Collection: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 59

Intro to the Sermon of the Week: “Poverty and Riches”

March 30, 2026

On Sunday evening, March 22nd, 1888, Charles Spurgeon entered the pulpit exhausted. He had constant speaking engagements for the last week and was utterly worn out. The Downgrade Controversy continued to loom over his mind as well. It had now been a year since he sounded the alarm on the growing theological liberalization within the Baptist Union. …