The Forgotten Spurgeon

the forgotten spurgeon

volumes of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (that is vol umes 26–37, the years 1880 to 1891), 1 while Pilgrim Publica tions, Pasadena, Texas, have to date re-issued sixteen volumes (8–23, the years 1862 to 1878), and hope to continue right through the whole series. 2 A full textual index to the whole of Spurgeon’s sermons is also available to purchasers of the Brit ish reprints. There could be no finer spiritual investment for young Christians and for all engaged in Christian work than to take the present opportunity to buy this set. It will surely never be offered again at the current prices! I have made a few changes in this second edition. In chap ter 8 I have introduced several pages of evidence taken from newspaper cuttings contemporary with Spurgeon and col lected by him in his scrapbooks which are now preserved in Spurgeon’s College. Chapter 10 is an entirely new chapter. After the publication of the first edition of this book I had the opportunity to discuss some aspects of my subject with older Christians who remembered the Metropolitan Tabernacle in the earlier years of this century. One of them entrusted to me before his death the rare pamphlet by Charles Noble which I have added as an appendix to this edition. For me it was strong confirmation of the belief that lies behind this book, namely, that Spurgeon’s successors and the modern evangeli calism which they helped to inaugurate has been in several respects weaker and less biblical than the school of faith to which he belonged. Today, however, there is a movement back to those liv ing truths which Spurgeon believed future generations would rediscover in God’s time. Across the world young men and preachers are being gripped again by the very doctrines which 1 At present (2008), the Trust keeps in print only volume 38 (1892). 2 The entire set is currently available from Pilgrim Publications. Interest in Spurgeon today is such that most, if not all, of his sermons and writings are available, in print, in the form of electronic media, or on the World Wide Web.

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