The Young Man Who Ducked Into the Chapel on Artillery Street

On January 6, 1850, a fifteen-year-old boy named Charles Spurgeon trudged through a blizzard in Colchester, England. He had been visiting churches for months, searching for something he could not name, growing more skeptical with each disappointing sermon. The snow drove him off his intended route, and he ducked into a tiny Primitive Methodist chapel on Artillery Street — a last resort, not a destination.…