Life and labors of Charles HSpurgeon: the faithful preacher, the devoted pastor, the noble philanthropist, the beloved college president, and the voluminous writer, author, etc., etc. . dollars should be voted to themwhen their church was formed and their meeting-house promise was redeemed, and Mr, Rippon took part in theordination service of the first minister. This was well done. Sucha course was sure to secure the blessing of God. The church inDean Street thus became another offshoot from the parent stem,and with varying conditions it remains to this day as the churchin Trinity
Life and labors of Charles HSpurgeon: the faithful preacher, the devoted pastor, the noble philanthropist, the beloved college president, and the voluminous writer, author, etc., etc. . dollars should be voted to themwhen their church was formed and their meeting-house promise was redeemed, and Mr, Rippon took part in theordination service of the first minister. This was well done. Sucha course was sure to secure the blessing of God. The church inDean Street thus became another offshoot from the parent stem,and with varying conditions it remains to this day as the churchin Trinity Street, Borough. He will be best known as having prepared the first really goodselection of hymns for dissenting congregations. Although a Bap-tist collection, it was extensively used with Dr. Wattss among bothclasses of Congregationalists. This work was an estate to itsauthor, and he is said to have been more than sufficiently eagerto push its sale. One thing we know, his presents of nicely boundcopies must have been pretty frequent, for we have seen severalgreatly prized by their aged owners, who have showed them to us,with the remark, The dear old Doctor gave me that Dr. John Rippon in his Youth. THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE. 139 The happy eccentricity of the Doctors character may be illus-trated by a little incident in connection with royalty. He wasdeputed to read an address from the Dissenters to George III.,congratulating him upon recovery from sickness. The Doctorread on with his usual clear utterance till, coming to a passagein which there was special reference to the goodness of God, hepaused and said: Please your Majesty, we will read that again,and then proceeded with his usual cool dignity to repeat the sen-tence with emphasis. No other man in the deputation would havethought of doing such a thing, but from Rippon it came so natu-rally that no one censured him, or if they did it would have hadno effect upon Jiini. There are still some in the church who che
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