A great tabernacle was once built for a great preacher. Such were Charles Haddon Surgeon’s preaching gifts that London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle a structure accommodating 6,000 people? Was built in 1861 just for him. The great orator and preacher continued filling the pews until death thirty years later, while also founding there a pastor’s college and an orphanage, both of which still exist. Rejecting the Congregationalist theology of his father, Spurgeon was baptized as an adult and soon after discovered his God-given gifts in a Baptist pastorate near Cambridge, England. A powerful evangelist with a natural and appealing sense of humour, Spurgeon delivered sermons that are eminently readable today and still, remarkably, in print over a century later. Charles Haddon Spurgeon remains a role model for seminarians and seasoned pastors alike, and an imagined fiery presence in the pulpit through his inspired writings.