Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — TABERNACLE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

TABERNACLE BURNED.

Baptist Cbapcl Made Famous by SpurS»on, England’* (beat Preacher, I* Destroyed. London, April 21.—Spurgeon’s tabernacle was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. [The Baptist chapel, known as Spurgeon’s tabernacle, or the Metropolitan tabernacle, to give Its proper name, wa* situated at Newington Butts, close to the Elephant and Castle, In the southern part of London, known as the Surrey side of the river Thames. It was opened In 1861, and was made famous by Rev. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who died In 1852. The tabernacle had about 80 mission halls and schools, in fiddltlon to almshouses connected with It. lev. Thoma* Spurgeon, brother of the distinguished divine, I* the pastor of the Metropolitan tabernacle, having occupied that position since IfltM.)