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Charles G. Finney
(29/08/1792 - 16/8/1875)




LECTURES TO PROFESSING CHRISTIANS


DELIVERED

IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK,

IN THE YEARS 1836 AND 1837.

BY CHARLES G. FINNEY.

FROM NOTES BY THE EDITOR OF THE NEW-YORK EVANGELIST

REVISED BY THE AUTHOR.


NEW-YORK:

JOHN S. AYLOR, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL,

OPPOSITE THE CITY HALL

1837.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1837, by
CHARLES G. FINNEY & JOSHUA LEAVITT,

In The Clerk's Office Of The District Court For the Southern District of New-York.


NEW-YORK:

SMITH & VALENTINE,

STERNOTYPERS.


PREFACE.

 
 

As these Lectures occupied from an hour and a quarter to an hour and three quarters in the delivery, it will be seen by their length, as here given, that the reporter took down but little more than a full skeleton of them. I have made but very slight alterations and additions in revising them, for the following reasons:

1. Their publication was determined on too late, so that I had very little time.

2. My ill health and multiplied duties forbade.

3. To have enlarged them much would have swelled the volume beyond the contemplated size.

4. From experience I have learned that the conversational and condensed style in which they were reported, is more interesting and edifying to common readers, than a more elevated and less laconic style.

I have, therefore, left them as they were reported, with a few verbal and trifling alterations.

The author of the Lectures has no claim to literary merit; and, if he knows his own heart, has no desire that the Lectures should be any thing else than useful.

I have reason to believe that, upon the whole, they will be as much so in their present as under any other form I could give them, circumstanced as I am.

As my friends wish to have them in a volume, they must take them as they are.

C. G. FINNEY.

 

NEW-YORK, 16th March, 1837.

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