ABSTRACT
Spurgeon's weekly sermons had a normal circulation of 25,000, although that figure was frequently higher, especially upon the occasion of certain topical sermons such as the Mutiny or the death of the Prince Consort. His best-selling single sermon, on "Baptismal Regeneration", sold 350,000 copies when printed as a pamphlet. Spurgeon's sermons were published in forty languages, including Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Maori, Telegu, and Urdu, as well as the major European languages. A common language and a common evangelical tradition have acted as strong links between the United States and Britain, and at no time more than in the nineteenth century. From the eighteen-forties on—with the brief exception of the civil war years—there was a constant exchange of evangelists between the two countries, adding "a cosmopolitan flavor to what had previously-been a provincial institution".
