Lord, make us ambitious!

It would have been in the late 1880s, when the ministry of C. H. Spurgeon was drawing to a close, that a Dubliner by the name of Hugh Dunlop Brown (1858–1918) attended worship at Spurgeon’s Tabernacle with a few thousand other men and women and children.

History Professor Michael Haykin

As Spurgeon came to preach he caught sight of Brown in the congregation and immediately exclaimed: ‘I see my friend Brown from Dublin; will he please come round and help me.’ One can well imagine that it was a rare occasion for Spurgeon to invite a man out of the vast audiences that attended on his preaching to help him in the pulpit. But then Hugh Brown was a remarkable man, though I dare say his name has been forgotten a little over a century since his stepping into heaven.