DEATH OF REV. THOS. SPURGEON

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9126, 23 October 1917, Page 5

DEATH OF REV. THOS. SPURGEON

LONDON, Oct. 22

The: A deathi»iß announced of ,'ftte Rev. Tbomaiii "Sptirgeon. BSe^ had been in failing health for • some "time, - ami !'had, a seizure some weeks ago. " ■

(The Rev. Thomas Spurgeoh, President of the Pastors' College,'..ami of the Sltockwell Orphanage, was:kpxri in London in 1856. ,-Be was ethn^t-ed at the Pastors' College, Metropolitan Tabernacle, Be/visited Australia in 1877, and again m*18?9., In J^S) h^ accepted tho pastorate of tlw Baptist Church, Auckland, New Zoal-and. He was Evangelist of the Now Z<ia.laml Baptist Union from 1889 to 1893, when he returned, to England,,,and commenced his ministry ' at the Metropofetjin . Taborna< i'kj. He resigned tlus position in 1908 owing to iB-health. The late Rev. Mr Spurgeon'a wife was the eldest daughter of Mr Gideon Rutheifoid, of Dunedm.)