Roadbuilding for Revival Series
Spurgeon & Revival
Only a Revived Church Brings Glory to God
by Robert H. Lescelius
New softcover booklet.
28 pages, 2001 edition, ISBN 1566321077, Revival Literature Publishers
Excerpt from first page
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers," shines as a bright luminary in the sky of Church History. Certainly the word revival must come to mind as we consider such a life and labor owned by God with such phenomenal success. Without doubt his success was the fruit of revival, and his doctrine, passion, and practice were inseparable from the biblical truths of spiritual renewal.
Here are the simple facts of history in a nutshell. A young 19-year-old becomes the pastor of a 200-year-old church in the River Flood district—"the gloomy, narrow streets of a dingy repellent section of London." The New Park Street Church had a membership of 232, but a congregation of eighty heard the young C. H. Spurgeon for the first time on Sunday morning, December 18, 1853. The church extended him a call, which he accepted on April 28, 1854, and within ten months the congregation, growing rapidly, moved to Exeter Hall, while the church building was expanded to accommodate the crowds.
Upon returning to the church location in May the renovation was already found inadequate, and the church was finally forced in June, 1856, to return to Exeter Hall for Sunday evening services. Soon Exeter Hall was too small, and a monumental move was made to the Surrey Gardens Music Hall, where for three years Spurgeon preached to 9,000 to 10,000 people every Sunday.
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