Charles Spurgeon: Vulgar ?

Some quotes about Spurgeon's preaching by Lewis Drummond (see below) that I came across today when I was searching for this quote:

Spurgeon once described his approach to preaching by saying, "I take my text and make a bee-line to the cross." He burned with a desire to preach the Good News and see people won to faith in Jesus Christ. Spurgeon declared that "Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of the covenant of grace."

Spurgeon saw the value of preaching to the common people in their own language and in a way that captivated their interest. He well understood the sophistication of the Established Church and its irrelevance to his own social setting. One editorial cartoon depicted an Anglican rector driving an old stagecoach with two slow horses — named "Church" and "State." Racing ahead, however, is a young preacher with flowing hair, speeding on a locomotive engine. The title of the second cleric's locomotive? "The Spurgeon," of course, likening his preaching to the new steam engines; exciting and risky, but infinitely superior to the old mode of transportation. 

Even British evangelicalism tended to be an upper-middle-class institution. With his "vulgar" style, however, Spurgeon spoke to the people of the street. Actually, Spurgeon's church became known as a "church of shopkeepers," but the criticism still mounted. Spurgeon finally said in exasperation, "Scarcely a Baptist minister of standing will own me." But multitudes came to hear him preach.