Spurgeon’s Christmas Greetings: Ring the Merry Bell
On Sunday morning December 23, 1860, Charles Spurgeon preached a sermon from Job 1:4-5 that he titled, “A Merry Christmas.” His sons used to go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat...
33 Years of Beauty
Glancing at a few old photographs from our thirty-three years together, I am struck by how beautiful you were then and how much more beautiful you are now. You are still and forever, “O Most Beautiful Among Women.” Beauty—a word often contemplated but...
Spurgeon’s Birthday and Influence Celebrated by the Duchess of York and George W. Truett
In 1934, Winston Churchill, in the midst of his “Wilderness Years,” was six years from becoming Prime Minister, Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats were winning awards in poetry, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge died. However, beyond politics and poetry, the attention...
Charles, Susie and the Crystal Palace.
June 10, 1854, was a day of fanfare in London with the re-opening of the Crystal Palace. The Palace, crafted from iron and glass, was the genius of the famed designer Sir Joseph Paxton and an architectural marvel. It had originally been built at London’s Hyde Park as...
Spurgeon’s Valentine
Fact and fiction are intertwined in the modern recounting of the story of St. Valentine and his surmised connection with romance. However, he is remembered each year on February 14th, a day considered to be a day of love. Valentine’s Day is celebrated with cards,...