Lectures To
Professing Christians

By Charles Finney*

Preface

As these Lectures occupied from an hour and a quarter to an hour and three quarters in the delivery, it will be seen by their length, as here given, that the reporter took down but little more than a full skeleton of them. I have made but very slight alterations and additions in revising them, for the following reasons:

The author of the Lectures has no claim to literary merit; and, if he knows his own heart, has no desire that the Lectures should be any thing else than useful. I have reason to believe that, upon the whole, they will be as much so in their present as under any other form I could give them, circumstanced as I am.As my friends wish to have them in a volume, they must take them as they are.

C. G. FINNEY.

NEW-YORK, 16th March, 1837.

*Delivered in the city of New York, in the years 1836 and 1837. From notes by the editor of the New York Evangelist Revised by the author 1837.