SPURGEON is emphatically of the earth, earthy. This we say, not as anything against him intellectually or spiritually, but simply as indicating the material ballast, which in this man is grosser ...

Spurgeon, we suppose, would be classed among Calvinists, but he is not merely that. Without any force, depth, amplitude, or originality of thought, he has considerable force and originality of nature.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon was called “the prince of preachers.” Since he began his ministry at London’s New Park Street Chapel in 1855, his sermons have made their mark on thousands of lives.