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

[E. Wayne Johnson]

There was a razor blade company in China that had pretty good double 
edge razor blades
and enjoyed great brand name popularity.  However there were so many 
fake clone/copy
products using their packaging and labeling that finally this company 
essentially went out of business.

Charles Grandison Finney was the Real Deal.  His notes are still worth 
reading if one has the time.

Oberlin College started a missionary school in Shanxi Taigu in the late 
1800's.  During the
Boxer Rebellion the Qing Dynasty governor of Shanxi rounded up the 
missionaries and
beheaded them in his courtyard in Taiyuan.

But Oberlin rebuilt the school in Taigu.  My father-in-law studied 
English and Physics there beginning
in 1926, and in the 1930s fled the Japanese on foot from Taigu to 
Sichuan when Shanxi was overrun
by the invading Japanese.

After the war and 1949, the Memorial School in Taigu became Shanxi 
Agricultural University where
my wife Dr. Qiao studied and taught several years.

On 8/16/2011 9:25 AM, American Minute wrote:
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> American Minute with Bill Federer
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> August 16
>
> Charles Finney died AUGUST 16, 1875.
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> 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:
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> "Every member must work or quit. No honorary members."
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> Charles Finney concluded:
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> "God will bless or curse this nation according to the course 
> Christians take in politics."
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>

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