New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-20
GREAT BRITAIN.
MR.. SURGEONS TABERNACLE.
From The London Daily yev,, Dee.

From The London Ddut NtVf Dec ..
A bazaar in aid of the funds for the erection OF
large tabernacle for Mr. Sturgeon, opened on tuesday
at the Surrey Music Hall. The hall w3s decorated
with fags and various specimens OF needieworhi w
elery and fancy articles were arranged upon sta on
the foor platform erected on the spot hitherI9
occupied by the orchestra upon which was Displayed
variety Of goods for sale under the superintendent
of Mrs. Spurgeon, and in all parts OF the oliahg
were 10 be seen Photographic portraits OF that
oscope At O'Clock Mr.. Sturgeon, according to the
programme, lectured in the refreshment ROOM ne
selected for his subject the pleasures that might De
enjoyed by Christian persons He recommended !lli'
ascecism should be avoided; but, at the snme time
he warned his hearers against those things whch
were called pleasures, but which the conscience told
were not pleasures that should be INDUCED IN by
Christian person. OF this class he insanced even
ing parties where persons met together IN WINE
kid gloves, stared at one another, aud talked non,
sense and declared that for his part he would
rather stop home than undergo the misery OF such
amusements. He believed that If some persons al
vertsed bottles of water most delectable drink
the draught would lsoon be considered great dell-
cacy, and that many things pleased merely because
they called pleasures. With regard To dahclng'
his opinion was that il most healthy eXercle'
and should be freely INDUCED in; but he Thought
males and females should dance apart, the ordinary
practice Of coupling the sexes IN the dance being pr"
ductive of uDholy thoughts. Games OF SKIN ne "a"
no objection to- but games Of chance could DE Sad 10
be productive of no beneficial result, and, a. IN the
case Of Messr. Palmer and Cooke had led TO ev con
sequences, which the countenance OF l"rd ieroy
could not counterac The rattle Of dice boxes always
reminded him of the casting of lots at the foot OF the
cross for the of the Savior and he did not
think il became any Christian TO touch them But II
was no giving advice on these matters Tor most
persons had made up their minds upon them ana 9hy
sought some authority to excuse that when their
consccnces told them not right. Religion, he
declared, was never intended to make our pleasures
LEES and he advised all to despise conveutionalISm IN
their endowment but to avoid those pleasures which
~ RefprriDO
To the object with which the meeting had taken place,
he thanked those who were in attendance for their
assistance, and stated that up to the present time
f5.C0 had been raised toward the erection ot the
Tabernacle the total cost of which would be t2oOoo
We take the following estimate of Mr.. Surgeons
ministry from The ANeRdHm's review OF the . New
Park-sireet Pulpit, as quoted in The Guardian of
last evening:
ain review of the New Park street Pulpit
Tie Athtadun arrives at the following estimate of
Spurgeonism in the Surrey Hall:
Religions have been, and are, fashion among us,
and az they have begun tomake literary appeals liter
ary tribunals have become bound to take some NO.
tce of their existence and pretensons. Like old
Rome London has teemed with missionaries, OF all
hues and extraciOns, from the pigtaed disciples oil
Taepngwang to the bearded adherents of Joe Smith.
"The most prominent figure among these mssiona-
res gentleman who has been too familiarity II not
profanely designated Birthstone, but whose proper
title and description is Mr.. {. II. Spurgeon. This
figure is worth moments study; aud the clrcun,'
stances of which it is the type and Illustration are
such a. might make the wise man pause ana the
proud man humble. Mr.. Sturgeon is not man of
letters At early age he was sent to al agrcultu-
raj college, where he appears TO have been forced into
early agricultural synax, and sprouted into an usher
or generally unlearned assistant, at Newmarket and
Cambridge. The seat Of mathematics inspired him
with desire not to learn, but to preach. Why
should he not1 There Jeremy Taylor had grown to
immorality-Robert Hall to q household word
through preaching There is Il Sturgeon
ht- mr.
ity, under genuine Spurgeon signature, only at GER
tain accredited shops; there Spurgeon tickets to
enable reprobate world comfortably to hear Itself
consigned to perdon, to be had at different and very
accommodating prices; there are Sturgeon prayers
that poor sinners permitted to buy cleapy; there
is Sprgeonic spiritual bread, kind of dipped sweet
Rcvalenta that undipped Christians may digest there
is Spurgeon almanac with Sturgeon texts and
enblens, according to which our yearly pilgrimage
through the Vale of Baca is accurately appOrtoncd
and divided into easy intervals; there are sixpenny
diamond lives, and Spurgcon hymn-books and books
of meditation, all with excellent portraits of Mr..
Spurgcon; and next week there will be Monster
Sturgeon Bazaar where everything that the repro
bate world want may be bought, and will be sold
for the benefit OF that gentleman. A remarkable
though unknown American poet, Mr. Walt. Whitman,
one of the roughs, Kosmos, has told us what he
can do:
81 celebrate myself aud what .:ans you ;a assume
loaf and lean a; aud utter my baTbsic gp over
the roofs Of maDkind.'
"Thc lines might stand for Mr.. Spurgeons motto.
We approach the cheerful hall-tlckets. tickets
is money taken at religious gate Yes, happily
for us; reprobates are admitted Tor shilling we as
cend into Mr.. Surgeons domain. The hall is half
full In the body, migrated from Park street, Is well
packed brigade of the chosen, who sit under Mr. Spur
rcon permanently, and can be depended on-a sub.
tania dense mass of hats and bonnets win here ana
tLere chds pretty face peering up wistiuly toward
the platform. See, the elect five shings are begin
ming TO roll and turn and spin, and deposit themselves
meriiy into the orchestral spaces What bright
and shining pile all good silver currency multiply
ipp now by dozens and twenes and soon by hundreds
And those arithmetcal men pacing up and down and
round the galleries. and anon pausing with un1uiet
eve Are they the counters or chesk-akers Have
the, shares in the undertaking Shilngs and half
crowns and crowns still flowing in round the pulpit Of
the wonderful man. And yet in these perturbed cur
rency times, those yeritable shings and crowns
or GO they only represent and are not what they seem
II il builiaiug to think, Mr.. SpurgeOn IL reported
70 have said how little is collected at the docrsony
go last Sunday. The balance in the bankers hands
is only IS Geo. and the sum required for sufficiently
large church, where l shall be glad TO welcome any
bishops, is f22,OCo Very Illuminating, indeed, MI
Spurge1 u; and with thousand conversions year,
and after eight sermons week, very hard. We look
round once morc-hats still on, the hall still filling
Where are the work -pcople-the toiling working
Door of the town-he old men never young, and the
children always od-the peaked and lean and hungry
trcesNthe stumbling figures of men women rag:
r,d and dragged that halt run, halt limp, from the
.oualid courts and flooded gronndh0ors where the
towns blood sleeps corIuptly we 10 not hnd
these in the Surrey Hall. Snug faces, and well.
,haven faces aud faces round and fat and Sinking
are here-the sel-same faces smiling from the self
same places as the audience of yesterdays comic
songs and brass band Dapper respectable dresses
enough everywhere 10 be seen-aces and dresses
that might be often 10 suburban teagardens VI
suburban dances, and suburban loyefeasts-faces
and dresses Of seemy young men aud young women
considering about connubial life prospectively, and
meanwhile not forsaking each others pleasant compa-
ny-smart bonnets, too, here and there noddng out
coouettishy from the rny of pigeOnole boxes. In
10 ilr.l. do