Well, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.

On this episode, we are talking about Charles Haddon's Spurgeon's Publisher.

I'm holding in my hands one of the original pamphlets of Spurgeon's sermons that were

printed by Passmore and Alibaster along Patternoster Row in London.

Patternoster Row was synonymous for publishing in Great Britain, and there were the offices

of Passmore and Alibaster.

Joseph Passmore was actually a member of Spurgeon's congregation.

At the time, it was the new Park Street Chapel, and of course would become then Metropolitan

Tabernacle.

And Passmore was not only a member of that congregation, he was a close friend of Spurgeon and he was

a printer.

He teamed up with James Alibaster, who was not Baptist, he was an Anglican, and he was

a publisher, and together they formed their publishing house.

And they were kept very busy by the 3600 sermons that were preached by Charles Haddon's Spurgeon,

and the very first one was printed when he was 20 years old in 1855.

I'm holding a copy of Five sermons preached by Spurgeon.

It is dated August 31st, 1868, and it would have cost you all of six pence, six pennies

when it was first published.

It has five sermons, and the fifth one caught my eye, the faculty baffled the great

physician successful.

It's a sermon, of course, on that beautiful story of the woman who was suffering from

an issue of blood, and she said, if I can only touch the hem of Jesus' garment, I will

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