The Life of Charles G. Finney
A. M. Hills · The New York Lawyer Who Became America's Great Revivalist
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The Life of Charles G. Finney by A. M. Hills
A. M. Hills's Life of Charles G. Finney (1902) is a compact, warmly personal biography of Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875), the New York lawyer turned evangelist whose preaching helped ignite the Second Great Awakening. Hills follows Finney from his unconverted years and dramatic 1821 conversion, through his training and early campaigns at Antwerp, “Sodom,” Gouverneur, Dekalb, Western, Rome, Utica, Auburn and Troy; the controversy that produced the New Lebanon Convention; the great city revivals at Stephentown, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Reading, Rochester, New York City, Buffalo, Providence and Boston; his New York City pastorate, his trip to Italy, and his Lectures on Revival; his years of teaching and preaching at Oberlin College and his renewed baptism with the Holy Ghost; two visits to England and Scotland; and Finney's own writing on preachers and preaching, on Freemasonry, and on Christian sanctification. Written “from the standpoint of holiness” and drawing heavily on Finney's own Memoirs and on Professor Wright's Life, this UECF.NET web edition follows the source PDF and preserves its chapter order, headings, dates, quotations and wording.
- 18 Chapters
- 1 Preface
- 117 source pages
- 66,518 words
- ≈ 302 min read
- English
Source: Life of Charles G. Finney, by A. M. Hills, President of Texas Holiness University (Cincinnati: Office of God's Revivalist, 1902; public domain). This web edition reflows the source PDF's text into readable paragraphs and lightly corrects obvious OCR/scanning errors by comparing surrounding text; no content has been added, abridged or invented.