Charles
Haddon Spurgeon
was born in Kelvedon, Essex in 1834. At the age of twenty Spurgeon
became a Baptist pastor at the New Park
Street Chapel in London. Spurgeon was such
an impressive preacher that the chapel was unable to accommodate all
those who wanted to hear him. It was therefore decided to build him
a much larger chapel and in 1859 work began on the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
When it was finished in 1861 it provided seating for 6,000 people.
Spurgeon also became known to a wider audience after
the publication of his book John
Ploughman's Talk
in 1869.
In 1887 Spurgeon left the Baptist Union
because no action was taken against people in the church charged with
fundamental errors. Charles
Haddon Spurgeon died in 1892.
Window-Mender in Greenwich.
Commisioned by Charles Spurgeon in 1885
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