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During his time as pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon was an outspoken opponent of [[Socialist]] doctrines.

During his time as pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Spurgeon was an outspoken opponent of [[Socialist]] doctrines.

==Early Life==

==Early life==

He was born in 1834 in Kelvedon, [[Essex]] of [[Netherlands|Dutch]] parents. Spurgeon was converted in a [[Methodist]] chapel, but became a member of a [[Baptist]] church in 1850. An eloquent speaker and a hard worker, he grew into a young preacher. His first sermon was at the age of sixteen, and he pastored a church in Waterbeach, [[Cambridgeshire]] by the age of only twenty.

He was born in 1834 in Kelvedon, [[Essex]] of [[Netherlands|Dutch]] parents. Spurgeon was converted in a [[Methodist]] chapel, but became a member of a [[Baptist]] church in 1850. An eloquent speaker and a hard worker, he grew into a young preacher. His first sermon was at the age of sixteen, and he pastored a church in Waterbeach, [[Cambridgeshire]] by the age of only twenty.

===Spurgeon on Socialism===

===Spurgeon on Socialism===

* "I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309-310}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X30PAAAAIAAJ&q=%22if+the+wanderers+are+to+be+brought+in%22&dq=%22if+the+wanderers+are+to+be+brought+in%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI5OXCs7yayAIV0FqICh0FdQq3|title=The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons, Parts 405-416|date=1886}}</ref>  - [[One Lost Sheep]], April 28, 1889

* "I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OOGoBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT309|title=The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120|date=2015|pages=309–310}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X30PAAAAIAAJ&q=%22if+the+wanderers+are+to+be+brought+in%22&dq=%22if+the+wanderers+are+to+be+brought+in%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI5OXCs7yayAIV0FqICh0FdQq3|title=The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons, Parts 405-416|date=1886}}</ref>  - [[One Lost Sheep]], April 28, 1889

* "Some of us may have passed away, but you who are younger may live to see modern thought obtain supremacy over human minds: German rationalism which has ripened into Socialism may yet pollute the mass of mankind and lead them to overturn the foundations of society." - [[The Headstone of the Corner]], June 23rd, 1878

* "Some of us may have passed away, but you who are younger may live to see modern thought obtain supremacy over human minds: German rationalism which has ripened into Socialism may yet pollute the mass of mankind and lead them to overturn the foundations of society." - [[The Headstone of the Corner]], June 23, 1878

* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.

* "Knock at no door which thou wouldst not have opened.

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