When 17-year-old Charles Spurgeon became the pastor of Waterbeach chapel, because the congregation could not afford to pay Spurgeon much, he continued working as a tutor during the week.
He would visit his people in the evenings and on the weekends.
In a short time, the little thatched chapel was crammed, the biggest vagabonds of the village were weeping floods of tears, and those who had been the curse of the parish became its blessing.
