Sermons on the Way of Salvation

Excerpt from Sermons on the Way of Salvation
The continued interest by the Christian public in the sermons of President Finney, which were first published now nearly sixty years ago, bears testimony to the vigor of his reasoning and to the grace and unction of his expression. During this century at least, he has had no equal as an interpreter and preacher of the gospel. The audiences which he moved and guided to the acceptance of the truth, always included many persons of the highest intellectual order. So clear was his conception of the truth, that he was unable to utter an obscure sentence. So profound was his conviction of the justice and love of God, and of the unreasonableness and folly of sin, that he could not but speak with inspiring eloquence when beseeching men to be reconciled to their Lord and Saviour.
Many of the sermons collected in this volume we remember to have heard from the preachers own lips while a student in Oberlin nearly forty years ago. It is, of course, impossible through the medium of the printed page to reproduce all the marvellous power attending the sermons in their original delivery. But Professor Cowles was a sympathetic reporter, and had had long practice in writing out the discourses of the great preacher he so much admired, and thus was able to present a remarkably correct report.