The GOSPEL TRUTH
LETTER OF

CHARLES G. FINNEY

To Edward Payson Marvin

Undated

 

[MS in Charles G. Finney Papers, Series 2, Box 9. This is a fragment of a letter consisting of what appears to be the top half of a page 3 on one side, and the top half of a page 4 on the other. It was probably written to Edward Payson Marvin, since it was with a bunch of other letters of Finney to Marvin which had come into the possession of a gentleman in Cincinnati who donated them to Oberlin College Archives in 1982. The dates of the other letters to Marvin are in the late 1860s and 70s.]

 

[page 3]

a second conversion as he calls it, or

as I should call it, a fresh & deeper

work of grace in the soul; but I believe

the soul needs, may have, & many do

have, many such baptisms of the Holy

Spirit. These I regard as distinct stages

in the Divine life in the soul. I know

this by experience. I am sorry that Br. B.

[page 4]

second step in religion & had also

said there are many such steps in

the higher christian life.

Your Br. in the Lord.

C. G. Finney

 

Footnote:

Finney started to write another word after this which he crossed out.