Lawrence Journal World in Lawrence, Kansas

Anecdote of Spurgeon on His Early Pulpit Years

The London preacher Mr Spurgeon, celebrating his fiftieth birthday, began preaching as a boy. An anecdote recalls him likening a gray head to a crown of glory, while proving his blunt tongue and self reliance. After the service Mr Brown praised the sermon yet called him the sauciest dog to bark in a pulpit, and they remained friends.