The ministry of Spurgeon was attracting 24,000 a week when the media decided to help the other Charles spread the assumptions of evolution. Some of the cartoons put his head on a monkeys body; I’m not sure how that helped .
The core thoughts of evolution has always sought to undermine Christian faith. It was not only the directness of Spurgeons teaching but also the social ministries. They show a society of neglect of orphan children, and a destruction of families.
Ad hominem is a commonly used method of attack so 1) we shouldn't be surprised when it occurs and 2) we should expect it and be prepared for it.
Spurgeon (1834-1892) is a particularly peculiar and amazing individual in Church history because he stood at the crossroads in dissent of
three, not one, misguided theologies: Theological liberalism, Dispensational Premillennialism, and atheistic anthropology. Spurgeon was stalwart in his assertion of classic, historical, orthodox theology (not merely Reformed thought, doctrine, and practice). The world in which we currently live is a result of those
four influences. Spurgeon was not alone but he was among the most astute, vocal and recognized, especially after his death. Among those who also resisted these heretical viewpoints were AA Hodge, Kuyper, Boyce (James P, not James L), Warfield, and Vos. These guys covered about a century of "orthodox dissent" but the combined influences of Marxism, Darwinism, secular anthropology (to include Freud, Durkheim, Weber, and others), secular Existentialism, and apocalypticism (Dispensational Premillennialism is simply a particular theological kind of apocalypticism) were pretty powerful. It is really an amazing period of time in world (not just western) history.
