"Spurgeon, Heir of the Puritans" by Ernest W. Bacon is the biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of our greatest Church leaders. Although he never attended a divinity school, he became one of London's most popular preachers by the age of 21. Greeting crowds of thousands for more than forty years, he was one of the most influential preachers of all time. Not only was he an extraordinary preacher, but he also founded churches, the College of Pastors, Sunday schools and even an orphanage. Spurgeon lived his life from beginning to end in the name of the Lord. Born in June 1934, he came from a lower-middle-class family who were staunch non-conformists. At the age of 18 months, due to "adverse circumstances", he had to stay with his grandparents and his aunt Ann Spurgeon. He lived with them for six impressionable years. His grandfather was Reverend James Spurgeon and was a devout preacher of the gospel. Her grandmother was very sweet and loving. She died with the Bible spread out on her knees, her finger resting on Job 19:21 “The hand of God has touched me.” His aunt Ann took charge of Charles. She was 17 when he came to us. She taught him his letters and also encouraged him with her sense of humor for which he was so remembered in his later years. Charles returned to his loving home at the age of seven. He was very sad to leave his grandparents, but he had two sisters and a brother at home. He remembers his mother influencing him and his siblings. She was very prayerful with him, as well as with his brother and sisters. He said he could never forget how she would kneel with her arms around his neck and pray for him. At a very young age, he had a passion for the word of God. He loved to read and he read his father's collection of books which included the works of the Puritans. He sought true knowledge of God. He was convicted of sin and before he was saved, he said that day and night the hand of God weighed heavily on him. When he slept, he dreamed of his research. He prayed, cried, without the greatness of God's mercy. He went from church to church seeking God, but he felt that the men in the pulpits were not really preaching the Gospel...