The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-14 00:00:00

George 111. as a giant, holding a pigmy Napol'eol---",:/;•4\ -,A7t3A
thi• palm of hi= ba,(l. - •
The lecture, whicb meetly of a light antleVayfulf
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character, free from that severity by which the Drat ‘ - A
were characteri,ed, wr,s hr.inght to a c'•nalusion ''l
startling solemnity by almost eloquent prose lyric (ssfrokieW Ailv,./14r
call the passage by no ether nary.:)—uttered with refer-
ence to the madness of George 111. Mr. Thackeray &ill a S
treated the King, and even his Queen, with uniform
affection, and bad even consented to regard the most
arbitrary-acts of the monarch as thoroughly well-inten-
tioned, but it was clear that he was laughing at his fa-
vourite George through nearly the whole of the dir
course. The picture of utter bereavement which termi-
nated the whole gave to the hitherto comical fic,ure the
tragic dignity of a Lear or an CElipus, and Mr. TackeraY
bowed to his audience amid wondering applause.

THE REV. C. H. SPURGEON.

( Prom the Morning Advertiser of Monday )
Yester.'ay morning the Lord Mayor and Lady
Mayoress, several members of the late and present Par-
liament, Mr. Under-Sheriff Anderton, and various other
persons filling prominent positions, were among the vast
crowd who congregated together at; the Surrey Gardens
Hall to hear Mr. Spurgeon• Lord Palmerston was also
to have been one of the rev. gentleman's hearers, having
sent for tickets of admission for the purpose, but was
detained by gout at Broadlands. The magnificent hall
was densely filled iu every part, and many hundreds
only obtained standing room. The number of persons
ort sent could not have been less than from 7,000 to
8,000. The sight was imposing : there was something

even sul)lime in it.
The singing of a hymn was succeeded by a very elo-
quent, luminous, and impressive exposition of the nine-
tieth Psalm. Mr. Spurgeon next offered up an earnest
and beautiful prayer, atter which he gave out a few
lines of a hymn, and then announced hi-; text. His ser-
mon was characterised' throughout by intense fervour,
clear enunciations of divine truth, and impassioned ap-
peals to both the classes into which his c,lo-sal congre-
gation were divided—those who were believers, and
those who still remained in their unconverted state. Tls
vast audience hung with breathless attention, from be-
ginning to end, on the utterances which manifestly
gushed forth frii'm the deepest recesses of the youthful
preacher's heart. Scarcely even ac. ugh was beard,
while it was evident he carrie.l the immense throng
;vith irresistible force along with him. As M►lton

says, he wielded " them at: will," so far as the mere
assent of their understandings and the concurrence
of their feelings were concerned. To carry the heart
captive in spiritual things is an achievement which,
as has been often said, is not to be accomplished by the
highest order of eloquence which ever electrified

the ;,uman ear. No; nor would the eloquence of the
loftiest angel accomplish the great work, if unaccom-
panied by Divine power. But it is gratifying to know
that such preaching as Mr. Spurgeon'e—so faithful, so
scriptural, so earnest, so able—never can fail of success,
because to all such preaching, the promise of a blessing
from above is unconditionally annexed. Hence we are
not surprised to learn that great numbers of conversions
are brought under his notice every week ; white it is
probable that far greater numbers of those who have been
saved by his instrumentality will remain unknown to him
until that day when the light of another world shall dis-
pel the darkness of this. Pcrhaps no one fact could
furnish a more conclusive, or more striking proof of the
rems.rkable results which accompany the ministrations of
this extraordinary young man than the circumstance
that front 1,500 to 2,000 pers'mns meet, every Monday
evening, in New Park-street Chapel, for the purpose of
making special prayer on his behalf,—a circumstance
which we believe to have no parallel in the history of
prayer meetings.
The singing-on each occasion produced a profound
effect on the mind, but that of the Doxology at the close
of the service--

" Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise him all creatures here below;
Praise him above, ye heavenly host ;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,"
had something so unlike anything ever before heard,
owing to the union of so many thousands of voices, that
those who were present wilt never forget the effect it
produced upon their feelings. It is nu flight of fancy to
suppose that the swelling volumes of melody which re-
sounded through the immense building, ascended far
higher than its roof—rose upwards and upwards until
they broke on the delighted ears of "all that dwell
above the skies."

Mr. Spurgeon has now, we are gratified to say, entirely
got rid of those minor defects of matter and manner
which, two years ago or more, we pointed out, in the
spirit of sincere friendship, in the columns of the Morn-
ing Advertiser. The most fastidious taste, the most
cultivated intellect, could not yesterday morning have
detected a single thing which it could have wished to be
other wise.

But we have now another word of counsel, of a differ-
ent kind, to address to this wonderful preacher. We are
teoh7is,o2o2odoyreaBr,o-ooof
afraid that he is over-exerting himself. He is going
through an amount of labour to which, we fear, be will
soon find his physical strength unequal. Only imagine a
yroobuunsgt man
—e,he
reisacTilnYgi s,ovaenrd-
exerting himself so as to make his voice beard by them
all, every Sab,ath morning ; then preaching again in
persons, r nots
n
the evening to as many thou-ands as can be wedged
into his own chapel ; and, after having done this on the
Sunday, preaching every day in the week besides,—two
of those days, Tuesday and Thursday, being devoted to
pulpit or cpe -air ministrations in the country, some-
times from 100 to 200 miles from London,-1.-tany one,
we repeat, only try to imagine what must be the wear
and tear of such labours as these--made all the more
exhausting from the terrible earnestness which be throws
into them—and then say whether, humanly speaking,
it be probable that his physical strength can long with-
stand the pressure to which it is subjected.
We know that the proclamation of the Gospel message
is, to Mr. Spurgeon, a delightful duty—a labour of live
of the highest order; but still there are limits, con-
stituted as man's nature is, to the amount, of effort of
which it is capable. We wish we could impress upon
him that he can be made the means of a much greater
measure of spiritual usefulness by a prolonged life, with
a sornewhat diminished amount of labour, than if he
were to go on as he is doing, and be, in consequence,
speedily laid aside from his pulpit ministrations. Such
a life as his is invaluable. He has manifestly been
raised up to do a great work ; he is doing a great work
—one which has had no parallel in this country for a
hundred years. We have had no such preacher since
the days of George Whitfield, who died about a century
ago ; and therefore we trust that those of Mr. Spur-
geon's friends whose advice he is most disposed to listen
to, will repeat and enforce the counsels which we have
thus, out of the sincerest regard, addressed to him.