Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was England's most prominent preacher during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Converted at sixteen, he became pastor of London's New Park Street Church at just twenty years old in 1854, four years after his conversion.
The congregation rapidly expanded, relocating first to Exeter Hall, then Surrey Music Hall, where Spurgeon regularly preached to audiences exceeding 10,000 people without electronic amplification.
In 1861, the church moved permanently to the newly built Metropolitan Tabernacle.
His pastoral college, established in 1856, trained ministry students through weekly lectures that became this book.
