The Prince of Preachers

Education is a process of facilitating learning through teaching which is done by the teachers for the students. There are many methods in teaching such as storytelling, discussion, training, and directed research. Many people were depraved from having education. Some desired to study in order to improve status and in order for them to have the confidence to face people.I am a believer of education. That through educating oneself, we can learn and interact with others. Yet there are some people who excel though they were uneducated and one of them was Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 

Spurgeon was born in England on June 19, 1834. He was a reformed baptist.  His formal education was limited, even by nineteenth-century standards: he attended local schools for a few years but never earned a university degree. He lived in Cambridge for a time, where he combined the roles of scholar and teaching assistant and was briefly tutored in Greek. Though he avoid formal education, all his life he valued learning and books—especially those by Puritan divines—and his personal library eventually exceeded 12,000 volumes. He was known as the "Prince of Preachers." He had preached nearly 3,600 sermons. He produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His messages to be among the best in Christian literature. It was on October 7, 1857 when he preached to the largest crowd ever at the Crystal  Palace in London and at the same year, a galleries worked man were converted after hearing his loud voice. He pastored Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, which is the largest church. Usually, he never gave altar calls at the conclusion of his sermons, but he always extended the invitation. He brought note card with an outline sketch in the pulpit. His weekly sermons were sold for money. And their congregation sung in acappella. In addition, he as well pastored at the Baptist Church at Water beach, Cambridge Shire. He was a Sunday school teacher, where he published his first literary work which is a Gospel tract in 1879. Moreover, he founded the Charity Organizations called "Spurgeon's and works globally" and Stock Well Orphanage which became Spurgeon's Child Care opened for boys and girls. Also, he was a prolific author. His types of works including sermons, autobiography, commentaries, and books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry and hymns. He published 49 volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions and a hymn book called "The Rivulet" and a new collection of worship songs in 1866 called "Our Own Hymn Book."

I have seen in Spurgeon's biography that he ostracized education yet it was indicated based on my research that he loved to read most especially the Puritan teachings. He do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist but his creed was Jesus Christ. I am inspired with his life. Though I may gain bachelor degree unlike Charles yet I do not know if I can do things that he had done. He was used by God and I believe that the Lord will use me as well depending of what desire or holy discontent He implant in me. But same with him, I would love to have orphanage too. Catering and helping to have healing for those who are sexually abused, abandoned and broken people.