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A great tabernacle was once built for a great preacher. Such were Charles Spurgeon’s preaching gifts that London’s six-thousand-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle was built in 1861 just to accommodate his followers. He continued to fill the pews until his death thirty years later. Rejecting his father’s Congregationalism, sixteen-year-old Charles first took a Baptist pastorate near Cambridge,...

All through his preaching, Spurgeon related the gospel of Christ to questions of conduct. His standard was Christlikeness. It was the one test of reality. In this, his John Bullism was very assertive. There were no halftones. The saved people lived the saved life. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” His foundations were grim but stern and enduring, putting all the weight on the character and purpose of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Christian World in February 1892 stated: Any attempt to estimate