When he recommended that his students should adapt their pulpit style to their audiences, he told them, paradoxically, to go up to the level of a poor man but down to the level of an educated person.99 Spurgeon professed a version of egalitarianism that made him seem the champion of the common man. His reputation became colossal. Some journals outside his own country initially picked up the condemnation of his irreverence in England. Noting reports that Spurgeon had preached about spending thousands