The Wordless Book is a Christian evangelistic book. Evidence points to it being invented by the famous London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, in a message given on January 11, 1866 to several hundred orphans regarding Psalm 51:7 "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." It is called a "book", as it is usually represented with pages, although it can be shown on a single page or banner.
Open-air preaching in China using the Wordless Book
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was an English Particular Baptist preacher.
Portrait of Spurgeon by Alexander Melville (1885)
Image: C. H. Spurgeon's signature
Spurgeon at age 23.
Staffordshire figurine, c. 1860