A personal reminiscence of the great preacher (1834-1892) recorded by the Rev. W. Lomax Mackenzie, President of Spurgeon's College Old Students' Association
MORNING SERVICE from the Methodist Church, Artillery Street, Colchester, conducted by the Rev. H. Jesse Lawrence. Preacher, the Rev. P. W. Evans , D.D., Principal of Spurgeon's College
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Sweetly the holy hymn (M.H.B. 732) Invocation and the Lord's Prayer
Lesson: Isaiah 45, vv. 17-25 (read by* the Rev. Harry Sutton )
Jesus, we on the word depend
(M.H.B. 275)
Permon
And can it be that I should gain
(M.H.B. 371)
Prayers
Come. thou fount of every blessing
(M.H.B. 417)
Blessing
Choirmaster, Edward Lawrence
Organist, Joan Sparrow
Oh January 6, 1850, Charles Haddon Spurgeon was converted in the little Primitive Methodist Chapel from which this service comes. A snowstorm prevented him from going to his usual place of worship and that same storm kept the preacher away from this chapel. It was, therefore, a last-minute substitute who preached to a congregation of little more than a dozen and whose word converted the young Spurgeon. A Methodist lay-preacher gave to the Baptists and to England the greatest preacher of the time.