Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-05-25
Mr.. spu:rlgeon.

took US to the Surrey SIDE. TO
Mr.. spurgeon's Tabernacle.
We found the great body OF.
the audience admitted by ticket
before the opening of the doors to
the crowd, which was not very
large.
A few hundred waited, and all
went in with rush when the
time came. By dint of good en-
gineering we got an excellent seat
in the body of the house.
The interior of the building is
of oval form; and two galleries,
one above the other, run entirely
around the curve. The preacher
stands on an open platform,
surrounded by a railing on level
with the first gallery. The choir
occupies circular gallery directly
at the foot ofthe preachers stand
and a prodigious voiced leader
therein leads off in the music.
There is no organ or any instru-
mental music Of any kind only
The voices of the congregation, who
all stand and unite in the singing
as the verses are given out by the
preacher, one at a time. 1t was a
heayiy, dose of Methodism, 5000
strong, and in such a crowd it was
not difficult to raise glow which
all good Methodists deeply enjoyed
Ienjoyed it myself.
This church of Mr.. Spurgeon
holds six or seven thousand people
and it was so full that some were
standing in the aisles.
spurgeon is 3 burly, animal
looking man, with large, gross
face, biggest at the jaws and
gradually tapering to the top of
his head. Looked at form the front
his head and facefrom truncated
cone. He looks scarcely over 30
and has full shock of black hair.
His body is large and he bids fair
to be very great man in cir
cumference at least.
He looks like anything but an
intellectual person, and no one
would think of CHASING him under
this head.
He impresses one as possessing
even a more felicitous fuency
than either Mr.. Beecher or Mr..
Chaplin, and he has trained him
self to very clear biblical ex-
positions, or else he gives them
without training.
He abounds in pictorial langu-
age which is his natural utterance.
This exuberance of talk runs into
excesses of expression and ges-
ticulation which have made him
famous.
The present sermon was quite
free from them, though there was
enough to mark the character OF
the man. Thus he spoke CT "the
depths of sin into which man falls
but never so deep but that the long
arm of God can reach down and
draw him out" He referred to the
Apostles powerful language, and
said: "See how he drives this nail,
see how he rings this bell, till he
tolls the knell of every doubt"
Hc called on his hearers to
plunge into the ocean of the God
head" though they could never
rejoice IN sinless perfection till
they got to heaven. He prayed for
the Oueen and court, and asked
that "God would reform its mem
bers and given them grace, but at
any rate take care Of the poor"
He conducted the service in a
colloquial manner giving copious
commentaries upon the Scriptures
whicn he read, and asking tie
audience to sing some verses to
"the good9 old Scoth tune OF
Dundee"
He prayed that each individual
might be delivered ofhis besetting
sin and spoke particularly against
sloth and indolene, in which l
could fancy he might be thinking
of himself. His growing obeseity
is likely some day to make him
an inactive man, and be a clog
on his fancy.
speakingof the difference be-
tween sinner and a saint he
observed: THE sinner cared no.
thing about his SHINING; but when
a good man sinned he went about t
with sore bones for many day."
"The good man never chewed
the cud of his SIM Of Truth he