom he then preached for forty years, the Lord Jesus Christ who hung on a cross for sinners, firstly at Waterbeach in Cambridge and latterly at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. He established a training college for baptist ministers, homes for poor orphans in London, and many other charitable works. He stood for Augustinian, reformed, evangelical theology in the face of the downgrade of the gospel in the Baptist Union. His preaching was greatly owned by God for the conversion of sinners. At the Crystal Palace even his prior testing of the acoustics with the text Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world touched the soul of at least one of the workmen. His sermons were published each week and gained a world wide circulation. His commentaries, and in particular his Treasury of David, being comments on the Psalms, are literally a treasure chest for any amateur preacher, and even for the professional, and of great use and benefit to all believers.
So much more could be said of the man, but this is not the place and he would have preferred more to be said of his Saviour than of him. So let it rest here and answer his question to us: Sinner, is your heart at rest? Is your bosom void of fear? with the only answer that he gives: Fly to Jesus, sinner fly!
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