Life Of Charles G. Finney.
Part 1 - A
SENT OF GOD
On 29th August 1792, in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was born ''Charles Grandison’' Finney, named after a character in a novel written by Richardson, with which his parents were better acquainted than with their Bible.
One of his ancestors, seven generations back, came over in the Mayflower, which makes an illustrious pedigree in Massachusetts. His immediate parents were utterly godless. Finney had never owned a Bible till he bought one
to hunt up the passages referred to in his law books.
Strange origin this for "the prince of evangelists!”
One of God’s great surprises—like Martin Luther, the famous Reformer, coming from a peasant-miner's home; and Abraham Lincoln, the greatest President of the world’s greatest Republic, coming from a pioneer’s log-cabin! Evidently when God wants a really great man, He knows how to produce him and where to find him.
When Charles was but two years old, his parents moved into the wilderness of Central New York in
Oneida County. ‘'There' he says, ‘I seldom heard a sermon, unless from some traveling minister, or some miserable holding forth of an ignorant preacher. I remember well how the people would return from meeting, and spend a considerable time in irrepressiblelaughter at the strange mistakes made and the absurdities which had been advanced."
When Charles reached the age of sixteen, a meeting-house was erected in his neighborhood; but his parents, as if afraid of a sanctuary and Christian civilization, took their family, and made another plungeinto the wilderness, going to the extreme eastern end of Lake Ontario, and far to the north, approaching the line of Canada. Here again his life was unblessed by religious privileges.
But the New England emigrants, true to their native instincts, planted their common schools even in the wilderness; and these the boy Charles attended until he was himself able to teach a country school.
When he was twenty years old, he returned to Connecticut. He then went to New Jersey, to teach in a German community, returning twice to his native State to continue his studies under a graduate of Yale. He thus taught and studied for six years as best he could, until his teacher informed him that in two years more of private study he could complete the course of study then pursued at Yale.
His teacher invited the earnest young student to go with him to some Southern State and open an academy. He was inclined to accept the proposal; but his parents, hearing of it, immediately came after him and persuaded him to go home with them to Jefferson County, New York. This was in 1818, when Finney was twenty-six. After making his parents a visit, he concluded to enter, as a student, the law office of Mr. Wright, in the town of Adams, of that county.
He afterward wrote: ‘When I went to Adams to study law, I was almost as ignorant of religion as a heathen. I had been brought up mostly in the woods. I had very little regard for the Sabbath, and had no definite knowledge of religious truth. At Adams, for the first time, I sat statedly for a length of time under an educated ministry. ... I had never, until this time, lived where I could attend a stated prayer-meeting. As one was held by the Church near our office every week, I used to attend and listen to the prayers as often as I could be excused from business at that hour.'
Part 1 - A
SENT OF GOD
On 29th August 1792, in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was born ''Charles Grandison’' Finney, named after a character in a novel written by Richardson, with which his parents were better acquainted than with their Bible.
One of his ancestors, seven generations back, came over in the Mayflower, which makes an illustrious pedigree in Massachusetts. His immediate parents were utterly godless. Finney had never owned a Bible till he bought one
to hunt up the passages referred to in his law books.
Strange origin this for "the prince of evangelists!”
One of God’s great surprises—like Martin Luther, the famous Reformer, coming from a peasant-miner's home; and Abraham Lincoln, the greatest President of the world’s greatest Republic, coming from a pioneer’s log-cabin! Evidently when God wants a really great man, He knows how to produce him and where to find him.
When Charles was but two years old, his parents moved into the wilderness of Central New York in
Oneida County. ‘'There' he says, ‘I seldom heard a sermon, unless from some traveling minister, or some miserable holding forth of an ignorant preacher. I remember well how the people would return from meeting, and spend a considerable time in irrepressiblelaughter at the strange mistakes made and the absurdities which had been advanced."
When Charles reached the age of sixteen, a meeting-house was erected in his neighborhood; but his parents, as if afraid of a sanctuary and Christian civilization, took their family, and made another plungeinto the wilderness, going to the extreme eastern end of Lake Ontario, and far to the north, approaching the line of Canada. Here again his life was unblessed by religious privileges.
But the New England emigrants, true to their native instincts, planted their common schools even in the wilderness; and these the boy Charles attended until he was himself able to teach a country school.
When he was twenty years old, he returned to Connecticut. He then went to New Jersey, to teach in a German community, returning twice to his native State to continue his studies under a graduate of Yale. He thus taught and studied for six years as best he could, until his teacher informed him that in two years more of private study he could complete the course of study then pursued at Yale.
His teacher invited the earnest young student to go with him to some Southern State and open an academy. He was inclined to accept the proposal; but his parents, hearing of it, immediately came after him and persuaded him to go home with them to Jefferson County, New York. This was in 1818, when Finney was twenty-six. After making his parents a visit, he concluded to enter, as a student, the law office of Mr. Wright, in the town of Adams, of that county.
He afterward wrote: ‘When I went to Adams to study law, I was almost as ignorant of religion as a heathen. I had been brought up mostly in the woods. I had very little regard for the Sabbath, and had no definite knowledge of religious truth. At Adams, for the first time, I sat statedly for a length of time under an educated ministry. ... I had never, until this time, lived where I could attend a stated prayer-meeting. As one was held by the Church near our office every week, I used to attend and listen to the prayers as often as I could be excused from business at that hour.'
Life Of Charles G. Finney.
Part 1 - A
SENT OF GOD
On 29th August 1792, in Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut, was born ''Charles Grandison’' Finney, named after a character in a novel written by Richardson, with which his parents were better acquainted than with their Bible.
One of his ancestors, seven generations back, came over in the Mayflower, which makes an illustrious pedigree in Massachusetts. His immediate parents were utterly godless. Finney had never owned a Bible till he bought one
to hunt up the passages referred to in his law books.
Strange origin this for "the prince of evangelists!”
One of God’s great surprises—like Martin Luther, the famous Reformer, coming from a peasant-miner's home; and Abraham Lincoln, the greatest President of the world’s greatest Republic, coming from a pioneer’s log-cabin! Evidently when God wants a really great man, He knows how to produce him and where to find him.
When Charles was but two years old, his parents moved into the wilderness of Central New York in
Oneida County. ‘'There' he says, ‘I seldom heard a sermon, unless from some traveling minister, or some miserable holding forth of an ignorant preacher. I remember well how the people would return from meeting, and spend a considerable time in irrepressiblelaughter at the strange mistakes made and the absurdities which had been advanced."
When Charles reached the age of sixteen, a meeting-house was erected in his neighborhood; but his parents, as if afraid of a sanctuary and Christian civilization, took their family, and made another plungeinto the wilderness, going to the extreme eastern end of Lake Ontario, and far to the north, approaching the line of Canada. Here again his life was unblessed by religious privileges.
But the New England emigrants, true to their native instincts, planted their common schools even in the wilderness; and these the boy Charles attended until he was himself able to teach a country school.
When he was twenty years old, he returned to Connecticut. He then went to New Jersey, to teach in a German community, returning twice to his native State to continue his studies under a graduate of Yale. He thus taught and studied for six years as best he could, until his teacher informed him that in two years more of private study he could complete the course of study then pursued at Yale.
His teacher invited the earnest young student to go with him to some Southern State and open an academy. He was inclined to accept the proposal; but his parents, hearing of it, immediately came after him and persuaded him to go home with them to Jefferson County, New York. This was in 1818, when Finney was twenty-six. After making his parents a visit, he concluded to enter, as a student, the law office of Mr. Wright, in the town of Adams, of that county.
He afterward wrote: ‘When I went to Adams to study law, I was almost as ignorant of religion as a heathen. I had been brought up mostly in the woods. I had very little regard for the Sabbath, and had no definite knowledge of religious truth. At Adams, for the first time, I sat statedly for a length of time under an educated ministry. ... I had never, until this time, lived where I could attend a stated prayer-meeting. As one was held by the Church near our office every week, I used to attend and listen to the prayers as often as I could be excused from business at that hour.'
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