“Our gifts are not to be measured by the amount we contribute, but by the surplus kept in our own hands. The two mites of the widow were in Christ’s eyes worth more than all the other money cast into the treasury; for ‘she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living’ ” (Mar 12:44; Luk 21:4).–1891, Sermon 2234”
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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.