A HISTORY OF SURREY 



It still has many adherents in the neighbourhood, and there is a church 

 built by Mr. Drummond. 



The other movement was owing to the natural talents of Mr. 

 Spurgeon, who became minister of the New Park Street Baptist Chapel, 

 Southwark, in 1854. His audiences soon became so large that the Surrey 

 Gardens were used as a place for his preaching. In 1861 the Metro- 

 politan Tabernacle was opened near Newington Causeway, and became 

 the centre of a great deal of religious and philanthropic work which still 

 continues. Mr. Spurgeon died in 1892. He had really made a sect of 

 his own. Whereas the Calvinism in which Irving had been educated 

 found its ultimate development in a movement which might well have 

 been absorbed into that of the Tractarians had they been ten years earlier 

 in their appearance, the Calvinism of Mr. Spurgeon was of the robust 

 early type, and he quitted the Baptist Union in 1887 because they were 

 not sound in their Calvinist doctrine. Shortly afterwards he left the 

 Liberation Society, probably from sympathy with the evangelical clergy 

 of the Church in their opposition to the critical spirit of modern learning. 

 The success of Mr. Spurgeon was to some extent local. The great lower 

 middle class population of the Surrey suburbs furnished an ideal audience 

 for his somewhat unconventional eloquence, inspired as it was by imper- 

 turbable conviction and by complete confidence in the final judgment of 

 John Calvin in all points of controversy and criticism. 



The church development in rural Surrey has also been influenced by 

 local conditions. The great number of new ecclesiastical districts, with 

 handsome and endowed churches, would never hWe existed but for the 

 nineteenth century taste for beautiful scenery, which hat\made Surrey the 

 favourite abode of rich men, who have both gathered together and provided 

 for thevarious needs of a newpopulation in their respective ij/^ighlDOiffhoods. 



APPENDIX No. : 

 A list of institutions, etc., selected to show all the deprivations 

 and resignations for religious opinions recoverable in the county of 

 Surrey during the reigns of Edward VI., Mary and the beginning of 

 Elizabeth, with the addition of other parishes in which there appears a 

 significant absence of change : — 



Addington. — Thomas Berington was deprived in 1551 for refusing to pay his tenths 

 to the king.* His is clearly a case of a man who had or developed objections to 

 one feature of the royal supremacy. 



Alfold. — ^John Pell was instituted on the deprivation of Antony Lisley, 19 June, 1554.' 

 Thomas Tristram, instituted by Bishop White in February, 1559,* just at the end 

 of his episcopate, after it was clear that now or never the Romanist party must 

 make a stand, and when White would surely be anxious to institute only men of 

 his own way of thinking. He nevertheless went on undisturbed under Elizabeth. 



Ash. — Thomas Whitehede was instituted to the rectory de iure notorie vacante in 1554.* 



Bansted.— John Moysse was instituted on the deprivation of Miles Braghwate in May 

 1554.0 



Battersea.— William Gray was instituted 10 March, 1562, after the resignation of 

 an incumbent put in under Elizabeth after a previous death vacancy." 



! ^.'°'°° ^r- ^^S-' ^"J^""' ^^- ' ^^''^- Gardiner, 9b. » Ibid. White, i+a 



Ibid. Gardiner, 9. s i^id 9. « jbid. Home, 4b. 



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