Charles Spurgeon on Revival

Charles Spurgeon, the Prince of Preachers, pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle for 38 years, and spent many of those years in a state of powerful revival. Multitudes came from all over the world to hear him speak. His average Sunday morning services hosted up to six thousand people listening intently to the Word of the Lord. While it is fairly common today to see churches of thousands, in some places there seems to be one on every street corner, back in Spurgeon’s day, it was nothing short of miraculous. Even the some of most impactful revivals in history which took place after Spurgeon’s death, like the Azusa Street Revival and the Welsh Revival, never saw crowds so large in a single meeting. When most people think of revival, they tend to have in mind miracles, signs and wonders, and supernatural moves of the Holy Spirit. However, Charles Spurgeon lived before the Pentecostal movement where these things became the norm, and did not live in the United States, so he did not experience