[Peace-discuss] Fw: American Minute - Aug. 16 - Charles Finney

[E.Wayne Johnson]

One of the more interesting chapters in the history of Christianity in America has got to be the conversion of Charles Grandison Finney, attorney, at his desk in his office.  Finney touched my life directly because Oberlin College had a missionary school in Taigu where my father-in-law studied English beginning in 1926.  The school closed and fled from the Japanese in the 30's and my father-in-law and his classmates as boys walked the 1500km to Sichuan where the school relocated to.  Later it was Shanxi Agr. Univ in Taigu on that same spot where my wife went to college and got her masters degree.

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August 16

Charles Finney died AUGUST 16, 1875. 

An attorney, Finney saw so many Scripture references in Blackstone's Law Commentaries that he bought a Bible and came to faith. 

Charles Finney's 1835 Revival Lectures inspired George Williams to found the YMCA-Young Men's Christian Association-in 1844, and William Booth to found The Salvation Army in 1865. 

Charles Finney formed the Benevolent Empire, a network of volunteer organizations to aid poor with healthcare and social needs, which in 1834 had a budget rivaling the Federal Government. 

Concerning the Kingdom of God, Charles Finney wrote 

"Every member must work or quit. No honorary members." 

While Charles Finney was president of Oberlin College, 1851-1866, it was a station on the Underground Railroad smuggling slaves to freedom and it granted the first college degree in the United States to a black woman, Mary Jane Patterson. 

Charles Finney wrote: 

"The time has come for Christians to vote for honest men, and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them...

Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to their country as a part of their duty to God." 

Charles Finney concluded: 

"God will bless or curse this nation according to the course Christians take in politics." 




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