C. H. Spurgeon's Autobiography, Vol. 1: The Early Years, 1834-1859

At the age of seventeen, Spurgeon became pastor to a handful of believers at Waterbeach in Cambridgeshire, meeting in what had been a dovecote. Within five years, he had become the best-known minister in London. Two years later, following the Sepoy Mutiny, he conducted a service of national humiliation in the Crystal Palace that was attended by twenty-four thousand people.

But this volume is far from being a record of human fame and success. From his first years of childhood in rural Essex t...