Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love, MORNING DEVOTIONS WITH THE LIFE OF SUSANNAH SPURGEON

While much is known about Susannah Spurgeon’s famous husband C.H. Spurgeon, comparatively little is known about the woman who supported the great preacher through the many years of his long and fruitful ministry at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.

Brought together in a single volume for the first time are two titles that will help to address this imbalance. Mrs. Spurgeon’s A Carillon of Bells consists of twenty-four daily meditations on selected texts of Scripture. Full of spiritual devotion to Christ, her words ring out ‘the old truths of free grace and dying love’ on every page. The Life of Susannah Spurgeon by Charles Ray is an affectionate love story that also supplies a fascinating record of the work of Mrs. Spurgeon’s Book Fund. Many thousands of pastors, preachers, and missionaries were generously helped through this agency. Susannah Spurgeon’s life is also a testimony to the all-sufficient grace of God- in the midst of a debilitating chronic illness she was enabled to do a great work for God. Her inspiring example continues to bear fruit to this day in the work of the Banner of Truth Trust Book Fund.

Publisher: Banner of Truth
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780851519180

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Charles Ray authored a number of books about Spurgeon, including The Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1903), Mrs C. H. Spurgeon (1903) and A Marvellous Minstry: The Story of C. H. Spurgeon s Sermons 1855-1905 (1905). His biography of Mrs Spurgeon is included, with her collection of morning devotions A Carillon of Bells. Susannah Spurgeon was the wife of the famous Baptist preacher of the second half of the nineteenth-century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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I love this book and it has been a great encouragement to me over the years. It is in 19th century language which I don't mind, but if you are not accustomed to it, might be hard. The devotionals being accompanied by the biography really has helped me as I have encountered a lot of difficulty especially related to health issues. Mrs. Spurgeon bears testimony to the way walking through suffering with Jesus gives great joy and endurance. Andrea