Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . he dead and the dying, and louder than the wails of misery from the maimed andsuffering, resounded from the mouth of Spurgeon in the Music Hall of the SurreyGardens. Many other utterances were equally cruel and libellous. A gentleman appliedto the magistrate at Lambeth, seeking an investigation by his worship into thecircumstances connected with the catastrophe, and into the necessity for a license touse the Music Hall as a place of worship. He was not aware that, on the prev
Autobiography of Charles HSpurgeon compiled from his diary, letters and records by his wife and his private secretary . he dead and the dying, and louder than the wails of misery from the maimed andsuffering, resounded from the mouth of Spurgeon in the Music Hall of the SurreyGardens. Many other utterances were equally cruel and libellous. A gentleman appliedto the magistrate at Lambeth, seeking an investigation by his worship into thecircumstances connected with the catastrophe, and into the necessity for a license touse the Music Hall as a place of worship. He was not aware that, on the previousSaturday, the building had been licensed as a place for Dissenting worship. He H. SPURGEON S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 209 Stated that persons collecting money in an unlicensed place were liable to be treatedas rogues and vagabonds ; and went on to add that a further question might arise,as to whether the parties causing large congregations to assemble were not liableto a still graver charge. This liberal-minded person represented the mind of aconsiderable section whose thoughts of the preacher were bitterness itself The. THE NEW CONDUCTOR. magistrate, however, assured the applicant that the law permitted public buildings tobe used as places of worship for temporary purposes. The following article appeared in The Saturday Review, October 25, 1856 :— Mr. Spurgeon at the Surrey Gardens. If it be true, as has been said, that notables represent, rather than create,public opinion, Mr. Spurgeon and his doings are worth a more serious considerationthan their intrinsic value would justify. The manners of an age or people do not C. H. SPURGEON S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. follow Its literature,—they produce it. Crebillon or Shaftesbury did not form thetaste or principles of their contemporaries ;—Voltaire did not so much educate asembody his times ;—and, in like manner, Mr. Spurgeon does not create the state offeeling-to which he owes his popularity. It is a melancholy reflection that such a per-s
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