Introduction

Over 38 years of pastoral ministry at New Park Street Chapel, later to become the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Charles Spurgeon and the Church added nearly 14,000 people into membership. Of that number, 10,063 or 73% were taken into membership through baptism. The rest, through transfer and by profession, 20% and 7% respectively. In one generation, over 10,000 were brought into the local Church through baptism. Can you imagine? Burning disgrace.