Warfield, Studies in Perfectionism, 2 vols right wing blog. (New York: Oxford, 1932), 2:24].
B masons. B 2012 Presidential Candidates. Warfield, one of Finney’s contemporaries made a similar assessment: “During ten years, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, were annually reported to be converted on all hands; but now it is admitted, that real converts are comparatively few. It is declared, even by [Finney] himself, that “the great body of them are a disgrace to religion” [cited in Warfield, 2:23].
Warfield cited the testimony of Asa Mahan, one of Finney’s close associates, who wrote in his Autobiography – to put it briefly – that everyone who was concerned with these revivals suffered a sad subsequent lapse: “the people were left like a dead coal which could not be reignited; the pastors were shorn of all their spiritual power; and the evangelists?”among them all,” he says, “and I was personally acquainted with nearly every one of them?I cannot recall a single man, brother Finney and father Nash excepted, who did not after a few years lose his unction, and become equally disqualified for the office of evangelist and that of pastor.” Thus the great “Western Revivals” ran out into disaster.
