REV. C. H. SPURGEON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1892, Page 5

REV. C. H. SPURGEON.

REMARKS BY RABBI GOLDSTEIN

At this morning's service ab the Jewish Synagogne, Rabbi Goldstein spoke at length and in warm terms on the life and work of the late Mr C. H. Spurgeon. He remarked that by this death the philanthropic as well as the religious world had sustained a deep loss. Tlie interest and prominent parb taken by Mr Spurgeon in the meeting at the Mansion House for the relief of the Russian Jews was also touched upon. Mr Goldstein remarked that it spoke volumes for the increasing breadth of feeling in England and the widening of opinion during the past decade that, from tho Queen downwards, messages of sorrow had been sent for the demise of a dissenting minister, as a fßw days ago they had been sent for a Roman Catholic minister. In these days of cultivated opinion ib was a man's works which spoke bo thß public, not his religion. These kindly and sympathetic allusions to the lives and losses, of great men belonging to a different religion to thoinselves, need not to be warmly welcomed and commended. Every broadminded man must teel that such generous conduct cannot fail to advance humanity and do an immense amount of good.