Men will be damned with good works as well as without them, if they make them their confidence.
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| Birth: | 19th June, 1834 |
| Death: | 31st January, 1892 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Priest |
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Born in Kelvedon, Essex, Spurgeon's conversion to Christianity came on 6 January 1850, at age 16. Later that year on 4 April 1850, he was admitted to the church at Newmarket. His baptism followed on 3 May in the river Lark, at Isleham. Later that same year he moved to Cambridge, where he later became a Sunday school teacher. He preached his first sermon in the winter of 1850–51 in a cottage at Teversham while filling in for a friend. From the beginning of his ministry his style and ability were considered to be far above average. In the same year, he was installed as pastor of the small Baptist church at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, where he published his first literary work, a Gospel tract written in 1853.
In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London's famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark. This was the largest Baptist congregation in London at the time, although it had dwindled in numbers for several years. Within a few months of Spurgeon's arrival at Park Street, his ability as a preacher made him famous. The following year the first of his sermons in the "New Park Street Pulpit" was published. Spurgeon's sermons were published in printed form every week and had a high circulation. By the time of his death in 1892, he had preached nearly 3,600 sermons and published 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations and devotions.
He often recuperated at Menton, near Nice, France, where he eventually died on 31 January 1892..
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