The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life - Softcover

Smith, Hannah Whitall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409957624 ISBN 13: 9781409957621

Publisher: Dodo Pr, 2008

Synopsis

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (1832-1911) was a lay speaker and author in the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. She was also active in the Women's Suffrage movement and the Temperance movement. In 1851 Hannah married Robert Pearsall Smith, a man who descended from a long line of prominent Quakers in the region. From 1873-1874 they spoke at various places in England, including Oxford, teaching on the subjects of the "higher life" and "holiness. " In 1874 Hannah helped found the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Her book The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life (2 volumes) (1875) is an extremely popular book of Christian principles and practical Holiness theology. It is still widely read today. She wrote her spiritual autobiography, The Unselfishness of God and How I Discovered It, in 1903.

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More than 10 million copies sold!

Is your life all you want it to be?

Hannah Whitall Smith--believer, rebel, realist--faced life as she found it, and she found it good. She took God's promises literally, tested them, and found them true. She stepped out of conjecture into certainty, and the shadows of life disappeared.

Here she reveals how to make unhappiness and uncertainty give way to serenity and confidence in every day of your life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dodo Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409957624
• ISBN 13: 9781409957621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224