The Metropolitan Tabernacle: Its History and Work (Paperback)

Also available in hardback.

Spurgeon's own book, in genial and frequently humorous style, tracing former pastors (with anecdotes not to be found in formal histories), and including the founding of the various institutions such as the orphanage. Interesting comments are included on the Tabernacle method of government. Many engravings.

Contents:

Preface
1. Earliest Time
2. The First Two Pastors
3. Benjamin Stinton
4. John Gill
5. John Rippon
6. Deacon William Lepard
7. Three Short Pastorates
8. C H Spurgeon
9. “Father” Olney
10. Internal Condition in 1869
11. The Almshouses
12. The Pastors’ College
13. The Stockwell Orphanage
14. The Colportage Association
15. Other Institutions Connected with the Tabernacle