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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,...

Spurgeon made three charges: 1) that the plenary inspiration of the scriptures was denied and thus the authority of the Bible was undermined, 2) that the vicarious nature of the death of Christ was not preached, and, therefore, the way of salvation was not made known, and 3) that the doctrine of future punishment had given place to the idea of universal restoration and had weakened the motives for godly living. SPURGEON WAS VERY GENIAL AND HAPPY. In 1887, he was still on friendly terms with the Baptist