Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-08-07
EFFECT OF SURGEONS PREACHING.

No preacher OF the Gospel at the present day, has
beep more reved and abused than the Rev. &. IL.
Spurgeop; and yet crowds follow him; many of whom
80, doubtless, like the Ahsnlans 70 the Apostle Paul.
10 hear "what this bsbbler would say" But not.
wi:bstendng the opposition he has met with, it ap-
pears that his preaching is producing powerful Il.
feet 'ihe higher clgsses-Lords and Commons;
and il has stirred up the phlegmatic !eRpera.
melt Of the PuseyIes, and se them at work: for the
fashion Ut turning Roman Catholic s going out among
the ars,ocracy, and the stream il setting in towards
Spurgeonisn. II We compare the effect Of Mr.. Spur
geon's preaching with that of Paure, shall iud a
striking similarity between them.
We copy the following extract from London let
ter from the Christian Inteigeucer, the Dutch Re.
formed paper, OF New York;
ENGLAND, June 5th, 1857.
Those who asserted that the Rev. G. II. Spurgeon
is nau Of only ordinary ability, and could command
influence only among the uEeducsted masses, have
surely DOW evidence enough that they have been
being free from any pedaniic or ultra refined prrlu'
dices, were the lrstn dhoover and own the e1trao.
binary pul2i, power OF Mr.. Spurgeon.
Curiosity at length led many Of the higher classes
aud people of EDUCATION to hear and perhaps to rd-
cue, but they too were brought under his SPELL and
now he is as popular among the great among the
poor. Members of Psriament-L"rds rs well as
Commemorative been Oh every Sabbath, present III
scores; and aot of Mi. tho Church of England itself
has been samed by this popularity aud by the Times
newspaper, into extraordinary action.
Finding that this remarkable, and 10 their view,
uneducated unlicensed. aud unconsecrated preacher
under 10 auspices but the Bible, and his own zeal
aud talents, actually placing the Church in dan.
ger, the Bishops and other 1igutares have entered
into continuation for the purpose Of preaching him
down or throwing him into tbs shade. They have
opemed proceedings in Exeter Hail, in which place,
OH Sunday night wnek the Bishop of Carlisle preach
ed TO 30GD people, aud last Sunday night the Rev. w.
Rsdnan preached, III tbs same unconsecrated place,
to a still larger crowd.
This lie perfectly right, and jus, what they ought to
do, not for the purpose OF putting down Mr.. Spur.
g.un, but for cooperating with him in doing good.
But what now followsi Why the sensitive and ten
Ger conscieuces Of members VI the Church OF Eng
land have been awfully shocked by such irregular
proceedings Exeter Hall is neither licensed nor con-
secraied and the Puseyite Lord Dungannon, in his
pincs in the House of Peers made sad complaint,
aud preferred heavy charge against the Bishops for
preaching in such place. However, The Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Bishop Of London. and kinnaird
defended the Innovation and the Peers cheered them
in the defruce.
We hops the Bishop will go on in this good work.
We never heard of the Great Founder of Christian.
ity ur his Apostles make any objection ~ preaching
IN places which were not cUnsecrated, at least III the
sense referred to by Lord Dungannon. Meantime
MIR. SpurgeUn is daily increasing in popularity. Last
Sabbath about seveny members of Parliament aud
the Duchess and other higb.horn ladies wthon. num-
bar were in attendance. Your Mrs. Harriet Is. Stowe
was also present, having just returned from Paris,
on her way home.
Ii is very manifest that the fashion Of turning Ro
man Catholic ia going out among the aristocracy.-
The stream ia setting in towards Spurseonism, and it
Is said the Duchess Of Sutherland Is on the eve OF
uniting herself with that Cause under Mr. Spurgeons
lesdership. She aud the Duchess Of Argyle have
been in frequent attendance at his ministraions.--
ca. Sec.