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Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Victorian England's best-known Baptist minister, was born on June 19, in Kelvedon, Essex and spent his childhood and early teenage years in Stambourne, Colchester, and Newmarket.
Charles spurgeon biography summary of 10
In he married Susannah Thompson; their only children, twin sons Thomas and Charles, were born on September 20,
Spurgeon had no formal education beyond Newmarket Academy, which he attended from August to June , but he was very well-read in Puritan theology, natural history, and Latin and Victorian literature.
His lack of a college degree was no hindrance to his remarkable preaching career, which began in , when he was only fifteen years old. A few months after his conversion to Christianity, he began preaching at Teversham. The next year, he accepted his first pastorate, at the Baptist Chapel in Waterbeach.
The church quickly grew from fewer than a dozen congregants to more than four hundred, and Spurgeon's reputation as a preacher caught the attention of New Park Street, London's