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August 26, 2015

Title: Part 2 of 3 - Attorney Turned Preacher: Charles Finney
Topic: Second Awakening In America

Discussed by Bill Federer
with American Minute (www.AmericanMinute.com)

Blackstone's Commentaries were also read by 29-year-old attorney Charles Finney. Finney saw so many Scripture references in Blackstone's Law Commentaries that he bought a Bible. After reading in the Bible, Charles Finney, on October 10, 1821, decided to head into the woods near his home, saying: "I will give my heart to God, or I never will come down from there."

After several hours, he returned to his office, later writing: "The Holy Spirit...seemed to go through me, body and soul... Indeed it seemed to come in waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way."

The next morning, at his law office, a church deacon suing a fellow-church member asked Finney about his case. Finney replied: "I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause, and cannot plead yours."

Finney began presenting the Gospel with a convincing lawyer's argument. He would pray using common, colloquial language rather than in formal, traditional King's English.

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