Lectures on Revivals of Religion / Charles Grandison Finney; William G. McLoughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finney, Charles Grandison, author.

Contributor:

McLoughlin, William G., editor.

Series:

John Harvard Library

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evangelistic work.

Revivals.

Sermons, American.

Local Subjects:

Evangelistic work.

Revivals.

Sermons, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 edition. Excerpt: ...have our minister here;" while at the same time they hinder all he can do. If he could, he would tear himself right away, and go where there is no minister, and where the people would be willing to receive the gospel. But there he must stay, though he cannot get the church into a state to have a revival once in, three years, to last three months at a time. It might be well for him to say to the church, "Whenever you are determined to take one of these long naps, I wish you to let me know it, so that I can go and labor somewhere else in the mean time, till you are ready to" wake again." 3, Many churches cannot be blessed with a revival, because they are spunging out of other churches, and out of the treasury of the Lord, for the support of their minister, when they are abundantly able to support him themselves. Perhaps they are depending on the Home Missionary Society, or on other churches, while they are not exercising any self-denial for the sake of the gospel. I have been amazed to see how some churches live. One church that I was acquainted with, actually confessed that they spent more money for tobacco than they gave for missions. And yet they had no minister, because they were not able to support one. And they have none now. And yet there is one man in that church who is able to support a minister. And still they have no minister, and no preaching. The churches have not been instructed in their duty on this subject. I stopped in one place last summer, where there was no preaching. I inquired of an elder in the church, why it was so, and he said it was because they were so poor. I asked him how much he was worth. He did not give me a direct answer, but said that another elder's income was about $500 a year, and I...

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

LECTURES

I. WHAT A REVIVAL OF RELIGION IS

II. WHEN A REVIVAL IS TO BE EXPECTED

III. HOW TO PROMOTE A REVIVAL

IV. PREVAILING PRAYER

V. THE PRAYER OF FAITH

VI. SPIRIT OF PRAYER

VII. BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT

VIII. MEETINGS FOR PRAYER

IX. MEANS TO BE USED WITH SINNERS

X. TO WIN SOULS REQUIRES WISDOM

XI. A WISE MINISTER WILL BE SUCCESSFUL

XII. HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL

XIII. HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP MINISTERS

XIV. MEASURES TO PROMOTE REVIVALS

XV. HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS

XVI. NECESSITY AND EFFECT OF UNION

XVII. FALSE COMFORTS FOR SINNERS

XVIII. DIRECTIONS TO SINNERS

XIX. INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS

XX. INSTRUCTION OF YOUNG CONVERTS

XXI. BACKSLIDERS

XXII. GROWTH IN GRACE

Backmatter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-33392-6

OCLC:

1013955741