Charles G. Finney

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81.) Letters On Revival--No. 25
      THE FOLLY OF ATTEMPTING TO SUSTAIN TRUE RELIGION WITHOUT REVIVALS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another subject on which I wish to address my brethren, is a tendency which I perceive to exist in the public mind towards a conclusion which to me appears little short of downright ...read more

82.) Letters On Revival--No. 26
      THE EMPLOYMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS OF EVANGELISTS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: In connection with this subject I wish to say to my brethren several things in regard to employing Evangelists in promoting revivals. And here I suppose I need not say that such a class of ministe ...read more

83.) Letters On Revival--No. 27
      ON EVANGELISTS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Although the employment of Evangelists to promote revivals is manifestly in accordance with the order of God, and is of great service to the churches yet I have observed that the churches are liable to fall, and in some instances hav ...read more

84.) Letters On Revival--No. 28
      ON THE IMPORTANCE OF LAY LABOR IN THE PROMOTION OF REVIVALS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: In my last letter I dwelt on the errors into which the churches fall in regard to the employment of evangelists, and said that, the Lord willing, in a future number I would state what I re ...read more

85.) Letters On Revival--No. 29
      ON THE RELATIVE POSITION OF EVANGELISTS AND PASTORS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another thing which should be avoided in attempting to promote a revival of religion by calling in the labors of an evangelist is the disturbing of the pastoral relation, or doing anything to weak ...read more

86.) Letters On Revival--No. 30
      REMARKS ON THE DANGERS AND DUTIES INCIDENT TO THE PERIOD OF AN EVANGELIST'S CLOSING HIS LABORS IN A REVIVAL. To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: If I am not mistaken, the churches have fallen into an error in many cases, in respect to the course which it is incumbent on them to take ...read more

87.) Letters On Revival--No. 31
      THE SUCCESS OF EVANGELISTS AS RELATED TO PASTORS To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: Another thing that should be noticed in this connection is the great temptation to which pastors and their particular and warm friends are exposed. If the Lord manifestly blesses the labors of the ev ...read more

88.) Letters On Revival--No. 32
      To All The Friends And Especially All The Ministers Of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Dear Brethren: One of the particular dangers of evangelists is that their labors may disturb the pastoral relations. This is not necessarily so, but such are the infirmities of human nature, and so many are the mistakes into which pastors, evangelists, and churches ...read more

89.) Love is the Whole of Religion
      TEXT.--Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.--Romans xiii. 10 IN speaking from these words, I design, I. To make some remarks on the nature of love. II. To show that love is the whole of religion. III. Some things that are not essential to perfect love. IV. Some things that are essential. ...read more

90.) Love Of The World
      I John ii.15. --Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. In discussing this subject, I shall pursue the following order:-- I. What we are to understand by the love of the world. II. Who love the world in this sense. III. That they do not love God. ...read more

91.) Men Invited To Reason Together With God
      "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." -- Isaiah 1:18. GOD is a moral agent. If he was not, he could not have moral character. That he has moral character is sufficiently manifest from the revealed fact that ma ...read more

92.) Men Often Highly Esteem What God Abhors
      "Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God." -- Luke xvi. 15. CHRIST had just spoken the parable of the unjust steward, in which He presented the case of one who unjustly used the property of others entrusted to him, for the purpos ...read more

93.) Moral Insanity
      "The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live." -- Eccl. ix. 3. THE Bible often ascribes to unconverted men one common heart or disposition. It always makes two classes, and only two, of our race -- saints and sinners; the one class converted from their sin and become God's real friends; the other r ...read more

94.) NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE
      Owe no man any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth another, hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy ...read more

95.) NECESSITY AND NATURE OF DIVINE TEACHING.
      'Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.'--Phil. 2:12, 13. 'Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great ...read more

96.) On the Atonement
      "How that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures." -- 1 Cor. xv. 3. "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -- 2 Cor. v. 21. "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." -- Rom. v. 8. "The Lord is well p ...read more

97.) On Trusting in the Mercy of God
      "I will trust in the mercy of God forever and ever." -- Ps. 52:8. IN discussing this subject I shall enquire, I. What mercy is. II. What is implied in trusting in the mercy of the Lord forever. III. Point out the conditions on which we may safely trust in God's mercy. IV. Allude to several mistakes which are made on this subject. ...read more

98.) overcome the world
      "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." -- 1 John 5:4. THE discussion of this text naturally leads us to make four inquiries, I. What is it to overcome the world? II. Who are they that overcome? III. Why do they overcome the world? IV. How do they do i ...read more

99.) Power From On High 1 - Intro
      Please permit me through your columns to correct a misapprehension of some of the members of the late Council at Oberlin of the brief remarks which I made to them; first on Saturday morning, and afterwards on the Lord's Day. In my first remarks to them I called attention to the mission of the Church to disciple all nations, as recorded by Matthew a ...read more