Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Spurgeon. [ARTICLE]

Spurgeon.

In the death of Spurgeon tHtP Wtrrld loses one of its greatest New York World. \ »°o»VI His was'a life spent in doing his rocord will be his mosths<Msjjjing monument.—Buffalo Enquired the oriThe death of the Spurgeon, is a loss to tk«**ldbitetian world. —Memphis In the death of Mr. SpurgKonnttts of the great thoologieal has gone out, and Londo|r®4«SW®[bas lost a friend.-St. Paul Bioto<y lTtht Less brilliant, aceorfl^o'^lßfflS ll " Judgment, we believe, tbaan,Beecher, his influence and popularity more widely extended.—Buffalo News. He possessed those "elements which are loosely grouped undJCliWß»m»of “ “popular preacher." These cohetet in frank, direct statement, rich imagery and eloquent delivery.—Boston Journal. His pulpit, however, will scarcely be filled. Like Beecher's pulpit, that will remain forever silent. Spurgeon will live in the institutions which he has built. —Detroit News. During his forty-odd years of service in the pulpit he was the earnest advocate for every work for the advancement of mankind apd the amelioration of tho masses.—Pittsburg Dispatch. His gospel, though it may not have been as liberal as many of our modern theologians would have had it, was popular because his force, his moral character and his evident good purpose made it so.—Columbus Post. The place of such a man is not easily to be filled. Some man will stand in his pulpit, but he will have no successor. The poor of England may well mourn his loss. Manning and then Spurgeon! These two will be missed.—Kansas City Times. He was the pillar In the “orthodox 1 * church and the commanding figure among the great army of English dissenters. His life was one of varied usefulness, and his death will be deplored in all Christian lands. Seminal.