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Study Section 9: Heroes between the 1830- 1898

9.1 Connect.

Serving God is NOT EASY! Once you declare the truths of God’s Word to people, you can expect
opposition. Satan does not want people to hear the Gospel, so he will use people, even people
in the church, to oppose you and try to silence you. The people we are going to learn about
today went through great struggles as they shared their faith. They endured great hardship and
testing. But they were faithful to the end, and God used them to change the course of history.
Let’s learn about some more heroes of the faith…..

9.2 Objectives.

1. The student should be able to see how God used Charles Spurgeon to preach the Gospel to
thousands, but was opposed by his own denomination for standing for the faith.

2. The student should be able to describe the life of Harriet Tugman, who was so hated, her
enemies put a price tag on her life. She was responsible for freeing hundreds of slaves in America.

3. The student should be able to describe the life of Corrie ten Boom, who sheltered Jews from the Nazi regime
and who ended up in a concentration camp.

9.3 Charles Spurgeon 1834 – 1892 by Harry C. Howard

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/pastorsandpreachers/charles-spurgeon.html

When Charles Spurgeon died in January 1892, London went into mourning. Nearly 60,000
people came to pay homage during the three days his body lay in state at the Metropolitan
Tabernacle. Some 100,000 lined the streets as a funeral parade two miles long followed
his hearse from the Tabernacle to the cemetery. Flags flew at half-staff and shops and
pubs were closed.

All this for a Victorian minister—who also happened to be the most extraordinary preacher
of his day.

Calvinist Baptist
Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, to a family of clerics. His father and grandfather were Nonconformist
ministers (meaning they weren't Anglicans), and Spurgeon's earliest memories were of looking at the pictures
in Pilgrim's Progress and Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

His formal education was limited, even by nineteenth-century standards: he attended local schools for a few
years but never earned a university degree. He lived in Cambridge for a time, where he combined the roles of
scholar and teaching assistant and was briefly tutored in Greek. Though he eschewed formal education, all his
life he valued learning and books—especially those by Puritan divines—and his personal library eventually
exceeded 12,000 volumes.

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