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about half done ;) blast all stay out of my way!
==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.
==Pastor==
The Spirit of God worked strongly through him; his congregation grew till the building could not accomadate them all. His oratorical gifts no doubt helped, but it was the truth of the [[Gospel]] that gave his words real power. The church had gone from empty to packed within months. People of every class and type gathered to hear.
On 19 Oct. 1856 a malicious alarm of fire raised while Spurgeon was preaching at the Surrey Gardens music-hall led to a panic which caused the death of seven persons and the injury of many others; but the preacher's position was not endangered. At twenty-two Spurgeon was the most popular preacher of the day.[http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biospurgeon.html]
==Newington Causeway==
===Quotes===
===Quotes===
When asked what he thought should be done when [[lay people]] fell asleep in church, he replied, "Someone should wake up the preacher."
When asked what he thought should be done when [[lay people]] fell asleep in church, he replied, "Someone should wake up the preacher."