The Metropolitan Tabernacle
Charles Spurgeon's ancestors were Huguenots. He was converted to Christ at the age of sixteen and immediately began preaching. He preached in the streets and in the fields before he was twenty-one. In his first church, he began with 100 members. It grew until he was preaching to 10,000 people in the Surrey Music Hall. His church, the Metropolitan Tabernacle, seated 6,000 people.
Before his death, he published more than 2,000 sermons and forty-nine volumes of commentaries, sayings, anecdotes, illustrations, and devotions. Dr. Chappell was able to meet with Dr. Peter Masters, the current pastor of of Spurgeon’s Metropolitan Tabernacle.