Boreham on Spurgeon.

A great age produces great men, and, by the very men that it produces, is made greater. The annals of the Victorian era glitter, like a stary sky, with brilliant and illustrious names. They were giants in those days.

But among those Homeric figures there was scarcely one upon whom Mr. Spurgeon did not exercise a profound and formative influence. A king-maker occupies a more exalted eminence than a king. And in that age of crisis and of transformation there were many kingly spirits who gratefully confessed that, but for Mr. Spurgeon's ministry - in public or in private - their own contribution to the nations' astonishing development would have been negligible.

- F. W. Boreham