The Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon #272093

It is not easy in the compass of a single volume to give anything like a fair idea of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's life and work. Indeed his activities were so manifold, and the channels in which his energies were exerted were so numerous, that the biographer is bewildered by the very mass of material at his disposal. The great divine's connection with all the organisations and institutions that owed their inception and growth to his untiring efforts, was so intimate that the history of any one of them would be the history of a single phase of C. H. Spurgeon's life. Hence to give a full and clear idea of the preacher's organising ability alone, would require as many volumes as there are agencies connected with the Metropolitan Tabernacle. Then, his wonderful ministry in London, was so vast in its conception and results, that to tell it fully would need many volumes the size of this one, whilst the story of his preaching engagements away from London would fill another book. And so the story might be multiplied until a whole library were brought into existence, without the fear of the minute detail engendering dulness.<br><br>That Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a wonderful man, those with only a slight knowledge of his life will readily agree, but few who were not in close contact with him for many years, have any idea how wonderful he was.