THE LATE C. H. SPURGEON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1892, Page 5

THE LATE C. H. SPURGEON.

>•■■■■ m . SYMPATHY FROM . THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.

At the Presbyterian Assembly to-day the Rev. J. Tredwell said he would like to call attention to the recent and lamented death of the late C. H. Spurgeon, of London. It was, he said, unnecessary to attempt any eulogy of Mr Spurgeon. Mr Spurgeon was theheadoftheßaptistChurchandheheldthe peculiar tenets of thab body with great tenaciby, bub on all the broader .principles coming within the scope of known as Calvinism, he was at one with a very large section of Christ's church. Mr Spurgeon became a great power for eood bhroughoub the world. He belonged really nob to the Baptist body, bub to the whole Christian Church, and his loss was felt with great sorrow by the whole Presbyterian Church. Hβ proposed the following motion :—" That a committee consisting of the Revs. Gillies, Doull, Monro, Tredwell, and Messrs Gavin and Lennox (elders), be appointed a committee to draw up a minute, expressive of the esteem and affection entertained by the Assembly for the late Charles Haddoa Spurgeon, and of their sense of the great loss which, through his removal, has befallen the Church of Christ universal; the minute, when drawn up, to be transmitted to the family of Mr Spurgeon and to bid bereaved congregation." Rev, Norrie seconded the motion. Hβ. thought ib desirable that such an expression should go forth from the Assembly. He bore testimony to the great value of Mr Spurgeon'a work, especially in country districts.

The Rev. Moderator expressed deep sym« pathy with the object of the motion. Aβ a youth and student, and as, a young minister of the Free Church of Scotland, he came to cherish the highest and warmest regard for Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and had listened to him with the greatest interesb and with much profit. One of the first meetings of the • Presbyterian Assembly which he attended was addressed by Mr Spurgeon, who wan received as warmly aa any minister of the Presbyterian Church, and who expressed the warmest sympathy with the Presbyterian Church. - The motion was carried unanimously.