Friday May 16, 2008 at 17:36
![Charles Grandison Finney
“The structure of [Finney’s] mind is altogether peculiar. The logical faculty is developed in an unusual degree, and hence there is a tendency to argument in excess. He reasons on and to the extreme of redundancy, often laboring to explain that which requires no further explanation, and needs no further proof. He is, moreover, strongly addicted to the metaphysical and analytical, and hence whatever he touches becomes more or less arrayed in a dialectical costume. These peculiarities might, at first sight, seem somewhat to unfit him for pulpit labor among the million; but it is otherwise: he succeeds either through or in spite of them.”
— John Campbell, 1851, quoted in G. Frederick Wright, “A Biography of Charles Grandison Finney,” 1891](http://media.tumblr.com/oA6Wb8xjh92wellxQJ2pnJvJ_400.jpg)
Charles Grandison Finney
“The structure of [Finney’s] mind is altogether peculiar. The logical faculty is developed in an unusual degree, and hence there is a tendency to argument in excess. He reasons on and to the extreme of redundancy, often laboring to explain that which requires no further explanation, and needs no further proof. He is, moreover, strongly addicted to the metaphysical and analytical, and hence whatever he touches becomes more or less arrayed in a dialectical costume. These peculiarities might, at first sight, seem somewhat to unfit him for pulpit labor among the million; but it is otherwise: he succeeds either through or in spite of them.”
— John Campbell, 1851, quoted in G. Frederick Wright, “A Biography of Charles Grandison Finney,” 1891
