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# In the Spurgeonic tradition
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/2005122in-the-spurgeonic-tradition-html/
- Published: 2005-01-22T19:03:12.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:35:05.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Faith, #DashHouseCom, #wp

About a month ago, I was reading a sermon by [Charles Spurgeon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FSpurgeon?ref=dashhouse.com), 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](http://www.reformedreader.org/spurgeon/mhrsg.htm?ref=dashhouse.com):

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