Charles Spurgeon, 1834-1892, was the foremost preacher of the 19th century. Spurgeon’s congregation built The Metropolitan Tabernacle (1861); in that same year Spurgeon preached at London’s Crystal Palace to a congregation of 23,654 without microphone or any other means of amplification. Charles Haddon Spurgeon is history’s most widely read preacher. Today, there are more available materials written by Spurgeon than by any other Christian author; living or dead.
Spurgeon’s Sermons collected fill 63 volumes; they have been translated into more than 20 languages. During his lifetime, Spurgeon is estimated to have preached to 10,000,000 people in total. The sermons of Charles Haddon Spurgeon continue to influence people around the world.