CHARLES G. FINNEY

REVIEWS OF FINNEY'S "MEMOIRS" BY HIS CONTEMPORARIES.

FROM THE FRONT PAGE OF THE A.S. BARNES & COMPANY EDITION

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A WONDERFUL RECORD OF REVIVAL TIMES.

MEMOIRS

OF

REV. CHARLES G. FINNEY,

(THE CELEBRATED REVIVALIST PREACHER),

 

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF,

WITH A PORTRAIT ON STEEL, AND FAC-SIMILE SERMON IN MR. FINNEY'S OWN HANDWRITING.

 

477 PAGES. POST-PAID, $2.00.

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"The narrative is personal, involving the experiences both of the author and of those with whom he had to do. It presents the memories and heart yearnings of a veteran pastor with a passion for saving souls."

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BY REV. THEO. L. CUYLER, D.D.

A wonderful volume it truly is. To read it, stirs the soul like a trumpet. This country has seen but one Charles G. Finney.

The most remarkable feature of this extraordinary book is the supernatural element. Finney lived, preached, and labored as if the Spirit of the Most High dwelt in him and spoke through him. Certainly mighty works were wrought by his trenchant voice; and many who "heard it, said that it thundered." Some of the foremost Christian laymen in the Empire State were converted under his ministry. He probably led more souls to Jesus than any man of this century.

BY REV. R. S. STORRS, D.D.

I have read it with the greatest interest, and am impatient for leisure enough to read it again. What a fiery John the Baptist he was in his earlier ministry! What a marvelous movement that to which he gave an impulse, so mighty and so wide!

BY REV. LYMAN ABBOTT.

I congratulate you on publishing, in Dr. Finney's biography, the most fascinating religious biography that I ever read. It is as dramatic, as full of surprises, almost as marvelous in its manifestation of divine power, as the Book of Acts. It Is coming out at just the right time.

A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, Publishers.

 

MEMOIRS OF REV. CHARLES G. FINNEY.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

From The Independent.

It fully justifies the high expectations we have hitherto, from time to time, expressed concerning it. As a plain, modest, and straightforward record of the life of a godly revivalist and educationist, it will long possess a value in American reli gious literature.

From Zion's Advocate.

Here is a wonderful book, the reflection of the life of a wonderful man. If, as we believe, God is the same at all times, we may find in this book an illustration of what God has done in other days, and which shall greatly stimulate the faith of Christians in these days. Let it be generally bought and read.

From The Albany Evening Journal

Equally with any minister who ever lived, he adorned the doctrines that he preached, and his name will he associated through all time, with the names of the most eminent evangelists in all the centuries.

From The Southern Christian Advocate.

This volume will be gratefully welcomed by earnest ministers of all denomina tions, and also by such zealous laymen as feel that their responsibilities demand active service in the Master's vineyard. There can he no doubt that the personal piety and ministerial fidelity of thousands will be quickened and stimulated by these interesting memorials of a consecrated and successful life.

From The Home Scientist

This is a most remarkable book, written by one of the most remarkable men of this century, whose name will he associated with the history of the revivals and religious movements of the nineteenth century.

From the Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D.

I have read it with the greatest interest, and am impatient for leisure enough to read it again. What a fiery John the Baptist he was in his earlier ministry! What a marvelous movement that to which he gave an impulse, so mighty and so wide!

From the Sunday-School Worker.

This book is written in Mr. Finney's graphic, striking style, and it abounds in ripe Christian thought, in illustration, suggestion, and anecdote. It is a most fascinating religious biography. It gives the experience of one who is widely recog nized as the greatest preacher and most successful revivalist of the age.

From The New York Tribune

In the tide of religious revival which swept over New England, and extended to parts of New York and Pennsylvania, during the first half of this century, Mr. Fin ney was no less prominent in the front rank of successful laborers than are the celebrated evangelists. Messrs. Moody and Sankey, at the present day. The narrative may, perhaps, appear monotonous to the general reader, as it is mainly a repetition of similar scenes, and similar trains of thought; but the student of human character will find it rich in materials, while it affords a striking illustration of a phase of re ligious experience and action that may almost be regarded as a peculiar feature of American life.

From The Nation.

The publication of President Finney's life is certainly very opportune in these days of revivals, for he was the great revivalist of his day. * * * The man was thoroughly in earnest, and tells his story with the graphic power that made him an effective preacher of the first rank.

A. S. BARNES & COMPANY, Publishers.

 

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