Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-01
Mr.. STURGEON DEAD
The Great Diyine's Soul Gone
Up to God.
Death Relieves His Sufferings
at MentOne.
His End Was Calm and Peaceful as
Summers Dream.
London Papers Deplore His Taking on.
He Leaves a Void That Will BE
Hard to FILA Sketch of
His Life.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
MENToNE, France, Jan. 31.-Charles
Spurgeon died shortly after IL o'clock
tonight.
Mr.. Surgeons end was painless. He
remained unconscious to the last. His
wife, DR.. Fitzhenry and Mrs. Thorne
were present when he died.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-At all the services
held yesterday in the Metropolitan tab
ernacle, of which Mr.. Spurgeon was pas
tor, the auditorium was packed. Rev.
Pionson and others offered earnest pray
ers and read to the congregations tele-
graph c bulletins from Mentone.
The morning papers contain long
memoirs and obituary articles. The
Chronicle appeared with a mourning
border. 1t compares the dead pastor to
Luther. The Telegraph characterizes
him as great, fearless and faithful
minister, and adds: "He leaves a void
that will be filled with difficulty"
The body will be brought to England
for burial. Once or twice during his
last hours Spurgeon recovered con-
seriousness for few moments and recog-
nized his wife. His friends had been
confident that he would recover, be-
cause his last attack was milder than
the previous one, but gout reached his
head and congestion of the kidneys re-
turned. During all his moments when
conscious he constantly thought of his
wife and once or twice expressed him
self as anxious to send message to his
congregation.
lOharles Hadden Spurgeon was born
in Essex, June 10, 1884, was educated at
Colchester, Cambridge and elsewhere,
and became usher in a school at New
market. His relatives were nearly all
Independents, but he adopted Baptist
over by Robert Hall. at Cambridge, and
tian work. At Feversham, at the age
of 16, he delivered his first SER
mon, and shortly after accepted an
invitation to become pastor at Water
beach. He soon became we'll known
character; the chapel at Waterbeach
was filled, while crowds contented them
selves with listening from outside. His
fame reached London, and he was
offered and accepted pastorate in the
metropolis. Mr.. Spurgeon first preached
before a London congregation In 1858,
with 80 much success that
ere two years had elapsed it
was considered necessary to enlarge
the Park street church building. where
he held lforth. The enlargement OF the
chapel, however, proved insufficient, and
his hearers multiplied with such rapidi-
ty, that it became expedient to enlarge
the Surrey music hall. A lamentable
accident occurred within its walls in
1856, and Mr.. Surgeons followers de-
termined to build a suitable edifice for
their services. The Metropolitan
tabernacle was opened in 1861,
and was always full to overhowing.
Mr.. Spurgeon published sermon every
week, beginning in 1855, till the close of
his active pulpit life, which was but a
short time ago. He published num-
Der OF other works. among them The
treasury of David, John Plowman, etc.,
all of which have wide calculations.
Many charities and missionary organiz-
ations were built up under Mr.. Spur
geon's patronage, all of them being mag
nifcent in their scope. In 1879 he re-
10000, and on attaining his tiftieth year
another sum of $4,000 was presented.
The whole of these sums he dis
tributed in charity. His last illness
dates back about six months,
his life several times being despaired
of. A few months ago he had SO far
recovered as to be able to journey to the
south of France, where he seemed to be
convalescing, until within the past few
days, when his malady again took a
serious turn, and terminated fatally, as
related in the foregoing dispatches.
One eccentricity of Mr.. Spurgeon was
that he never allowed any one to give
him the title of reverend" To his
friends and congregation and the world
at large he was known as plain Mr..
Spurgeon.]