Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Oldest Congregationalist Minister. [ARTICLE]

Oldest Congregationalist Minister.

Recently, on his ninety-first birthday, Rev. John Spurgeon, father of the famous Charles Spurgeon, preacher, laid the foundation stone of the South Norwood Baptist church in England. He is a Congregatlonalist and probably is the oldest living minister of that denomination.