“MANGLING DONE HERE.”

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3072, 19 June 1923, Page 3

“MANGLING DONE HERE.”

Once the Rev. W. J. Fullerton, Spurgeon's biographer and associate for many years, went with him to Scotland, and preached at Kilmun. Next day Spurgeon pointed out the house adjoining the church, with a notice exhibited, “Mangling done here,” and insisted that that was where he had preached. Deacons seeking ministers for their churches often applied to Mr. Spurgeon. One asked him to send a student who could “fill the chapel,” and got an answer saying that Mr. Spurgeon had not one big enough, but he thought he could send one who might fill the pulpit. A reply came that that was really what they wanted, and a minister was accordingly sent. It was Mr. Whale.