The printed edition closes with two nineteenth-century testimonial letters rather than a twentieth chapter. UECF.NET summarizes their historical context and substance here in our own words; the letters' own text is not reproduced.
The 1984 edition closes with two letters originally published in The Oberlin Evangelist during Finney's lifetime, included to show how his teaching on holiness was received by contemporaries. The first, dated February 1843 and written by an unnamed member of the United States Congress from Washington, D.C., commends Finney's sermons on sanctification as clear, practical, and doctrinally sound, encourages readers to support the Evangelist's circulation, and — in a passage reflecting the political moment — comments at length on the antislavery debates then underway in Congress, including the fight over the House's ‘gag rule’ against antislavery petitions.
The second letter, published in 1844, is from a minister who had once voted to exclude a colleague from a ministerial assembly over that colleague's belief in the attainability of entire sanctification. After several years of wrestling with the question himself — and after reading a sermon on ‘Perfect Love Attainable’ by Oberlin's president Asa Mahan in the Evangelist — the minister changed his conviction, wrote to ask forgiveness of the colleague he had voted against, and committed himself to preach the doctrine of holiness he had previously opposed. Together the two letters were meant to show readers of the original Evangelist series that Finney's teaching reached beyond the pulpit into public life and into the consciences of fellow ministers.