1898 C. H. SPURGEON. Strange Artifact from Metropolitan Tabernacle Fire of 1898. Devotion & children

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The Evangelistic Problem by Thomas Cook

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1898 C. H. SPURGEON. Strange Artifact from Metropolitan Tabernacle Fire of 1898. Devotion & childrenThis is one of the oddest little curiosities we have ever handled. Its strangeness is not so much due to its mere existence. During the 19th century, an entire industry of "protestant icons" developed. One could buy Pilgrim's Progress bound in boards from the oak of the original Elstow church, a footstool made from the paneling from Jonathan Edwards' church in Northampton, slices of the tree in Africa under which David Livingstone was buried, etc,. In