c.1880's C. H. SPURGEON. Victorian Lithographed Cigarette Card on God's Gift of Tobacco! Hymns History of the Welsh Baptists

History of the Welsh Baptists

Ebenezer Eaton

Patrik Gillespie

an important piece of Baptist history

c.1880's C. H. SPURGEON. Victorian Lithographed Cigarette Card on God's Gift of Tobacco! Hymns History of the Welsh BaptistsAn especially fine example of C. H. Spurgeon's iconic "Player's Cigarettes" card. Spurgeon found himself in regular controversy and misunderstanding over the issue of tobacco. He himself smoked cigars and regularly received them as presents. When George F. Pentecost, an America and anti tobacconist, preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, without thought of the cultural context he spent a fair moment waxing hot against smoking. Spurgeon went to the