Lectures on Revivals of Religion: 30 (John Harvard Library) - Hardcover

Finney, Charles Grandison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674333918 ISBN 13: 9780674333918

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1960

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a * scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt ...have our minister here while at the same time they hinder all he can do. If he could, he would tear himself right away, and go where there is no minister, and where the people would be willing to receive the gospel. But there he must stay, though he cannot get the church into a state to have a revival once in, three years, to last three months at a time. It might be well for him to say to the church, Whenever you are determined to take one of these long naps, I wish you to let me know it, so that I can go and labor somewhere else in the mean time, till you are ready to wake again. 3, Many churches cannot be blessed with a revival, because they are spunging out of other churches, and out of the treasury of the Lord, for the support of their minister, when they are abundantly able to support him themselves. Perhaps they are depending on the Home Missionary Society, or on other churches, while they are not exercising any self-denial for the sake of the gospel. I have been amazed to see how some churches live. One church that I was acquainted with, actually confessed that they spent more * for tobacco than they gave for missions. And yet they had no minister, because they were not able to support one. And they have none now. And yet there is one man in that church who is able to support a minister. And still they have no minister, and no preaching. The churches have not been instructed in their duty on this subject. I stopped in one place last summer, where there was no preaching. I inquired of an elder in the church, why it was so, and he said it was because they were so poor. I asked him how much he was worth. He did not give me a direct answer, but said that another elders income was about 500 a year, and I...

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About the Author

Charles G. Finney (1792-1875) is recognized as the most effective evangelist of the 19th century. It is estimated that more than half a million people were converted to Christ through his evangelistic ministry. After becoming a lawyer he carefully explored the claims of Christ and was powerfully converted in 1821. An avid student of the Bible, he soon engaged in preaching and teaching throughout many eastern and southern states. The result was a revival which altered the course of American history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674333918
• ISBN 13: 9780674333918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 529
• Editor: McLoughlin William G