INTRODUCTORY.^E first introduce the preacher as he was when, in early manhood, both his manner and matter startled England out fA her reverie, and awoke many sleepers on distant shores. A Bristol college man gives us four pen pictures of Mr. Spurgeon, taken a quarter of a century ago, and kept ever since in the album of memory. To those who did not see the Evangelist-pastor in his younger days, these photographs will be full of interest; to those who have neither heard nor seen him, they present the man in early life in all the vigor and power of fresh manhood. After seeing a picture, we become interested in the subject and present our inquiries. The antecedents of Mr. Spurgeon, and his subsequent history, will be given later on. Remember, the pictures are those of a very young man, whose career had already been watched for some time with absorbing interest by millions of people. Thus the college man writes: -It was from the lips of my tutor, who was an earnest Christian man as wTable of Contents CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; INTRODUCTORY; Four Pen Pictures - The Whitfield of the Nineteenth Century - Second Photograph - Third Photograph - Last Photograph - Letter to his Uncle - Glorying in Grace - " The Boy is Father to the Man" - A Great Statesman - Youth and Old Age - Middle Life - " All my Springs are in Thee" - Pastor James H Brookes - Mr Spurgeon in the Dingy Chapel - His Prayer - The Sermon - "Thank God for Spurgeon ! " - A Flash of Genius - Sensational Preachers - Mr Spurgeon is a Manly Man - Herculean Labors - Dr Chalmers - A Living Man - Bishop Nicholson- A Pastor's Testimony - A Many-sided Man - Mr Spurgeon's Personal History - Motives in this Work - Mr Spurgeon's Example - Teaching of the Great Preacher - The Bible- Business Men who need a Book - Wit and Homely Wisdom - "A Labor of Love "; CHAPTER II; ANCESTRY, PARENTAGE, BIRTH; History of Mr Spurgeon to his Forty-third Birthday - Ances