The 29-year-old lawyer Charles Grandison Finney had decided he must settle the question of his soul’s salvation. So on October 10, 1821, he headed out into the woods near his Adams, New York, home to ...
Whitney R Cross, The Burned-over District, Cornell Univ Press, Ithaca NY, 1950. All about the upstate NY area and its revivals. Keith J Hardman, Charles Grandison Finney, 1792–1875, Revivalist and ...
I’m responding to a letter written by James Taylor that appeared in the Oct. 28 edition. Taylor begins his letter by quoting some of Charles Finney’s sermon, “Decay of Conscience” from 1873. The quote ...