On display in a custom-made rotating display case is a galley proof sermon on Genesis 22:14 of Charles H. Spurgeon originally delivered on October 12, 1884. “Galley proof” is a term that originated in the mid-seventeenth century, when printers would set pages into metal trays in order to line them up for typesetting; after typesetting, a small number of copies could then be used for proofreading. Spurgeon did not preach from a full manuscript and was not known to bring extension notes into his pulpit. His sermons were transcribed after he delivered it at the Metropolitan Tabernacle and subsequently prepared for publication in the pages of the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit as well as newspapers around the world. While Spurgeon was known to make editorial corrections using purple ink on several of messages, this galley proof is mostly clean of marginalia notations.
