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This volume was one of the first of the numerous biographies of Charles Spurgeon to appear, and was written by James T. Allen the year of Spurgeon’s death. It recounts Spurgeon’s childhood years, his ministry, his rise to fame throughout the world, and the later years of his life.

It was such a greatness that was so strikingly manifested and beautifully set forth in the busy life-work of him who forms the subject of this brief sketch. No man can occupy a prominent position for forty years, with the full blaze of public scrutiny directed on him and his work, and yet stand the test, and approve himself “a workman that needeth not to be ashamed;” a man of mighty power and religious influence over his fellows, without being in its highest sense, and Divinest meaning, endowed with
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