Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Finney, Charles Grandison

New York: Leavitt, Lord & Co., 1835

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1835

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 12 August 1840. "Did you read Mr. Keble's hymn for the Sunday before last? That sweetly describes the way in which Jesus' love "can turn earth's worst and least, into a conqueror's royal feast." Mr. Finney in his Lectures on Revivals 240 a powerful book but to be read with broad views of the differences in national character) says that the whole of religion is, simply to submit to God. The phrase is common enough but I doubt whether the idea, still less the act be fully comprehended and carried out by the majority even of professing Christians. The confession "we are not our own" is readily made but where is the vivid consciousness of it that can alone conform us to His image who sought not His own will? It is this that makes dwelling in God and He in us. The Christian realizes the apparent paradox of glorying in the possession of the very summit of honour, honour inconceivable until revealed, with the lowest self-abasement. With this man will I dwell, even with him who is of an humble and a contrite spirit and that trembleth at my word. "I send you the Comforter that He may abide with you forever. He dwelleth with you and shall be in you."" GEL 1: 63

Finney, Charles Grandison, Lectures on Revivals of Religion, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57744

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