Charles G. Finney

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61.) Letters On Revival--No. 5
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another error in the promotion of revivals is a want of such discriminations in the instructions given, as thoroughly to develop the true idea of religion in the mind. I have been astonished and greatly pained, to find how few professors of religion s ...read more

62.) Letters On Revival--No. 6
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another error which has prevailed to some extent, I fear, in the promotion of revivals, has been a kind of preaching that has rather puffed up than humbled and subdued the mind. I mean a kind of preaching which dwells much more on the philosophy of re ...read more

63.) Letters On Revival--No. 7
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST Dear Brethren: Another error which has prevailed to a considerable extent in promoting revivals of religion I apprehend is that of encouraging an unhealthy degree of excitement. Some degree of excitement is inevitable. The truths that must be seen and duly appreciate ...read more

64.) Letters On Revival--No. 8
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Dear Brethren: I have by no means done with the subject of excitement as connected with revivals of religion. In every age of the church, cases have occurred in which persons have had such clear manifestations of divine truth as to prostrate their physical strength ...read more

65.) Letters On Revival--No. 9
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: While upon the subject of excitement I wish to make a few suggestions on the danger that highly excited feelings will take a wrong direction and result in fanaticism. Every one is aware that when the feelings are strongly excited, they are capable of ...read more

66.) Letters On Revival--No. 10
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Dear Brethren: I beg leave to call the attention of the brethren to the danger of revival preachers themselves introducing the spirit of fanaticism. When they meet with great opposition from the church or the world or the ministry, they sometimes indulge in a strain ...read more

67.) Letters On Revival--No. 11
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. Dear Brethren: If I am not entirely mistaken, many excitements that have been supposed to be revivals of religion, have after all had but very little true religion in them. It seems to have been nearly or quite overlooked, that all religion is love. And it is remark ...read more

68.) Letters On Revival--No. 12
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I have yet many things to say on the subject of the appearance of a fanatical spirit, in connexion with revivals. The particular thing to which I would now call the attention of the brethren, is this. There is a class of minds, that in seasons of deep ...read more

69.) Letters On Revival--No. 13
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I am rejoiced to perceive that the inquiry is beginning to agitate the Church. --Why are there not more revivals! as well as why is there character so changed? The inquiry is also made, What can be done to promote them? and to promote them under a des ...read more

70.) Letters On Revival--No. 14
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: I hope my brethren will bear with me, while I further insist on the general delinquency of ministers, especially of late, in regard to revivals. There has been so manifest and so lamentable a falling off from a revival spirit among the ministers of ...read more

71.) Letters On Revival--No. 15
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: Another cause of the decline of revivals, in my estimation is, that a right course has not been pursued with the churches. In some instances they have been urged to labor and visit, and put forth active efforts for the conversion of sinners, while the ...read more

72.) Letters On Revival--No. 16
      TO ALL THE FRIENDS AND ESPECIALLY ALL THE MINISTERS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST: Dear Brethren: Another thing that has acted very injuriously to the interests of revivals of religion is the false views that have prevailed in relation to the best means of promoting them. And in respect to means, if I have not been mistaken, there is a strong tend ...read more

73.) Letters On Revival--No. 17
      THE IMPOLICY OF SPASMODIC EFFORTS [continued in No. 18--Ed.] To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: There is another class of Christians than those to whom I referred in my last, that seem to me to have fallen into an error opposed to that of which I then spoke. This class instead of ...read more

74.) Letters On Revival--No. 18
      THE IMPOLICY OF SPASMODIC EFFORTS [Continued] To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Before I proceed farther on the subject of my last letter, I wish to call the attention of the brethren to an evil, which seems to me to have greatly grieved the Spirit of God, and to be at present a v ...read more

75.) Letters On Revival--No. 19
      HINDRANCES TO A REVIVAL SPIRIT To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another thing that is working an immense evil in the present day is the growing sectarianism of the church. It seems to me that the leading denominations that have heretofore been most zealous and successful in promot ...read more

76.) Letters On Revival--No. 20
      OBJECTIONS TO PROTRACTED MEETINGS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: I designed to have prepared a letter for insertion previous to the one which appeared in the last paper, continuing my remarks on the subject of the use of means to promote revivals. I had said that there were two ...read more

77.) Letters On Revival--No. 21
      HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS. To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: In noticing the hindrances to revivals of religion I must not forget to urge more definitely and strongly than I have hitherto done, the great want of sympathy with Christ in the ministry and in the church. It cannot be expe ...read more

78.) Letters On Revival--No. 22
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: More than ten years since I was led I think by the Spirit of the Lord to perceive that the course of things was tending rapidly towards the decline of revivals. Especially in this respect--there was very little of the right kind of preaching to the ch ...read more

79.) Letters On Revival--No. 23
      THE PERNICIOUS ATTITUDE OF THE CHURCH ON THE REFORMS OF THE AGE. [Pt. 1] To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: There is one subject upon which I must remark further, and yet I fear it will be impossible to do it justice without giving offence. One of the most serious impediments that ...read more