Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-27

c. H STURGEON.
it became expedient to engage the Sur
rey Music Hall, and Mr.. Surgeons fol-
lowers determined to build suitable
edifice for their services. The Metro
politan Tabernacle was accordingly built
and opened in 1861.
MI. Sturgeon has published a sermon
weekly since the first week Of 1855, and
at the end Of 1880 the series-inclusiye
of double numbors-had reached No.
212O The weekly circulation of these
sermons is about twenty tive thousand.
Mr.. Sturgeon has also published num-
Der of other works, the chief of which
is "rhe Treasury Of David; or, an Ex-
position of the Psalms" in seven vol
umos
The Storkwcll Orphanage, founded by
him in 1857, has since been enlarged to
accommodate $50 boys and as many girls,
and down to 1889 more than 1,400 chill
dren had been received. The Pastors
College, founded by him in 1856, has ed
Gcated over 500 men, Of whom, in 1889,
673 were still engaged as pastors, mis-
sionaries evangelists or in some de-
partment of Christian work. The Net
ropolitan Colportage Association has
about seventy or eighty agents occupy
ing districts in different parts of the
country who, in addition to their other
service, sell pure literature in the course
of a year to the amount of so, 600. A
"book fund.-" carried on in Mr.. Spur
geon's house and superintended by Mrs.
Spurgeon, has in ten years supplied in
digent ministers of VarOu denOmina-
tions, free of cost, with over one humid
dred and fifteen thousand volumes.
Mr.. Sturgeon carries on a society for
evangelists at home, and another for mis-
sion work in North Africa. His church has
about thirty mission halls and schools
affiliated with it. In 1879 he received q
silver wedding testimonial of over
E6, 90, and in 1884, on attaining his 5Oth
year, another sum of about 95, OO0 was
presented These funds were almost
entirely distributed in charity, IS, 900
having been devoted to the endowment
of the tabernacle almshouses. In 1887
Mr.. Spurgeon withdrew from the Bap-
fist Union. He had been patient suf
fcre1 for many years from complica-
ton of diseases, chief of which was
f1uenza in it's worst form. He lived near
Beulah Hill, Upper Norwood, pretty
suburb of London.
Mr. Spurgeon was a busy man, en-
ploying five stenographers and keeping
them all going. With the exception of
Mr. Gladstone, he received the largest
mail of any man in the three Kingdoms.
A great many of his letters from sailors,
from soldiers, from poor fellows whom
he had managed to help out of the
gutter, were simply addressed Sturgeon,
England To these he replied cheer
fully and was always ready to give ad-
vice. Nor was this all. He gave freely
of his money. In fact, he was poor
man. If it had not been for the kind
ness of his congregation, he would have
been penniIess A few years ago
they purchased house for him,
the house at Norwood, the south
ern ridge of the wooded heights of
Sydenham. Upon the occasion of the
twenty-tifth anniversary of his pastorate
of the church his congregation pre-
sented him with large purse of money
as token of it's esteem. 1t was in
tended that he should pay off the mort
gage on his house, and take the remain
der for a holiday He did nothing of
the kind; he divided the large sum
equally between the pastors college and
the orphanage. If it had not been for
the prudence of some of his friends who
luSiSUGu bHdU III WAS HIS uuUy W hCCp Ills
house free, he would have lived in hired
apartments. His charity was not in
discriminate His money was only given
30 those who deserved it.
He declined as many as a score of in
vitations to lecture throughout Europe
and America at fabulous prices, because,
as he explained, he was NOS lecturer,
and he didn't want the money, and he
preferred to work in his own Way among
his own people in London. When an
American lecture agency offered him
recently $1,000 for every lecture and to
pay all the expenses of himself and his
wife and secretary from London to
America on great lecture tour, and
held out the tempting offer that he
could make $4,000, Mr.. Spurgeon de-
clined it. He said he could do better.
He would stay in London and try to save
fifty sous