Biography of charles haddon spurgeon
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Charles Spurgeon
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist (1834–1892)
The Reverend Charles Spurgeon | |
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Portrait of Spurgeon bygd Alexander Melville (1885) | |
| Born | Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-06-19)19 June 1834 Kelvedon, England |
| Died | 31 January 1892(1892-01-31) (aged 57) Menton, France |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Pastor, author |
| Spouse | Susannah Thompson |
| Children | Charles and Thomas Spurgeon (twins) (1856) |
| Parent(s) | John and Eliza Spurgeon |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19th June 1834[1] – 31st January 1892) was an English Particular Baptistpreacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, to some of whom he fryst vatten 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 frikostig and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
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Who is Charles Haddon Spurgeon?
Who is Charles Haddon Spurgeon? Known as the “Prince of Preachers,” this Victorian, Calvinistic, Baptist minister testified as a powerful gospel witness in his time, but his influence endures today. So much so that Carl F. H. Henry, the dean of twentieth-century evangelical theologians, once called Spurgeon “one of evangelical Christianity’s immortals.”
But what makes Spurgeon immortal? Whether you are new to Spurgeon, or a familiar friend, here are a few things you should know about Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Born on June 19th, 1834, in Kelvedon, Essex, to John and Eliza Spurgeon, he was the firstborn of seventeen children, although unfortunately only eight survived adolescence. A boy who loved books, he quickly became fascinated with John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. However, Charles did not lose his own burden at the foot of the cross until January 6th, 1850. That morning a roaring blizzard forced Charles into the first church he could find, the P
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C. H. Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England’s best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. After a childhood in Essex, when he owed much to Christian parents and grandparents, he was converted in 1850 at the age of fifteen. He was then assisting at a school in Cambridge and it was in these Cambridge years that he came to Baptist principles and was called to the Baptist pastorate in the near-by village of Waterbeach. From there he moved to New Park Street, London in 1854 at the age of nineteen.
Roughly speaking, Spurgeon’s public work can be divided up into four decades. Through the 1850s he was ‘The Youthful Prodigy’ who seemed to have stepped full-grown into the pulpit. At the age of twenty the largest halls in London were filled to hear him; at twenty-one the newspapers spoke of him as ‘incomparably the most popular preacher of the day’; when he was twenty-three, 23,654 people heard him at a service in the Crystal Palace.