Charles Haddon Spurgeon occupied a unique position among preachers of his era for more than thirty years. He delighted to speak of his conversion in a Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester on Sunday morning, December 15th, 1850 from the text �Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth�. C.H. Spurgeon later wrote, �Oh, I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away, and in heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable�. His spoken and his written ministry have proved to be, in the language which he often used, �like apples of gold in pictures of silver�.He was marked by a strong vivid faith and large hearted benevolence