History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1807 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Charles Grandison Finney
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The idea
Finney was born in western New York in seventeen ninety-two and studied law until a conversion experience in eighteen twenty-one turned him to revivals.
In practice
His greatest success following a Rochester ministry taken up in eighteen thirty.
Where people slip
Rochester was a boomtown of Erie Canal commerce, taught at Unit 09 entry 1231, whose new middle class heard their own destiny in his message.
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