The 29-year-old lawyer Charles Grandison Finney had decided he must settle the question of his soul's salvation. So on October 10, 1821, he headed out into the woods near his Adams, New York ...

George Whitefield, Jarena Lee and Charles Finney. From John Hughes to Joseph Smith, scroll to see how different people living during America's formative years influenced the current state of ...

Popularized by frontier camp meetings and Charles Finney’s “anxious bench,” the altar call became an evangelistic staple of American churches. The pastor closes his sermon: “The Holy ...

But in July 1935, the Viking Press published that first work by Charles G. Finney (1905-1984), and ten months later The Circus of Dr. Lao won one of the first four National Book Awards.