LETTER OF
The GOSPEL TRUTH 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.]
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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.
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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.