Spurgeon.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7198, 5 February 1892, Page 2

Spurgeon.

] Among all the great names which have _ been added to our obituary roll during the s last decade none will lire longer in the - memory of the world than that of Charleß g Haddon Spurgeon. The famous preacher is dead, but his words have reached every „ corner of the earth, and will sway th» 1 minds of men long after the present . generation of hearera and readers hat i passed away. Tens of thousands who . have listened to his fluent discourses, rolled • out in magnificent tones, without halting I or faltering, and tens of thousands more . who have read his sermons will love to f extol the man who was bold enough in less enlightened days than these to plsoe the 6 good of mankiud before the oreeds of the 1 ■ Church. Spurgeon will be remembered as one of the most remarkable men of the ? century. He knew exactly what he be* lieved, and he believed it with all hu» f heart. His simple faith, aided by a rare 1 power of lucid exposition and for cible illue- - tration, placed him bead and shoulders t above his contemporaries. He did not stop to dispute over questions of | doctrine. He sought to be a • man firat, a preaoher afterwards, and. a priest last. He made the enjoyment off [ life a Christian privilege and a Christian | duty, and he had neither doubts nor feats as to this -world or the next. The . cynical reader may smile at faith such aa . this; but Charleß Spurgeon lived and ; worked up to his faith, and now that he i» . dead even the cynic must admire the earnest confidence which accomplished so much.