Spurgeon said that “Metaphors often convey to the mind truth which otherwise would not have reached understanding. ... even if they be not understood at first, they excite thought.”
The Spurgeon Birthday BookThe Spurgeon Birthday Book was organized by Spurgeon himself to lay before his readers a challenging yet insightful and often encouraging word. Read one each day or read all of them in an afternoon. Either way, Birthday BookBirthday Book will help you grow in your walk with Christ.
Note from the publisher: select words and phrases have been updated to provide a more modern reading experience.
He was converted to Christ at the age of 16 and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was 21. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people. He withdrew from every movement among English Baptists which tended to criticize the Authorized Version 1611 in any way.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions.
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