in the very best part of the house for seeing or
hearing - We look around that great building
filled to overflowing with earnest intelli
-gent looking people, though mostly of the
working class - convinced me that Spurgeon
was more of a man than it is the fashion
to consider him - I looked up & saw a plain
looking stout young man medium height
in [illegible deletion] black cloth cloak & white cravat -
He has fine teeth, rather fleshy features
but a spirited pleasing expression -
The manner was entirely unaffected
but genuine & effective, the voice as fine
to my ear as I ever heard - He read a
hymn beautifully, in the old fashioned
Methodist style, two lines at a time, in
which all the congregation joined & I
admit that this blending of every variety
of the human voice in a great crowd
like that seems more solemn & more
like worship to me, than when the organ
is played & a few hired performers
however cultivated do their part &