Show I S T Mr Spurgeons Spurgeon's Work I In person Mr Spurgeon was short hand band handsome thick st with a a face by no means some lome and sst markedly English in typo type Buthe Duthe But Dut that rendered him he had kindly manners who knew him to those very agreeable had t accomplished so 0 much Though h ho he 81 labor In his life Ie he be has bas been for tor forty years a frequent sufferer from rheumatism 0 troubled both his father fathel a disease which hi and grandfather In recent since bo he bad had had much years has health much of his parochial work i been undertaken by Mrs Spurgeon who isI isa Is Isa a devoted unselfish woman with a 0 pleasant pleas ples I ant faco face and voice that win her ber friends friend everywhere She is a ministering anjel angel In every among the tho poor of the tho great city respect sho she has proved herself bersel a 0 worthy helpmeet for tor the tho great preacher Their Thedr twin sons theIr sons their only children are both engaged In the tho ministry Ire He Ho declined as many as a a score of ot and to lecture throughout Europe America tons at fabulous prices because he be explained ho he was not a 0 lecturer and sad did not want the tho money and he ho preferred to t work In his hi own way among his lila own people In London When an on American lecture agency offered him recently 1000 for every evelY lecture and to pay all al the expenses of himself and his hi wife wio and a I secretary ry from London to t America on a great leat lecture the thu tempting offer that tour and hold bold out he could make 00 Mr Spurgeon de declined de it He Ho said he ho could do better bettor He would stay in in London and and try and save fifty souls Connected with his church outgrowths of its energies are the pastors' pastors cole college e efrom from which several hundred of young men have been sent out as ministers and an orpha orphanage which was begun begun at the in instance instance instance in- in stance ago of a lady Indy friend who sent Mr Spurgeon Spurgeon Spur Spur- pur geon a 0 check for with which to tobe be begin ln It i. i About BOO orphans are aro fed lodged clothed and educated In this Other institutions connected with wih the tho tabernacle are a 0 association tion ton alms alias ais house for aged women mission missionary Il ary stations Sunday schools a 0 mission to t the tho blind ladies' ladies benevolent and maternal matorna societies and many others With Wih the exception exception exception ex ex- ex- ex of ol Mr MI Gladstone ho he received the to largest mail mai of ot any man In the tho three king kiny- doms dom A great many of ot his letters from sailors from s soldiers from poor fellows whom hom ho bad had managed to help out of he gutter uttel were wele simply simply addressed Spurgeon on En England land To those these he ho replied cheerfully and andas was as always ready to give Kive advice Nor wis this all al Ho gave freely of hi his money In fact be he was was a 0 poor man than If I it It had bad not been for the kindness of his congregation con con- ho wo would ld have havo been penniless D |