Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Preacher, Author, Philanthropist - With Anecdotal Reminiscences (1892) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: textit{REMINISCENCES OF WATERBEACH. I. The Village And Its Surroundings. A S the village in which Mr. Spurgeon com- textit{-" - menced his pastoral career, Waterbeach seemed to be worthy of a special visit, so that when the opportunity occurred I undertook the journey. The parish lies about five miles north of Cambridge, the soil is remarkably rich, and on leaving the station the tourist will not fail to observe the tokens of more than average prosperity everywhere manifest; while the magnificent dome of sky presents that aspect of immensity which is particularly noticeable on great level areas such as the Cambridgeshire flats and the neighbouring fens. At the last census the population had been put down at sixteen hundred and nineteen, and one might despair of finding a more comfortable agricultural settlement. The in habitants eat the fruits of their luxuriant marshes while sitting beneath their own vines andfig trees; for, instead of belonging to one domineering autocrat, the land is divided into small proprietorships. The people are, consequently, as remarkable for their independence in religious matters as they are for their Liberalism in politics. They are an honest, hospitable folk, always ready to entertain a stranger, and while characterised by hereditary prejudices, know only of two hemispheres Waterbeach and Mark Lane. Their prejudices are going one by one. The open sewer, for example, which formerly crossed and fumigated the village, has been covered over, though the older " Conservatives " battled bravely on behalf of a venerable institution; and a smithy, black and begrimed, still defiling the middle of the " Green," was said to be already doomed. Nonconformity was everywhere in the ascendant, and the vicar, who was a decided Evangelical, appeared to lead the...

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Imprint:	Kessinger Publishing Co
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Authors:	Godfrey Holden Pike
Introduction by:	William Cleaver Wilkinson
Contributors:	James C. Fernald
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	412
ISBN-13:	978-1-120-70392-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	1-120-70392-1
Barcode:	9781120703927

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