New Park Street Pulpit Volume 5 · 1859
First Stone of the New Tabernacle
PRECISELY at two o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. SPURGEON, accompanied by Sir MORTON PETO, Bart., M. P., and other friends, ascended the temporary platform erected around the stone; and the proceedings shortly after commenced by singing the hundredth Psalm: — Before Jehovah’s awful throne Ye nations…