Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Interesting comments by C. H. Spurgeon, though probably not to be taken entirely at face-value.
MR SPURGEON A PRESBYTERIAN. – At a social meeting held last week, in London, in connection with the opening of a United Presbyterian Church in Clapham – an edifice which has cost £10,000 – Mr Spurgeon, who was present, delivered an address, in the course of which he made the following emphatic statement. We quote from the report in the Weekly Review:- “He rejoiced that this was a Presbyterian Church; he was a Presbyterian himself. (Hear, and laughter.) Seriously and solemnly, he believed Presbyterianism to be the government Scripture had ordained. He was not an Independent, and he objected altogether to be classed with Independents. He was Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Independent; but rather more Presbyterian than Independent. It might well be that churches should be separate and distinct; but he believed that it was loss of power to the denomination to which he belonged, which might have done greater things if it had not been foolish enough to bind itself to isolation, instead of working by that hearty co-operation which the Presbyterian form of government would have afforded.”
Ballymena Observer, 15 Nov. 1862.
MR SPURGEON A PRESBYTERIAN. – At a social meeting held last week, in London, in connection with the opening of a United Presbyterian Church in Clapham – an edifice which has cost £10,000 – Mr Spurgeon, who was present, delivered an address, in the course of which he made the following emphatic statement. We quote from the report in the Weekly Review:- “He rejoiced that this was a Presbyterian Church; he was a Presbyterian himself. (Hear, and laughter.) Seriously and solemnly, he believed Presbyterianism to be the government Scripture had ordained. He was not an Independent, and he objected altogether to be classed with Independents. He was Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Independent; but rather more Presbyterian than Independent. It might well be that churches should be separate and distinct; but he believed that it was loss of power to the denomination to which he belonged, which might have done greater things if it had not been foolish enough to bind itself to isolation, instead of working by that hearty co-operation which the Presbyterian form of government would have afforded.”
Ballymena Observer, 15 Nov. 1862.