The record-union., 1892-02-01
Special to the REcoRD-UNroS.


MENToNE, Jan. 31.-Charles Haddon
Spurgeon died shortly after IL o'clock to-
night. Mr.. Surgeons end was painless.
lie remained unconscious to the last.
His wife, DR.. Fitzhenry and Mrs. Thorne
were present when he died.
At all the services held yesterday in
the Metropolitan Tabernacle, of which
Spurgeon was pastor, the auditorium was
packed. Rev. Mr.. Pionson and others
offered earnest prayers and read the con-
gregations telegraphic bulletins from
Mentone. The morning papers contain
long memoirs and obituary articles. The
Chronicle appears with a mourning bor-
der. 1t compares the dead pastor to Mar
tin Luther. The Telegraph characterizes
him as great, fearless and faithful min
lister, 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 the last
hours Spurgeon recovered consciousness
Tor few moments, and recognized his
wife. His friends have been confident
that he would recover, because the last
attack was milder than The previous one,
but gout reached his head and congestion
OF the kidneys returned. During all the
moments when conscious he constantly
thought of his wife, and once or twice eX-
pressed himself as anxious to send
message TO his congregation.
LCharles Eaddon Spurgeon was born at
Keivedim, Essex, Eng, June 10 1894 Be
fore him, his father and grandfather were
preachers OF the Independent denomination
Charles was an usher at Newmarket at / 6
and subsequently at Cambridge. At the lat
ter place he joined the ''Lay Preachers Asso-
ciation,'' and while not vet 8 was made pas
tor OF small Baptist congregation at Water
beach. He was called to London i'll 1853, 10
the New Park-streeJ Baptist Church. His elo-
quence. his remarkably persuasive powers, his
personal magnetism his sincere deyOutnesS
ana his peculiar and almost dramatic manner
drew such numerous audiences that the con-
gregatlon removed first TO Exeter Hall, and
then to Surrey Music Hall These large audi
tor1ums proved insufficient to a. Accommodate
the multitudes, and in 1861 a chapel to hold
5000 people was erected for him in Newing-
ton Bits. He had received into his church nD
10 the time OF his death over 90, 900 members
and erected thirty-siX chapels in London pre-
sided over by ministers trained in a college of
ms 1oundlng His sermons were published
weekly. and f1ll no less than twenty-four vol
umes. He published since 1865 q paper. the
Iro1oet and Seoord, which had an immense
from the Baptist Union. because as he
claimed, ii was tolerating error and permit
ting downward tendency of ministers in
points OF doctrine, IN that some persons were
10 remain IN the union who made light of the
atonement, made light of the Holy Ghost,
called the fall of man fable, spoke Slight
ingly of justification by faith refused cred
ence to the dogma of the plenary inspiration
OF the holy scriptures, and held that there is
another probation after DEATH with possib IL
ties of a future retribution of the lost But he
declared that he remained as much Baptist
as ever, the union being an unofficial BODY.
He published many books among which are.
"The Saint and His Savior" "GIeaninos
Among Sheaves." 'John Ploughman's TaIken
Evening by Evening" Feathers for Ar
rows" Types and Emblems," Lectures to