Life of Charles G. Finney
A. M. Hills · Evangelist, Reformer, and Theologian
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Life of Charles G. Finney by A. M. Hills
Written in 1902 by A. M. Hills, then president of Texas Holiness University, this compact biography traces the life of revivalist Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) from his unlikely beginnings as a small-town lawyer with an ungodly upbringing, through his dramatic conversion in the fall of 1821, into the revivals he led across the towns of western New York — Antwerp, Gouverneur, Western, Rome, Utica, Auburn, Troy, and New Lebanon — and on to New York City, his long labors at Oberlin College, two preaching tours of England and Scotland, and his teaching on preachers and preaching, on Freemasonry, and on Christian sanctification. Hills, writing “from the standpoint of holiness” and drawing on Finney’s own Memoirs and Professor G. F. Wright’s Life of Finney, quotes Finney extensively in his own words throughout. This UECF.NET web edition follows the source text in full and preserves its chapter order, headings, and the wording of its extensive quotations from Finney himself.
- 18 Chapters
- 1 Preface
- 117 source pages
- 66,645 words
- ≈ 303 min read
- English
Source: Life of Charles G. Finney, by A. M. Hills (Texas Holiness University), first published in 1902 by Martin Wells Knapp’s Revivalist Office/God’s Revivalist Press, Cincinnati — a public-domain biography of Finney (1792–1875), now over a century old. This UECF.NET edition follows the source text in full; chapter divisions, headings and Finney’s own quoted words are reproduced as in the original. (UECF.NET was separately asked about a different, modern, copyrighted 1999 biography of Finney also titled “Apostle of Revival” by Bonnie C. Harvey (Barbour Publishing) — that book remains under copyright and is not reproduced here or anywhere on this site.)
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Table of Contents
Front Matter
·PrefacePart 1: A Man Sent of God
ISent of GodIIHis ConversionIIIStudying TheologyIVBeginning His MinistryPart 2: The Western New York Revivals
VRevivals at Antwerp, "Sodom," Gouverneur, and DekalbVIRevivals at Western, Rome, Utica, Auburn, Troy, and New LebanonVIIMinisterial Opposition and the New Lebanon ConventionVIIIRevivals at Stephentown, Wilmington, Philadelphia, and Reading -- 1827-1830IXRevivals in Columbia, New York City, Rochester, Auburn, Buffalo, Providence, and Boston -- 1830-1832Part 3: New York, Oberlin, and Renewed Power
XLabors in New York City, 1832-1835 -- Trip to Italy -- Revival Lectures -- OberlinXIEarly Labors in OberlinXIIRevivals in Boston -- Providence -- Rochester, and Again in Boston, 1842-1844XIIIFirst Visit to England -- Revivals in Hartford, Western, Syracuse and RochesterXIVRevivals in Boston -- England -- Scotland, and Oberlin -- Close of His LifePart 4: Finney's Legacy and Teaching
XVFinney on Preachers and PreachingXVIFinney on FreemasonryXVIIThe Estimate of Finney Made by Others -- Finney as a TheologianXVIIIFinney on Sanctification and Its Results in Oberlin College History -- Closing PicturesBack Matter
·About Charles FinneyAbout Charles Finney
Charles Grandison Finney (1792–1875) was the leading evangelist of America’s Second Great Awakening, whose revivals in western New York, New York City, England, and Scotland — and whose long ministry as professor and president of Oberlin College — reshaped American revivalism and evangelical theology.