In 1886 he said, “When I am suffering very greatly from gout, if anybody walks heavily and noisily across the room, it gives me pain” ( MTP 49:234). In a letter to his brother he wrote, “I thought a cobra had bitten me and filled my veins with poison” ( Autobiography 3:134). At 35 he was diagnosed with gout, an inflammation of the joints. In 1867 Spurgeon suffered his first attack of chronic nephritis, or Bright’s Disease (kidney inflammation similar to Lupus). In fact, for most of his life Spurgeon nursed deep wounds and struggled to cope with a myriad of emotional and physical maladies. The preacher was anything but bulletproof. Truly, the memory of his ministry has become immortal.īut Spurgeon himself was very much mortal. Peabody, “Spurgeon,” North American Review 86 , 275). American tourists returning from England were greeted with two questions: “Did you see the Queen?’ and ‘Did you hear Spurgeon?’” (A. London’s most cavernous buildings could hardly accommodate his crowds – and one of them even collapsed.
In his twenties, Spurgeon pastored the largest mega-church in Protestant Christendom.
Henry in the foreword to Lewis Drummond, Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers). Henry was right to call Charles Spurgeon “one of evangelical Christianity’s immortals” (Carl.
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