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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:01:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[music]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.67,0:01:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) I had never felt so wretched and miserable.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.70,0:01:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guilt and despair wrapped me around like a cloak,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.53,0:01:18.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a heavy black stifling cloak.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.83,0:01:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye, even though I was yet a lad of fifteen I knew well
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.53,0:01:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sin and evil that lurked in my young heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.80,0:01:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sought relief, oh, how I sought it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.87,0:01:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prayed, I read my bible, I went to church,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.77,0:01:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twice every Sunday.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.10,0:01:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But instead of relief I got the whip.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.30,0:01:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others could talk, tearful eyed of their Lord's forgiveness,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.27,0:01:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.63,0:01:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was to me a harsh taskmaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.27,0:01:58.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was desperate to find shelter.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.80,0:02:01.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd been to most of the churches in Colchester,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.63,0:02:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not Artillery Street Chapel.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.10,0:02:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Methodist but I was too cold to care.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.53,0:02:17.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪...the trump of God shall sound, rejoice ♪
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.83,0:02:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Preacher) The text for the week is from the Old Testament,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.70,0:02:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the mighty prophet Isaiah
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.10,0:02:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what a wonderful text it is,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.43,0:02:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for it is the very gospel in a nutshell.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.90,0:02:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isaiah chapter 45 and verse 22.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.30,0:02:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A dozen words dear friends,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.57,0:02:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dozen words that can save our souls if we pay heed to them:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.03,0:02:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Look unto me and be saved, all the ends of the earth."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.03,0:02:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dear friends, this is indeed a simple text.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.53,0:02:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For it says "look."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.97,0:02:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now looking don't take a lot of work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.27,0:03:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not like lifting your foot or your finger.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.07,0:03:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just, "look."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.33,0:03:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don't have go to college to learn how to look.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.73,0:03:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) Strange how God takes the most unlikely people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.90,0:03:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and uses them for His purposes.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.50,0:03:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was doing it with this preacher, bless his heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.63,0:03:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And little did I know then
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.40,0:03:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he was planning to do it with me
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.37,0:03:21.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in ways that my young imagination
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.77,0:03:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could never have dreamed.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.33,0:03:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you are looking to yourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.13,0:03:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no use looking there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.83,0:03:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll never find comfort in yourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.97,0:03:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will only find darkness and despair.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.83,0:03:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need the light
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.63,0:03:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there is only one who is that light.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.23,0:03:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why Jesus Christ says "Look to Me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.73,0:03:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look to me, I am all that you need."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.40,0:04:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Artillery Street in Colchester,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.73,0:04:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and down here is the chapel where our 15 year old teenager
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.80,0:04:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sheltered from the cold.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.27,0:04:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happened here would have an impact
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.97,0:04:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt, not just across Britain, but across the whole world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.40,0:04:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An impact, whose ripples are still reaching us today
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.40,0:04:18.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over a century after his death.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.67,0:04:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet his story is bang up to date.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.33,0:04:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one we're all familiar with:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.00,0:04:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an unknown country boy who arrives in the city
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.13,0:04:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find fame and romance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.03,0:04:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who struggles to overcome his weaknesses,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.97,0:04:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then is driven by his convictions to make a stand
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.40,0:04:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which leaves him isolated and ridiculed by the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.83,0:04:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles Haddon Spurgeon was to become no ordinary preacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.77,0:04:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our teenager was destined to become the "people's preacher",
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.67,0:04:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one of the most influential figures
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.30,0:04:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Queen Victoria's reign.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.33,0:05:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On June 19, 1834, in this cottage here in Kelvedon,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.70,0:05:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nineteen year old Eliza Spurgeon
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.87,0:05:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave birth to her first born son, Charles.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.33,0:05:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eliza had 16 children but 9 of them died in infancy.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.53,0:05:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eliza was a source of great inspiration to Charles.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.10,0:05:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed his younger brother James once said that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.43,0:05:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"she was the starting point of any goodness, or any greatness
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.80,0:05:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which any of us, by the grace of God enjoyed."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.77,0:05:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But his father John and grandfather James
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.93,0:05:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were also sources of great inspiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.20,0:05:52.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were both preachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.93,0:05:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact the Spurgeons came from a long line of preachers.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.03,0:05:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So right from the start young Charles had preachers,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.93,0:06:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bibles and pulpits very much in his blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.13,0:06:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the family had financial problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.03,0:06:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time Charles was eighteen months old
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.13,0:06:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they just couldn't cope so they arranged for his grandfather
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.77,0:06:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look after him at his home in Stambourne 20 miles away.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.93,0:06:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Spurgeon was the minister of Stambourne Meeting House
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.73,0:06:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was just next door.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.73,0:06:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His 17 year old daughter Ann became like a mother to Charles
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.20,0:06:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and her influence was as great as a natural mother.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.57,0:06:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was here, that he discovered something
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.60,0:06:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was to become a major part of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.37,0:06:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) Books!
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.43,0:06:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I loved books - the smell of them, the feel of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.40,0:06:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My grandfather had hundreds written by Puritan writers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.80,0:06:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of an earlier age and full of the theology
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.90,0:07:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that became my meat and drink.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.67,0:07:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not yet read -
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.23,0:07:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was the pictures that captured
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.53,0:07:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my childish imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.80,0:07:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One book in particular drew me again and again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.00,0:07:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was written by an unlearned tinker while in prison
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.53,0:07:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for preaching the Gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:17.73,0:07:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next to my Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.93,0:07:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress is my most read book.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.33,0:07:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its plain language and earthy characters
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.20,0:07:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left their mark upon me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.63,0:07:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) After five idyllic years at Stambourne
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.67,0:07:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the young Spurgeon moved to Colcester.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.03,0:07:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was six.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.63,0:07:43.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles' father was well known as a local preacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.57,0:07:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when they moved to a larger house here in Hythe Hill,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.07,0:07:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles was able to rejoin them.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.80,0:07:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The original house has long gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.27,0:07:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but some of the buildings still remain.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.23,0:08:01.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles really missed his Aunty Ann and his Grandfather,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.70,0:08:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they'd become very close.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.20,0:08:05.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But his new home, which was situated just here,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.73,0:08:09.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was just as warm and welcoming, full of the warmth and security
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.03,0:08:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all young boys need but rarely admit to.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.33,0:08:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles was a hero to his younger brother and his sisters
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.93,0:08:16.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were his adoring congregation
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.83,0:08:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whenever he played at church.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.20,0:08:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did he ever dream that one day he'd be doing it for real?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.67,0:08:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) I was truly blessed.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.93,0:08:32.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was surrounded by love.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.17,0:08:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My family all had a lively faith in the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.33,0:08:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew Him, and I wished with all my heart
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.40,0:08:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I could know Him too.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.93,0:08:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was a sinner, and I loved my sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.80,0:08:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one knew of my despair, of the turmoil, the emptiness,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.60,0:08:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the blackness that possessed me.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.13,0:08:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I kept it all to myself for five long years.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.13,0:09:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I yearned, I so yearned for his loving embrace.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.47,0:09:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I feared his piercing eye that saw the sin in me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.20,0:09:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Sabbath morn,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.87,0:09:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a battle was raging in my broken heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.83,0:09:26.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young man, you, yes you, you look very miserable -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.87,0:09:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you always will be miserable -
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.00,0:09:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,miserable in life, miserable in death if you don't obey my text;
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.87,0:09:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but obey now, and you will find what you are seeking.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.53,0:09:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you need do is look.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.47,0:09:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is nothing else for you to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.83,0:09:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has carried away your sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.43,0:09:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look and live.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.47,0:09:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard His voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.63,0:09:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) Aye, they may have been the halting words
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.17,0:09:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a simple country preacher but I heard His voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.73,0:10:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was speaking to me - to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.00,0:10:03.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt His arms wrap me around.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.37,0:10:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was enclosed in His love.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.13,0:10:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gone, gone was my despair, gone was my guilt, gone was my fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.40,0:10:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was His, and He was mine, my blessed Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.67,0:10:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Six months later Spurgeon came here - the River Lark.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:34.97,0:10:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was used as a ferry crossing for the people of Isleham.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.10,0:10:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As he'd studied his Bible,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.50,0:10:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he'd become convinced of the need to be baptized.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.47,0:10:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, spurning his Independent Church upbringing,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.53,0:10:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which didn't believe in adult baptism,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.17,0:10:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he joined with local Baptists
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.10,0:10:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and publicly and nervously declared his faith
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.87,0:11:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was baptized right here on May the 3rd, 1850.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.23,0:11:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) The wind blew down the river with a cutting blast
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.67,0:11:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as my turn came to wade into the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.60,0:11:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after I had walked a few steps,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.90,0:11:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saw the people on the ferry boat
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.63,0:11:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and on the river banks,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.47,0:11:23.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt as if heaven and earth and hell might all watch me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.20,0:11:24.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for I was not ashamed,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.73,0:11:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then and there to declare myself a follower of the Lamb.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.07,0:11:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My timidity was washed away.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.13,0:11:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It floated down the river into the sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.73,0:11:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Baptism loosed my tongue,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.23,0:11:39.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from that day it has never been quiet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.73,0:11:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Spurgeon was now living in Cambridge
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.43,0:11:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where he continued his studies.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.53,0:11:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was also doing some tutoring to earn some much needed cash.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.77,0:12:07.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,St. Andrew's Street Baptist church was his spiritual home.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.40,0:12:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He quickly gained a reputation as an excellent
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.60,0:12:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sunday school teacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.20,0:12:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much so that his classes were full not just with children,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.60,0:12:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also with adults.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.70,0:12:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had a rare ability for being able to explain
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.07,0:12:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deep truths of God
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.83,0:12:24.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way the man in the street could understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.87,0:12:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was still to preach his first sermon on a Sunday
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.03,0:12:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but someone was very keen that he should.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.30,0:12:38.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,James Vinter, affectionately known as Bishop Vinter
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.83,0:12:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was president of the local Preacher's Association.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.70,0:12:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was always on the lookout for new recruits.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.87,0:12:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had Spurgeon in his sights and he had a plan.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.77,0:12:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well my friend,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.10,0:12:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I trust we shall have a good congregation this evening
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.97,0:13:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I pray you will know the Lord's enabling as you preach.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.77,0:13:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I preach?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.67,0:13:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are mistaken my fiend, you are tonight's preacher!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.93,0:13:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No no, not me.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.93,0:13:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am here to encourage you brother.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.77,0:13:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bishop Vinter told me - said you were nervous of speaking
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.53,0:13:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would enjoy some company.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.93,0:13:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He told me you were to preach - your first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.50,0:13:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He requested I come to support you and steady your nerves.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.17,0:13:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thought of speaking fills me with dread
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.40,0:13:31.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anyway, I have nothing prepared.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.60,0:13:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I also am not prepared.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.40,0:13:36.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you do not speak, these good folks shall have nothing.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.73,0:13:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why not give them one of your Sunday school talks?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.63,0:13:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh now I am in dread!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.27,0:13:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brother, allow me some quiet while I think of what to say
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.37,0:13:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and what I shall say to Bishop Vinter when I next see him.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.07,0:14:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) The service was to be held in a farmer's cottage
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.53,0:14:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the village of Teversham near Cambridge.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.60,0:14:21.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people waiting had no idea they were about to hear someone
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.07,0:14:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was to become the most famous preacher in the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.93,0:14:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My good friends, thank you for your very kind hospitality.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.47,0:14:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have enjoyed food for our bodies,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.77,0:14:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now young master Spurgeon here is going to give us
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.93,0:14:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food for our souls.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.23,0:15:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) The folk gathered were kind and generous.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.93,0:15:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not notice my shaking knees,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.27,0:15:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or hear my pounding heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.07,0:15:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I stood up to speak it was as though God himself
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.73,0:15:15.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stood by me and gave me a boldness and an assurance
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.47,0:15:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as I had not known before.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.07,0:15:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The apostle Peter in his second letter declares,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.53,0:15:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"To you who believe, He, meaning Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.53,0:15:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is precious."
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.23,0:15:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He is precious!
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.40,0:15:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder what are those things that we hold as being precious?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.67,0:15:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is surely not those things that are merely valuable,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:40.67,0:15:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or those things that are special
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.37,0:15:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but those things which are unique;
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.07,0:15:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those things of which there is not another
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.50,0:15:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not a better.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.73,0:15:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does that not describe our savior?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.03,0:15:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is none more valuable, none more special, none better.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.20,0:16:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most important of all, there is none other.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.17,0:16:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the book of Acts we read that there is no other name
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.50,0:16:10.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given under heaven whereby man can be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.63,0:16:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are these not wonderfully liberating words,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.37,0:16:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,words which free us from the shackles of religion?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.93,0:16:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think upon this my friends; if Jesus Christ alone saves us
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.10,0:16:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then it follows that no amount of charitable works can do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:25.60,0:16:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No giving of all we have to the poor can do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.13,0:16:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no church attending, Bible reading,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.77,0:16:33.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not even our prayers can do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.30,0:16:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.83,0:16:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may be the kindest, most righteous person
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.33,0:16:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all of Teversham.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.47,0:16:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But your good living cannot do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.90,0:16:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may be the greatest sinner, and repent of your sins
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.90,0:16:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day, every hour, yet that cannot do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.97,0:16:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.17,0:16:56.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only Jesus, the precious one.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.00,0:17:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, you might ask, how, how does He do it?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:00.13,0:17:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does He save us.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.17,0:17:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The great prophet Isaiah tells us: "Look to Him, and be saved."
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.93,0:17:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look, look, just look.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:14.20,0:17:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So simple.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.03,0:17:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone can look.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.93,0:17:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The prince and the pauper can look,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:20.27,0:17:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sinner and the saint can look,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.40,0:17:25.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the grandfather and the grandson can look.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.90,0:17:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year ago I was such a one, who looked.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.80,0:17:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I simply looked, and trusted Him Who is precious, to save me.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.30,0:17:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight in this cottage, you can look, and you can be saved.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.07,0:17:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as you look and trust, He will become to you precious,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.97,0:17:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,precious beyond measure.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:54.33,0:17:56.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bless your dear heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.30,0:17:57.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, how old are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:57.77,0:18:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am under sixty!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.87,0:18:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, and under 16 more like.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.97,0:18:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never you mind my age,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:06.73,0:18:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just you think of the Lord Jesus and His preciousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.93,0:18:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now let us bring our service to a close as we sing that hymn,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.97,0:18:15.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Blessed be the tie that binds."
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.20,0:18:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♪ Blessed be the tie that binds...♪
Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.77,0:18:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over Cambridgeshire, the teenage Spurgeon
Dialogue: 0,0:18:30.37,0:18:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,won people's hearts as he preached in chapels,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:32.60,0:18:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,villages, cottages,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.30,0:18:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wherever people could get to hear him.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:36.17,0:18:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here at Waterbeach, the church has been rebuilt since then,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.60,0:18:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he preached on two consecutive Sundays.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.00,0:18:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was such a hit,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.17,0:18:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the people asked him to become their pastor.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.40,0:18:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was just 17 years of age.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.20,0:18:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The village was notorious for profanity and drunkenness.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.20,0:18:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as Spurgeon himself was later to write...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.00,0:19:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) In a short time the little thatched chapel was crammed,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.67,0:19:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the biggest vagabonds of the village
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.40,0:19:04.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were weeping floods of tears,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.40,0:19:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and those who had been the curse of the parish
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.23,0:19:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became its blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.73,0:19:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can say with joy and happiness
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.77,0:19:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that from one end of the village to the other,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.13,0:19:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the hour of eventide, one might have heard
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.33,0:19:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the voice of song coming from every roof,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:16.87,0:19:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and echoing from every heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.53,0:19:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was here that Spurgeon won his first convert.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.20,0:19:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a laborer's wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.80,0:19:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he saw it as God's seal upon his ministry.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.57,0:19:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The final thing I want to say to you is Psalm 37.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.10,0:19:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Delight yourself in the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.50,0:19:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anybody had said to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.30,0:19:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone has left you 20,000 pounds
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.57,0:19:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should not have given tuppence for it
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.77,0:19:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compared with the joy I felt
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.90,0:19:45.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I was told God had saved a soul though my ministry.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.93,0:19:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lord Jesus thank you for this blessed woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.93,0:19:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you for what she has prayed today in her heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.57,0:19:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt like a boy who had earned his first guinea,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.40,0:19:58.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or like a diver who had been down to the depths of the sea,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.23,0:19:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and brought up a great pearl.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.80,0:20:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was now preaching 3 times on Sundays,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.37,0:20:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 5 times during the week.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.63,0:20:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For someone still a teenager, the respect and adulation
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.47,0:20:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could have gone to his head and he was aware of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.83,0:20:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He well remembered the day that God spoke to him
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.33,0:20:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the dangers of a proud heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:20.27,0:20:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's from Jeremiah where he asks Baruch, his ambitious secretary,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:24.80,0:20:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Do you seek great things for yourself?"
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.40,0:20:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then he says, "Seek them not."
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.10,0:20:35.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The words struck right into his soul and he remembered them
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.97,0:20:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the rest of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.37,0:20:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But for now, with his increasing success,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.63,0:20:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some were jealous of him.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.87,0:20:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If only they knew what lay ahead!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.07,0:21:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) God in His goodness blessed my time at Waterbeach.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.73,0:21:05.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yes, I blundered, I often blundered,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.83,0:21:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I was well loved
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.90,0:21:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the people who readily forgave their youthful pastor.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.53,0:21:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My young brother James became a Barnabas to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.60,0:21:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of godly wisdom and encouragement.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.40,0:21:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had much to learn.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:26.60,0:21:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(James) When I drove my brother about the country to preach,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.77,0:21:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought then as I thought ever since,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.70,0:21:36.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what an extraordinary preacher he was.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.07,0:21:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What feeling and power
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.07,0:21:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember in some of those early speeches!
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.67,0:21:44.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The effect upon the people I have never known exceeded
Dialogue: 0,0:21:44.03,0:21:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in after years.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.13,0:21:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He seemed to have leaped full grown into the pulpit.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.50,0:21:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The breadth and brilliance of those early sermons,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.00,0:21:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the power that God's Holy Spirit evidently gave to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:56.87,0:21:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made him perfectly marvelous.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:09.43,0:22:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) On the last Sunday of November 1853
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.20,0:22:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a letter arrived which was to change Spurgeon's life.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:18.87,0:22:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an invitation from New Park Street Chapel
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.20,0:22:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in south London to preach with a view to becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.07,0:22:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their new pastor.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.47,0:22:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surely it was a mistake.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.77,0:22:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did they realize how young he was?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.73,0:22:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A second letter confirmed the invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.57,0:22:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon had mixed feelings about going.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.07,0:22:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loved the country.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.47,0:22:46.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God was calling, it was a matter of obedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.30,0:22:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,London was the center of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.47,0:23:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and home for its most powerful monarch.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:01.73,0:23:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The young Queen Victoria
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.10,0:23:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reigned over a rapidly expanding empire.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:06.67,0:23:09.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,International travel was the latest thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.87,0:23:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was an exhilarating time.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:13.27,0:23:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New inventions and discoveries were being made,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.90,0:23:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,almost weekly it seemed.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.57,0:23:21.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The medical world was being transformed by the discovery
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.93,0:23:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of antiseptics and anesthesia.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:25.53,0:23:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Industrial Revolution was in full swing,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.00,0:23:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,changing the lives of millions.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.97,0:23:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But not always for the better especially in London.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.53,0:23:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) I hated London.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.07,0:23:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hated the noise, the rush, the crowds, and the stink.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.13,0:23:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They told me 3 million people lived here
Dialogue: 0,0:23:51.67,0:23:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I saw some of them; the rich with their fine clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.40,0:24:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could smell them coming with their fancy perfumes.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.77,0:24:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you could smell the poor beggars they passed by.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.23,0:24:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the sight that choked me most was the orphans,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.10,0:24:08.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of them they said.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.97,0:24:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No where to go except the streets,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.27,0:24:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no one to care for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:12.73,0:24:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scrawny chickens they were, starving, filthy, wretched,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.90,0:24:19.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begging and thieving to stay alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:19.80,0:24:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where was the conscience of the people?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:22.33,0:24:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could they permit such evil to flourish.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.97,0:24:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh how I hated London.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:32.00,0:24:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Had God called me to this?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.37,0:24:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was nearly Christmas.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.13,0:24:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was lonely.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.90,0:24:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He desperately missed home and family.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.27,0:24:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The church didn't offer him any hospitality.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:47.97,0:24:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put him up in a boarding house here in Queens Square
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.37,0:24:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Bloomsbury.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.80,0:24:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't nearly so posh then.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.93,0:24:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was miserable.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.47,0:24:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His room was the size of a broom cupboard.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.53,0:25:02.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His fellow boarders taunted him cruelly about his appearance
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.67,0:25:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his strange accent.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:04.67,0:25:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their boasting about London's wonderful preachers
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.80,0:25:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made him feel even more depressed and inadequate.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.27,0:25:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) I had no friend in all that city full of human beings,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:18.33,0:25:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to escape safely to the serene abodes of Cambridge
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.27,0:25:23.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Waterbeach seemed like Eden itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.73,0:25:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm at the site of New Park Street Chapel,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.07,0:25:33.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just south of the River Thames.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.77,0:25:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was one of the Baptist Union's
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.43,0:25:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most influential churches.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.83,0:25:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For nearly 200 years it drew a good sized congregation
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.50,0:25:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to its large sanctuary.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.87,0:25:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with the building of new roads and factories
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.20,0:25:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its location worked against it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.13,0:25:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was often flooded.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:49.90,0:25:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As one of the pastors once said "A more depressing, uninviting
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.40,0:25:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and repelling region than where the chapel is situated
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.33,0:25:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have seldom explored."
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.87,0:26:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people moved out and the church lost its congregation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.20,0:26:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It dwindled from about 1200 to just a handful.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:05.80,0:26:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its decline had become an embarrassment to the Baptists.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.83,0:26:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was hoped that Charles Spurgeon would stop the rot.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.43,0:26:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so on Sunday the 18th of December, 1853,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.07,0:26:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very nervous Spurgeon made his way
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.00,0:26:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to New Park Street Chapel.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:24.47,0:26:25.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was far bigger and grander
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.93,0:26:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than anywhere he had preached before.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:28.57,0:26:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of the great Baptists, heroes to Spurgeon,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.53,0:26:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had preached here.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.87,0:26:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wondered how he could have had the temerity
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.10,0:26:37.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to accept the invitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.23,0:26:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the glory days had passed and on that morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.30,0:26:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he spoke to an almost empty church.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.40,0:26:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good morning dear friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.43,0:26:54.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My text this morning is from James.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.27,0:27:01.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.83,0:27:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cometh down from the father of lights."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:06.07,0:27:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) No one imagined that the preacher would become
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.87,0:27:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the perfect illustration of the text,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.93,0:27:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,least of all Spurgeon who just wanted to go home.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.67,0:27:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this verse speaks very clearly to us
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.67,0:27:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Who we are to aim our thanks towards.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:20.90,0:27:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to ourselves, not to our brothers, but to our Father.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.50,0:27:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) But something happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.17,0:27:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The congregation was riveted.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.00,0:27:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was preaching the like of which
Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.83,0:27:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had never heard before and they loved it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.47,0:27:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Word went out, and that evening the church was full of people
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.70,0:27:43.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hungry for God, and here was someone who could feed them
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.00,0:27:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he a mere teenager.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.80,0:27:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Psalm 37: "Delight thyself also in the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:51.80,0:27:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He shall give thee the desires of thy heart."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.73,0:27:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Urged on by the congregation,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.67,0:28:01.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deacons asked Spurgeon to come again.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:01.87,0:28:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key is not in chasing the desires of our heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.17,0:28:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The key is in chasing the Lord.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.33,0:28:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) When I trudged back to the Queen's Square lodging,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.33,0:28:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was not alone, and I no longer looked on Londoners
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.53,0:28:22.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as hard-hearted heathen.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.53,0:28:24.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My attitude changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.27,0:28:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted no pity of anyone; I did not care a penny
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.00,0:28:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the young gentlemen lodgers and their miraculous ministers,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.73,0:28:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor for the grind of cabs,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:32.43,0:28:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor for anything else under the sun.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:39.33,0:28:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Within 4 months the church had decided
Dialogue: 0,0:28:41.50,0:28:43.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was their man.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.87,0:28:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was 19.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.60,0:28:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a letter to his grandfather at Stambourne he wrote:
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.40,0:28:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) You have heard that I am now a Londoner,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.93,0:28:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a little bit of a celebrity.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.23,0:29:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No college could have put me in a higher position.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.30,0:29:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our place is one of the pinnacles of the denomination.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:03.77,0:29:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I have a great work to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.60,0:29:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have need of all the prayers
Dialogue: 0,0:29:06.80,0:29:08.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sons of God can offer for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.80,0:29:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In just a couple of months the congregation increased
Dialogue: 0,0:29:18.20,0:29:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from 200 to nearly 2,000.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.27,0:29:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They mostly from the middle class north side of the Thames.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.43,0:29:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But neither the long distance nor the bridge toll
Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.57,0:29:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put them off.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.73,0:29:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At last, they had found someone who spoke about God
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.20,0:29:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that they could understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.43,0:29:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most preachers of the day used the language
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.73,0:29:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the intelligentsia - it was all a bit academic and dry.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.07,0:29:41.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon broke the mold with his down to earth style,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:41.37,0:29:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using words that everybody could understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.20,0:29:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He made God real and relevant
Dialogue: 0,0:29:44.97,0:29:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way few preachers of the day did.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.87,0:29:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what is the church but the bride of Christ;
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.77,0:29:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you and me dear friends.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.67,0:30:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are His beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.13,0:30:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) But not everyone thought he was so wonderful,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.60,0:30:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at least to begin with.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.53,0:30:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susannah Thompson was 22, 2 years older than Spurgeon,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.03,0:30:12.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was most unimpressed,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:12.17,0:30:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still came to hear the young man with the odd accent.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.40,0:30:19.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her presence didn't go unnoticed!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.17,0:30:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is why marriage is such a sacred -
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.40,0:30:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such a sacred and honored thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.87,0:30:30.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) But she also had a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.57,0:30:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had doubts about her faith
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.47,0:30:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was uncertain if she was even a Christian.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.87,0:30:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon found out,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.33,0:30:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sent her a copy of Pilgim's Progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.50,0:30:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he felt that they should get together
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.20,0:30:44.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to "discuss" her problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.53,0:30:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The occasion was the grand re-opening
Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.37,0:30:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Crystal Palace on the 10th of June, 1854.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.27,0:30:58.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Spurgeon's interest wasn't only in her spiritual progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.57,0:31:02.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dear, I have been reading Tupper's
Dialogue: 0,0:31:02.73,0:31:07.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Proverbial Philosophy," very good I must say.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.03,0:31:10.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to show you something.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.37,0:31:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think of the poet's suggestion in these verses?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.00,0:31:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me see.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.60,0:31:22.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah "Seek a good wife from your God,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.13,0:31:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"for she is the best gift of His providence;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.00,0:31:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yet do not demand that which He has not promised;
Dialogue: 0,0:31:31.83,0:31:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You know not what His will is,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.27,0:31:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"so be submissive in your prayers,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.73,0:31:38.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and trust Him to answer your request as He sees fit,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.13,0:31:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"assured that He will deal well with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.77,0:31:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you are to have a wife of your youth,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.53,0:31:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"she is now living on the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:46.83,0:31:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore think of her, and pray for her."
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.73,0:32:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you pray for him who is to be your husband?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.30,0:32:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I certainly pray for her who is to be my wife!
Dialogue: 0,0:32:36.33,0:32:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) The Lord surely has a sense of humor.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:39.73,0:32:42.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That I should fall in love with this man,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.13,0:32:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with an accent that seemed more like an affliction.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.07,0:32:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that summer, as we went a courting,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:48.80,0:32:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew in my heart I'd never find another.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.03,0:33:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God knit our hearts together.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:02.17,0:33:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He became to me my beloved and my pastor, for he delivered me
Dialogue: 0,0:33:07.80,0:33:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my doubting by his wise counsel.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:34.20,0:33:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We married the following winter,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:36.47,0:33:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ere long God blessed us with our darling twins
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.13,0:33:44.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thomas and Charles.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.13,0:33:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) The twins were a great joy to Susannah and Charles
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.27,0:33:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had the joy of seeing them enter the ministry,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.47,0:33:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thomas eventually becoming pastor
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.33,0:33:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.90,0:33:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon's preaching was attracting
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.27,0:34:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more and more people.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.83,0:34:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,NewPark Street Chapel
Dialogue: 0,0:34:01.93,0:34:04.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was becoming dangerously overcrowded.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.47,0:34:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without proper ventilation it was also becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.87,0:34:08.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increasingly unpleasant.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.73,0:34:13.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cramped and airless conditions were by now
Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.83,0:34:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting on his nerves
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.10,0:34:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the deacons refused to do anything about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.13,0:34:21.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until that is, one particular Sunday.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.17,0:34:22.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd had enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.20,0:34:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He turned round and faced the wall behind his pulpit
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.50,0:34:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shouted, "By faith the walls of Jericho came down,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.80,0:34:31.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by faith this wall will come down too."
Dialogue: 0,0:34:31.53,0:34:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shocked deacons gave in,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.27,0:34:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and readily agreed to extend the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.13,0:34:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now they had to find another building to worship in
Dialogue: 0,0:34:38.33,0:34:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the renovations were carried out.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:41.00,0:34:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their choice of location caused quite a stir.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.63,0:34:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was Exeter Hall in the heart of London's West End.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:51.40,0:34:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Sunday, throughout the renovation,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.20,0:34:55.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the streets around the hall were grid-locked
Dialogue: 0,0:34:55.53,0:34:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with cabs and carriages taking people to hear Mr. Spurgeon.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.27,0:35:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The place was packed.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.97,0:35:09.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people loved his populist style which many church leaders
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.37,0:35:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the media regarded as vulgar.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:12.33,0:35:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he didn't care.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.80,0:35:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If anything the by now, 21 year old preacher
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.73,0:35:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reveled in his new found notoriety.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:20.57,0:35:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) For myself I will rejoice, the devil is roused,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.53,0:35:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Church is awakening,
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.53,0:35:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I am counted worthy to suffer for Christ's sake.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.93,0:35:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good ballast father, good ballast.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:36.27,0:35:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became that which I disdained - famous.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:40.13,0:35:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in the limelight.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:42.20,0:35:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a place of danger to my immortal soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.83,0:35:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But God had his way of squashing my youthful pride.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:49.50,0:35:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever gifts I possessed, He had given me to serve Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.07,0:35:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were not mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.07,0:35:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh there were some who saw my confidence
Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.07,0:36:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as pride and arrogance.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:00.00,0:36:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They did not see my trembling heart,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:02.40,0:36:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so readily bruised by a harsh word.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:08.40,0:36:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I shall never forget when a slanderous report
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.60,0:36:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against my character came to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.70,0:36:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my heart was broken in agony.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:16.13,0:36:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that in preaching the gospel I had to be willing
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.80,0:36:21.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to become of no reputation.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.43,0:36:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Master, I will not keep back even that from You.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:26.53,0:36:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If I must lose it, then I let it go;
Dialogue: 0,0:36:29.33,0:36:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it is the dearest thing I have,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:31.63,0:36:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but it shall go if, like my Master,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:33.90,0:36:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"they shall say I have a devil and am mad;
Dialogue: 0,0:36:36.60,0:36:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"or they accuse me like Him,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.40,0:36:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of being a drunken man and a wine-bibber."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.67,0:36:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Five months later, New Park Street Chapel re-opened
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.53,0:36:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now much brighter and roomier.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.50,0:36:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cabs and carriages did a roaring trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:50.27,0:36:52.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On a Sunday morning they'd cruise around the city
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.27,0:36:55.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calling out, "Over the water to Charlie,"
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.33,0:36:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they very quickly filled up
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.40,0:36:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as did the 200 extra seats.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.97,0:37:04.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By now they were back to square one with as Spurgeon said,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.60,0:37:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a harvest much too rich for the barn.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:07.67,0:37:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put up with it for another year and then decided to do
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.67,0:37:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what they should have done in the first place,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.47,0:37:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,namely, build a bigger barn.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:14.93,0:37:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while the money was raised for the new building
Dialogue: 0,0:37:17.67,0:37:19.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they moved back to Exeter Hall
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.57,0:37:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but even that couldn't cope with the increased crowds.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:24.07,0:37:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they then moved to the biggest indoor venue in London,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:27.37,0:37:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Surrey Gardens Music Hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.00,0:37:36.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was here, that tragedy struck.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:41.40,0:37:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is near the site
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.37,0:37:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the Surrey Gardens Music Hall once stood.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.73,0:37:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was enormous.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:45.57,0:37:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could seat 10,000 people.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.73,0:37:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The news that Spurgeon was going to preach here
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.53,0:37:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spread through London like wildfire.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.87,0:37:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was October 19, 1856.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.40,0:37:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All day long, people were gathering in the park
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.47,0:38:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting for the doors to open.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.20,0:38:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hall itself was actually packed to capacity,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.80,0:38:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with thousands waiting outside.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.03,0:38:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,London hadn't seen anything like this in a hundred years.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:08.90,0:38:11.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon himself almost lost his nerve
Dialogue: 0,0:38:11.07,0:38:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the sheer size of the crowd.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.33,0:38:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was just about to preach his sermon,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.73,0:38:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when there was a disturbance at the back of the hall.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.13,0:38:23.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fire, fire, the place is falling, everybody out,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:23.00,0:38:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the galleries are giving way.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.53,0:38:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[yelling]
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.33,0:38:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So often we lose the meaning of this wonderful psalm,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.80,0:38:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this wonderful poem written by a man in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.07,0:38:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[yelling]
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.10,0:38:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) The hall was so vast he had no idea what was happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.80,0:39:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[yelling]
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.43,0:39:04.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Word eventually reached Spurgeon
Dialogue: 0,0:39:04.20,0:39:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he tried to stop the panic.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.67,0:39:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Please would those nearest the exits leave first.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.87,0:39:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) In the stampede 7 people were killed
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.67,0:39:20.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and 28 seriously injured.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.17,0:39:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon collapsed when he discovered what had happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.27,0:39:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was even rumored that he had died.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:26.33,0:39:27.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there had been no fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.77,0:39:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the galleries had not given way.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:30.40,0:39:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the work of hooligans
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.77,0:39:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intent on disrupting the service.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.07,0:39:40.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An already hostile press tore Spurgeon to shreds
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.17,0:39:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blaming him for the tragedy.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.93,0:39:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It haunted him for the rest of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.63,0:39:53.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) Only God Himself knew the anguish of my sad spirit?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.27,0:39:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tears were my meat by day and dreams of terror by night.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.77,0:40:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My thoughts were as jagged piercing knives,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.13,0:40:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cutting my heart to pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.87,0:40:11.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not be comforted.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.77,0:40:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My beloved Bible brought me no light.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:14.73,0:40:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not pray.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.27,0:40:19.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt my faith had died and God had abandoned me.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:25.13,0:40:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, like a flash of lightning,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.23,0:40:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my soul returned to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.73,0:40:31.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was free.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:36.13,0:40:39.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The iron fetter was broken in pieces,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:39.03,0:40:41.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my prison door was open.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:41.10,0:40:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I leaped for joy of heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:43.60,0:40:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a man again and what is more, a believer.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:58.00,0:41:00.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Within two weeks he was back preaching at Surrey Gardens
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.53,0:41:02.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only this time only in the mornings.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.70,0:41:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The publicity had turned him into even more of a celebrity.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:06.57,0:41:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now people were coming from far and wide to hear him preach,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.40,0:41:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many out of sheer curiosity.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.00,0:41:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A year later many thousands of people
Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.27,0:41:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were massacred in India, Britain's "jewel in the crown".
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.53,0:41:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The "Indian Mutiny was seen as a humiliation
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.73,0:41:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the proud British.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.33,0:41:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The nation was called to a day of prayer and fasting.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.40,0:41:34.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was invited to preach to 24,000 people
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.43,0:41:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at Crystal Palace.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.40,0:41:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He may not have agreed with the politics of empire,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.90,0:41:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he made sure is biggest ever congregation
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.27,0:41:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard the gospel.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.53,0:41:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile funds had been raised for the new building
Dialogue: 0,0:41:47.47,0:41:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the summer of 1859 the foundation stone
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.63,0:41:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was laid on land just upriver from New Park street Chapel.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.40,0:41:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eighteen months later, in March 1861,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.30,0:42:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here at the Elephant and Castle the new church was opened.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.80,0:42:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here it is: the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.07,0:42:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's still a thriving church today.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.33,0:42:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was enormous!
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.73,0:42:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cost just over 32,000 pounds,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.90,0:42:22.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about 2 million pounds at today's prices.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.67,0:42:26.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It had three galleries and had seating for 6,000 people
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.40,0:42:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with room for another 500 standing.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:31.97,0:42:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Admission was by ticket freely available
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.53,0:42:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and guaranteeing a seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.00,0:42:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those without had to stand in the aisles.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:40.50,0:42:42.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'd all come to hear Mr. Spurgeon
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.63,0:42:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would continue to do so for some thirty years.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.40,0:43:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) The Sabbath was exhilarating and terrifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:00.27,0:43:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, terrifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:03.40,0:43:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They said 6,000 people came to hear me preach,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.20,0:43:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this country yokel from the fens.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:11.60,0:43:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weight of it and the honor of it often brought me low.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:16.67,0:43:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many a Sabbath morn my breakfast was vomited
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.67,0:43:24.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Jonah from the whale with sweats and palpitations.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.83,0:43:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my good Lord never failed to strengthen me.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.63,0:43:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The preaching of the word - His precious word,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:37.17,0:43:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is what the people came to hear.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.67,0:43:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And early they came, to be sure of finding a seat.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:43.53,0:43:46.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And happily they waited until the hour:
Dialogue: 0,0:43:46.27,0:43:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,11 o'clock on the Sabbath morn,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.50,0:43:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and half past six in the evening.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.07,0:43:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The service was simple - an opening hymn
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.73,0:43:57.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sung without the assistance of any musical instrument.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.03,0:44:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reading of the scriptures, a second hymn,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.00,0:44:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the preaching of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.53,0:44:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not have wished for a more attentive congregation
Dialogue: 0,0:44:06.80,0:44:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they listened in reverent silence.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.53,0:44:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It only made me stronger in my determination to be faithful
Dialogue: 0,0:44:14.77,0:44:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my preaching of the word.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.27,0:44:25.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The natural heart rebels against
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.20,0:44:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the simplicity of the way of salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.40,0:44:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:32.53,0:44:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I to do nothing but simply accept
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.07,0:44:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what Christ has already done?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.77,0:44:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I to do nothing but merely look to Him who was nailed
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.60,0:44:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the tree, and find all my salvation in Him?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:48.97,0:44:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, then," says the proud heart, "I cannot understand it."
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.47,0:45:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. It cannot understand it because it does not like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.60,0:45:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, if this be your difficulty, and I believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.67,0:45:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in nine cases out of ten,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:08.53,0:45:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a proud heart is at the root of all difficulty
Dialogue: 0,0:45:12.00,0:45:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the sinner's coming to Christ -
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.00,0:45:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this be it which hinders you,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.27,0:45:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then go to God about it, and seek wisdom from Him.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.60,0:45:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He will show you the foolishness of this pride of yours,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:29.87,0:45:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and He will teach you that simply to trust in Jesus
Dialogue: 0,0:45:34.20,0:45:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is at once the safest and most suitable way of salvation.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.40,0:45:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) I oft pondered the reason Charlie is so well liked.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.17,0:45:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Especially so as he never plays to the galleries
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.50,0:45:49.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for popular appeal.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:49.03,0:45:51.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On occasion his message is hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.43,0:45:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though delivered with a soft heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.07,0:45:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard him once say,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:56.37,0:46:00.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We shall not adjust our Bible to the age;
Dialogue: 0,0:46:00.00,0:46:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"but before we have done with it, by God's grace,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.03,0:46:06.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we shall adjust the age to the Bible."
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.27,0:46:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He seeks always to please his God rather than entertain man.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.47,0:46:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His honesty and integrity,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:13.13,0:46:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his infectious confidence in the holy scriptures,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:16.47,0:46:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these, I concluded, are what draw men to him.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.13,0:46:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah! Poor heart, when you see the blackness of your sin,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:26.63,0:46:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is no wonder that you are driven to despair.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.50,0:46:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When your sins come howling behind you,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.87,0:46:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like so many ravenous wolves seeking to devour you,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:38.53,0:46:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can well understand why you should wish to lay violent hands
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.03,0:46:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,upon yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:44.80,0:46:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is no strange thing for men to lose all hope
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.27,0:46:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when under a sense of sin.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:52.47,0:46:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know not what to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:55.40,0:46:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If only you could be calm and quiet,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:58.40,0:47:01.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could tell you the way of peace.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.23,0:47:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you are too much troubled to hear what we have to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:06.40,0:47:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Y to everybody but you,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:10.40,0:47:14.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you are in such a worry and a turmoil.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.33,0:47:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As John Bunyan used to say,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:17.00,0:47:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are much troubled up and down in your thoughts.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.60,0:47:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I ask you then, pray -
Dialogue: 0,0:47:26.00,0:47:30.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pray even out of the depths of your despair
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.23,0:47:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that God will open the eyes of your understanding.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.97,0:47:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I assure you, he will be pleased to instruct you
Dialogue: 0,0:47:40.37,0:47:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring you out into a safe way, a way of peace and joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:51.47,0:47:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.40,0:48:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God called me to feed His people with the choicest fare.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.17,0:48:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But preparing it is no mere boiling of an egg
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.73,0:48:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for a few minutes.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:13.40,0:48:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I confess that I frequently sit hour after hour
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.30,0:48:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,praying and waiting for a subject,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.90,0:48:24.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that this is the main part of my study.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.33,0:48:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much hard labor have I spent in the working out of topics,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.47,0:48:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking through points of doctrine,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:30.93,0:48:33.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making skeletons out of verses
Dialogue: 0,0:48:33.63,0:48:35.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then burying every bone of them
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.27,0:48:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the catacombs of oblivion.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:39.33,0:48:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Saturday night I prepare enough outlines of sermons
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.83,0:48:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to last me a month.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.87,0:48:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I no more dare use them than an honest sailor
Dialogue: 0,0:48:48.00,0:48:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would smuggle ashore a cargo of contraband goods.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.53,0:49:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when a text grips me, I have found the sermon.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.93,0:49:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I have found the sermon, I preach it,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.03,0:49:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assured it will speak to the people
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.03,0:49:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with power and authority.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.07,0:49:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never cease to marvel how it touches the people
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.80,0:49:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and meets their needs.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:19.33,0:49:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And blessed be His name, it has nothing to do with me,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:23.47,0:49:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am only one who listens to his master,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.77,0:49:28.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and speaks out what he hears.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.93,0:49:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For tourists, going to hear Mr Spurgeon was a must.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:43.20,0:49:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Metropolitan Tabernacle
Dialogue: 0,0:49:44.33,0:49:47.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became London's most famous preaching point.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.43,0:49:49.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was also pioneering something the people hadn't
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.50,0:49:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heard before - preaching the gospel not just with words,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.27,0:49:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but also with social action.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:59.23,0:50:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was revolutionary stuff, much criticized by church leaders who
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.23,0:50:07.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accused them of betraying God's command to "preach the gospel."
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.47,0:50:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social action, they said, was not part of this.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.00,0:50:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Spurgeon, who was way ahead of his time
Dialogue: 0,0:50:12.73,0:50:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and believed the gospel was for the body
Dialogue: 0,0:50:14.20,0:50:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not just for the soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.87,0:50:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the building was open from early morning
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.77,0:50:21.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until almost midnight six days a week,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.40,0:50:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serving a very needy community.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.33,0:50:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact over 60 ministries and charitable works
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.47,0:50:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were begun during Spurgeon's time
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.40,0:50:34.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.13,0:50:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of them were maintained by the royalties from his books.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:38.33,0:50:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of those works have continued to the present day.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.17,0:50:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Surrey Square Mission,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.40,0:50:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a mile or so from the tabernacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:46.60,0:50:49.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of twenty mission stations founded by Spurgeon.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:49.43,0:50:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He visited them regularly.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.07,0:50:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In these little chapels,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:51.93,0:50:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the gospel was preached and practiced.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:54.73,0:50:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of the chapels like these still exist today,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.00,0:50:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as do quite a few of the works that he began.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:04.00,0:51:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The plight of London's street kids
Dialogue: 0,0:51:05.67,0:51:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weighed heavily on Spurgeon.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:09.00,0:51:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were mostly orphans,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:10.33,0:51:14.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or from families too poor to look after them.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:14.93,0:51:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to beg and steal just to stay alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.00,0:51:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To many people they were no more than vermin.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.50,0:51:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon was a big fan of George Muller,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.97,0:51:27.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had already opened
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.27,0:51:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,several dormitory style orphan houses in Bristol.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.13,0:51:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon's vision was for smaller family based homes,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.00,0:51:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,housing about a dozen children with their own matron.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.27,0:51:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks to a large donation from a clergyman's widow,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.03,0:51:45.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these homes at Stockwell in south London
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.27,0:51:47.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were built for boys.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.47,0:51:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ten years later accommodation was added for girls.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.20,0:51:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As in the Muller homes, children got a good education
Dialogue: 0,0:51:55.40,0:52:00.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and were well prepared for the challenges of adulthood.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.37,0:52:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today it's known simply as "Spurgeons"
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.53,0:52:05.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping vulnerable children and young people find hope
Dialogue: 0,0:52:05.23,0:52:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fulfillment in the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.03,0:52:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeons runs many projects,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:10.00,0:52:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,specially designed to meet the needs of each community,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.73,0:52:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only in the United Kingdom, but internationally.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.87,0:52:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon himself never had any formal training
Dialogue: 0,0:52:22.83,0:52:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the ministry.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.80,0:52:27.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those days you had to be an Anglican to go to university.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:27.87,0:52:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he certainly wasn't against training.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.60,0:52:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when some young men who were passionate about preaching,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.67,0:52:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asked him for some, he started the Pastor's College.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.47,0:52:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once again he financed it from his own book royalties.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:39.93,0:52:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today it's known as Spurgeon's College
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.23,0:52:45.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is held in high esteem by the evangelical community.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:51.50,0:52:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every Friday, the Guv'nor' as they called him,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:54.40,0:52:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave his lectures, many of them still published today
Dialogue: 0,0:52:57.47,0:52:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including his series on preaching:
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.20,0:53:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Lectures to My Students."
Dialogue: 0,0:53:01.97,0:53:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During his lifetime he rejoiced to see
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.80,0:53:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,900 of his students graduate.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.47,0:53:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And today that tradition continues
Dialogue: 0,0:53:08.47,0:53:11.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with men and women, of every Christian denomination
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.33,0:53:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,receiving training to graduate level for service in the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.67,0:53:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today's college has been here
Dialogue: 0,0:53:16.93,0:53:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Upper Norwood in South London since 1923
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.70,0:53:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's only a stone's throw from where
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.60,0:53:26.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon and his wife Susannah came to live in 1880.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.47,0:53:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Westwood was well away from the pollution
Dialogue: 0,0:53:31.00,0:53:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had affected both Charles' and Susannah's health.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:34.47,0:53:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in Upper Norwood, near Crystal palace.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:38.00,0:53:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon felt it was a bit grand,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.07,0:53:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but discovered that he could buy it
Dialogue: 0,0:53:41.53,0:53:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the price of his London home.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:43.93,0:53:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was perfect and easily accommodated his
Dialogue: 0,0:53:46.67,0:53:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12,000 book library, and the many guests that came to stay.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.67,0:53:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) Coming here has been such a blessing.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:55.87,0:53:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fresh air and sunlight has benefited our health
Dialogue: 0,0:53:58.43,0:54:02.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considerably, and Charlie now has space to fulfill
Dialogue: 0,0:54:02.13,0:54:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his expanding ministry much more efficiently.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.80,0:54:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have two secretaries to assist
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.60,0:54:10.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the hundreds of letters that arrive every week,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:10.67,0:54:12.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and researchers to help with the four books
Dialogue: 0,0:54:12.50,0:54:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he writes each year.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:14.87,0:54:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The royalties from his writings are considerable -
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.27,0:54:19.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have enabled us to live without being
Dialogue: 0,0:54:19.93,0:54:23.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a financial burden upon the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.13,0:54:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Charlie gives all he can to the Lord's work.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.93,0:54:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are certainly golden years.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:30.07,0:54:35.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But my, he does work so and rarely takes any rest
Dialogue: 0,0:54:35.33,0:54:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,except when he visits his beloved Mentone.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:46.60,0:54:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Mentone, on the French Riviera
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.23,0:54:50.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became a regular retreat for Spurgeon.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.00,0:54:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The warm balmy breezes of the Mediterranean
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.40,0:54:57.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the perfect cure
Dialogue: 0,0:54:57.63,0:54:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the stresses and pressures of ministry.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.60,0:55:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He loved nothing more than to stay at his favorite hotel
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.20,0:55:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right on the sea front: the Beau Rivage.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:15.40,0:55:18.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hotel has long gone, but a block of apartments,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.53,0:55:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,built on its site, still bears it's name.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.23,0:55:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even here, he never really switched off.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.60,0:55:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His secretary and trusted confidant Joseph Harrald
Dialogue: 0,0:55:29.93,0:55:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often went with him to assist with his writing
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.20,0:55:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which he was able to do
Dialogue: 0,0:55:33.67,0:55:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free from the demands of a thriving congregation.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:42.53,0:55:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Susannah always remained at home.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.37,0:55:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She began to suffer ill health
Dialogue: 0,0:55:47.93,0:55:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and eventually required surgery,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.93,0:55:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what for, no-one knows for sure, but it was serious enough
Dialogue: 0,0:55:53.83,0:55:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that for a time she became bed-ridden.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:03.93,0:56:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Charles Spurgeon was preaching God's word
Dialogue: 0,0:56:06.10,0:56:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, another Charles,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.07,0:56:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charles Darwin, was preaching his theory of evolution
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.07,0:56:17.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through his book "The Origin of Species."
Dialogue: 0,0:56:17.60,0:56:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The year the Metropolitan Tabernacle opened,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.00,0:56:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon then 27, responded by giving a humorous lecture
Dialogue: 0,0:56:23.83,0:56:28.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "The Gorilla and the Land he inhabits".
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.37,0:56:30.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cartoonists went to town.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:33.80,0:56:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Darwin's new theory, and the German Higher Criticism
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.00,0:56:39.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were having a profound impact on the church.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.73,0:56:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of her leaders were losing confidence
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.37,0:56:45.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the authority of the Bible - it was more and more
Dialogue: 0,0:56:45.67,0:56:48.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being regarded as just a book of myths.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.87,0:56:51.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The divinity of Christ was being challenged,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.27,0:56:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the gospel message of salvation
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.20,0:56:56.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through faith in Christ alone was being downgraded.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:02.20,0:57:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon urged his own Baptist denomination
Dialogue: 0,0:57:04.67,0:57:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a clear statement of belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:06.73,0:57:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they refused.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.47,0:57:11.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of their leaders had become liberal in their theology
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.17,0:57:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and had joined what would become known as
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.00,0:57:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Downgrade Controversy.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:16.40,0:57:19.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Spurgeon it was a nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.00,0:57:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He hated conflict, but he felt compelled to make a stand
Dialogue: 0,0:57:22.10,0:57:25.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against the undermining of the authority of Scripture,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.00,0:57:28.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was fundamental to his evangelical faith.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.13,0:57:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wrote many articles in the magazine he founded,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:30.67,0:57:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Sword and Trowel" pleading for an end to the downgrade.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:34.87,0:57:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to no avail.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:36.33,0:57:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all got very unpleasant with accusations and recriminations
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.93,0:57:42.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flying around all over the place.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.27,0:57:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He felt he had to resign from the Baptist Union
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.40,0:57:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which he did in 1888.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.27,0:57:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) My heart is broken.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.60,0:58:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am in the depths of despair.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.47,0:58:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there anyone who will stand for my Jesus?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:07.53,0:58:16.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am sick, sick at heart, and I am weary.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.43,0:58:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh Lord, let me go.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:20.43,0:58:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give me rest from my labors.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:23.70,0:58:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I cannot go on.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:26.00,0:58:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, I must.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.70,0:58:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as there is breath in me I must.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:39.87,0:58:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, I have been lifted up, yet in your mercy
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.60,0:58:50.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your thorn keeps me low so that I am not a proud man.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:50.67,0:58:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You chasten me in secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:56.27,0:58:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The blackness.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.30,0:59:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one knows the awful blackness
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.93,0:59:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can bare endure it when it comes.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:14.47,0:59:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) The press only added to his woes.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:17.53,0:59:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His short rotund figure gave the cartoonists a field day.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:22.87,0:59:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they were humorous.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.80,0:59:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes they were viciously cruel.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.10,0:59:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They looked for any excuse to ridicule the world's
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.30,0:59:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most famous preacher.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:36.00,0:59:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He used to smoke a cigar on his way to preach,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:38.53,0:59:42.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a doctor of all people told him it was good for his health.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:42.33,0:59:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The press lambasted him for it, and he gave it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:46.13,0:59:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He never smoked a pipe, that was an invention of the media.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:57.70,1:00:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) On the 7th of June 1891,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.57,1:00:03.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Charlie preached as usual at the Tabernacle.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.80,1:00:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I could not but notice how aged he had become
Dialogue: 0,1:00:06.47,1:00:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a few short years.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:09.10,1:00:13.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The troubles had taken their cruel revenge on his body.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:13.40,1:00:17.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I would say lastly is this:
Dialogue: 0,1:00:17.47,1:00:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How I long that you who have not yet enlisted
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.13,1:00:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my Lord's band would come to Him
Dialogue: 0,1:00:24.87,1:00:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you see what a kind and gracious Lord He is.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:30.03,1:00:34.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Young men, if you could see our Captain,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:34.23,1:00:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would get down on your knees
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.77,1:00:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and beg Him to let you enter the ranks of those who follow Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:41.33,1:00:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is heaven to serve Jesus.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:45.57,1:00:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am His recruiting sergeant
Dialogue: 0,1:00:48.47,1:00:53.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how I long to find a few recruits at this moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:53.50,1:00:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) How my heart went out to him.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:56.77,1:00:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would have broken if I but knew this was to be
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.07,1:01:06.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his last sermon after 40 years - 40 glorious years.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.50,1:01:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These forty years and more have I served Him,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:09.10,1:01:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,blessed be His name!
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.40,1:01:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have had nothing but love from Him.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:15.57,1:01:20.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would be glad to serve him another forty years.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.37,1:01:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His service is life, peace, joy.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.40,1:01:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, that you would enlist under the banner of Christ
Dialogue: 0,1:01:32.50,1:01:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this very day.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:35.90,1:01:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:44.37,1:01:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) In less than a month my dear Charlie was barely conscious.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.47,1:01:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His kidneys were painfully inflamed,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:51.50,1:01:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a condition called Bright's disease.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.70,1:01:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All this to add to the excruciating pain of his gout.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:59.37,1:02:04.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet I never heard him utter one word of complaint or self pity.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:04.23,1:02:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh wifie, will you read to me the shepherd psalm.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:15.67,1:02:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) I felt he had but a few months of life in him.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:20.67,1:02:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All across the land people were praying for him.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.87,1:02:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The newspapers were now generous
Dialogue: 0,1:02:26.60,1:02:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with their daily reports of his progress.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.87,1:02:31.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was not good.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:36.73,1:02:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the many letters of support
Dialogue: 0,1:02:39.17,1:02:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one addressed to me showed the high esteem
Dialogue: 0,1:02:41.27,1:02:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which Charlie was held:
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.97,1:02:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Gladstone) Dear Madam, In my own house,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.77,1:02:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,darkened at the present time,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:49.80,1:02:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have read with sad interest the daily accounts
Dialogue: 0,1:02:52.83,1:02:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Mr. Spurgeon's illness
Dialogue: 0,1:02:55.27,1:02:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I cannot help conveying to you
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.13,1:02:59.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the earnest assurance of my sympathy
Dialogue: 0,1:02:59.93,1:03:02.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of my cordial admiration,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:02.03,1:03:04.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not only of his splendid powers,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:04.13,1:03:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still more of his devoted and unfailing character.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:08.87,1:03:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,May I humbly commend you and him to the infinite stores
Dialogue: 0,1:03:12.33,1:03:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the divine love and mercy, and subscribe myself,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:16.60,1:03:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Faithfully yours, W. E. Gladstone.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:20.90,1:03:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Susannah) It was from the Prime Minister.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.53,1:03:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Two months later and having regained some strength,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:32.33,1:03:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon returned to his beloved Mentone,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:35.77,1:03:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this time under his doctor's orders
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.07,1:03:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had prescribed an extended period of convalescence.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:44.30,1:03:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His friend and secretary Joseph Harrald went with him
Dialogue: 0,1:03:47.33,1:03:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the first time, Susannah.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:50.37,1:03:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was to be their last few months together -
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.37,1:03:54.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they made the most of it.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:58.17,1:04:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the end of January 1892, his health had worsened.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:05.07,1:04:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh wifie, we have had such a blessed time.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.47,1:04:16.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,God is faithful, so faithful.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:16.90,1:04:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took me, a short fat man from my beloved fenlands
Dialogue: 0,1:04:23.27,1:04:27.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and made me a preacher of His word -
Dialogue: 0,1:04:27.13,1:04:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His glorious, precious, wonderful word.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:33.67,1:04:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a Savior we have; and He gave me you, my precious wifie,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.97,1:04:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my dear precious wifie.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:47.60,1:04:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And He gave me you, Charlie, you dear adorable man.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:56.47,1:05:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, God has been good to us.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:04.50,1:05:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now you must rest my love, rest, and be at peace.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:49.63,1:05:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Presenter) Shortly after his death Joseph Harrald saw what he insisted
Dialogue: 0,1:05:54.03,1:05:57.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been angels above the hills of Mentone,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:57.40,1:05:59.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waiting to take Spurgeon home.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:03.43,1:06:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spurgeon's death was headline news
Dialogue: 0,1:06:05.43,1:06:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the national papers.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:08.60,1:06:11.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among the many tributes and messages of sympathy
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.27,1:06:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one from the future king and queen,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:13.47,1:06:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Edward and Alexandra.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:17.03,1:06:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The funeral was almost a state occasion.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:20.07,1:06:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along the route from the Metropolitan Tabernacle
Dialogue: 0,1:06:22.40,1:06:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the cemetery at West Norwood,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:24.40,1:06:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shops and public houses closed.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:30.40,1:06:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the untimely age of 57
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.20,1:06:36.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the People's Preacher was being laid to rest.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:43.10,1:06:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In his lifetime he had preached to over 10 million people.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:46.47,1:06:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in his death, through his published writings
Dialogue: 0,1:06:49.00,1:06:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his sermons, he has spoken and he still speaks
Dialogue: 0,1:06:51.97,1:06:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to countless millions across the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:54.80,1:06:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more than that, it can be said
Dialogue: 0,1:06:57.30,1:07:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that his stand against the downgrade that cost him so much,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:01.13,1:07:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stopped the churches in Britain
Dialogue: 0,1:07:02.57,1:07:05.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from falling into liberalism and unbelief
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.13,1:07:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as happened elsewhere in Europe.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:07.50,1:07:10.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps today's evangelical Christians owe more
Dialogue: 0,1:07:10.03,1:07:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they realize to this boy preacher,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:12.90,1:07:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this people's preacher from the fens.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:20.67,1:07:24.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Spurgeon) My life seems to me like a fairy dream.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:24.80,1:07:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am often both amazed and dazed
Dialogue: 0,1:07:27.73,1:07:30.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with its mercies and its love.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:30.77,1:07:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How good God has been to me!
Dialogue: 0,1:07:34.57,1:07:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to think that I should sing among the saints above
Dialogue: 0,1:07:37.83,1:07:39.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as loudly as any,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.80,1:07:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for I owe so much to the grace of God
Dialogue: 0,1:07:43.37,1:07:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I said so once in a sermon, long ago:
Dialogue: 0,1:07:49.00,1:07:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Then loudest of the crowd I'll sing,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:52.87,1:07:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"While Heaven's resounding mansions ring,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:56.03,1:07:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With shouts of sovereign grace."