Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . on, the destitution of the metropolis wasstill appalling. There were some cheering signs, and Baptists especially had goodcause to take heart, and gird themselves for the battle still before them. I quotewith pleasure the annexed tabular statement, and the note appended to it, givingglory to God that, during the greater part of the period referred to. He had enabledus to make some small discernible mark upon the mass of ignorance and sinaround us :— H. STURGEONS AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . on, the destitution of the metropolis wasstill appalling. There were some cheering signs, and Baptists especially had goodcause to take heart, and gird themselves for the battle still before them. I quotewith pleasure the annexed tabular statement, and the note appended to it, givingglory to God that, during the greater part of the period referred to. He had enabledus to make some small discernible mark upon the mass of ignorance and sinaround us :— H. STURGEONS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 129 Religious Denomination. 1865. Sittings. Increase SINCE 1851. Church of England 409,834 512,067 102,233 CongTegationalists 100,436 130,61 I 30,175 Baptists 54,234 87,559 33,325 Wesleyans ... 44,162 52,454 8,292 United Methodist Free Churches 13-422 8,564 Methodist New Connexion 984 6667 5,683 Primitive Methodists 9,230 5,850 Church of Scotland 3,886 5,116 1,230 English Presbyterians 10,065 12,952 2,887 United Presbyterians 4,860 580 Roman Catholics ... 18,230 1 31,100 12,870. GROUf OF BAPTIST MINISTERS (ABOUT 1856) ^ C^^ ^../^^ /Z^^. .^^^^ /> ^ / / ?,%^-y;>i~ ^-?/Mj^ ^-^-.:^ I ^o C. H. SPURGEON S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This table speaks for itself, and affords gratifying- proof of the Christianactivity of the principal Free Churches, though that satisfaction is somewhatdiminished by the increase being spread over fourteen years. The large stridetaken by the Baptists,^—under which designation every section of that denominationis included,—is unquestionably due, in the main, to the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon andhis missionary operations in various parts of the metropolis. Another table gave the statistics for our own district of Newington, whereDissent had been up to that time singularly strengthened ; the Baptists especially,durino- the fourteen years from 1851 to 1865, having increased far more than allthe other denominations put together,
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