In the Spurgeonic tradition

About a month ago, I was reading a sermon by Charles Spurgeon, one of the greatest preachers of the 1800s. I noticed that the sermon was preached at London’s Crystal Palace. I’d forgotten what that was all about, so I did a bit of research. It turns out that Spurgeon preached to crowds of up to twenty-four thousand people at this venue without a microphone. This led to some articles on his use of various buildings. The decision to use these buildings was not a conventional one:

Objections by the traditional Victorians were, of course, raised from every corner. That would be