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It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ’s blood and merit.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) Born in Kelvedon, Essex, England.

He preached his first sermon in 1851 at age sixteen, just a year after his conversion to Christianity.  In 1852 he was called to pastor of the small Baptist church at Waterbeach, Cambridgeshire, and in 1854, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London’s famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark (formerly pastored by the strict Baptist theologian John Gill).  

The congregation quickly outgrew their building.  Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000 – all in the days before electronic amplification. At 22 Spurgeon was the most popular preacher of the day.

In 1861, the congregation moved the newly constructed purpose-built Metropolitan Tabernacle at Elephant and Castle, seating five thousand people with standing room for another thousand.

In 1856, Spurgeon married Susannah, daughter of Robert Thompson of Falcon Square, London, by whom he had twin sons, Charles and Thomas.  He suffered ill health towards the end of his life, suffering from a combination of rheumatism, gout, and Bright’s disease, often recuperating at Mentone, near Nice, France, where he died in 1892.

C.H. Spurgeon Quotes 
A  sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Of two evils, choose neither. 

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Works by C.H. Spurgeon

Morning and Evening
The Treasury of David
Morning by Morning
Strengthen My Spirit
Lectures to My Students
Christ in the Old Testament
The Suffering of Man and the Sovereignty of God