Charles Haddon Spurgeon was one of the outstanding personalities of the Victorian era. He was one of the few ministers who had a world-wide audience—a preacher who had only to whisper to be heard of all men. His life and work are one of the cherished possessions of the scattered English speaking peoples and is a living link which binds many of them together throughout the length and breadth of the earth. It is safe to say that when the history of the wonderful nineteenth century comes to be written, Spurgeon will stand out as one of the most forceful individuals that England has ever seen. Although he passed away as long ago as the year 1892, yet he still lives in the admiring remembrances of multitudes who heard him. Many of his contemporaries are dead, and although the number of those who came under his spell is daily diminishing, there is no need to fear that Spurgeon is becoming a back number or a fading memory. He will live as long as England lives, because he so laboured and wrought during his all too brief lifetime, as to keep the soul of England alive.