The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (February 7, 1832 - May 1, 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.

Born in Philadelphia, Smith was from a long line of prominent and influential Quakers in New Jersey. Hannah Tatum Whitall was the daughter of John Mickle Whitall and Mary Tatum Whitall. Her most famous ancestor was Ann Cooper Whitall.

Hannah Whitall Smith's book The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life (1875) is an extremely popular book of Christian mysticism 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. Many publications of that book omit the three chapters which explain how she became a Christian universalist. (wikipedia.org)

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The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (February 7, 1832 - May 1, 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.

Born in Philadelphia, Smith was from a long line of prominent and influential Quakers in New Jersey. Hannah Tatum Whitall was the daughter of John Mickle Whitall and Mary Tatum Whitall. Her most famous ancestor was Ann Cooper Whitall.

Hannah Whitall Smith's book The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life (1875) is an extremely popular book of Christian mysticism 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. Many publications of that book omit the three chapters which explain how she became a Christian universalist. (wikipedia.org)

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The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

by Hannah Whitall Smith
The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

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Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (February 7, 1832 - May 1, 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.

Born in Philadelphia, Smith was from a long line of prominent and influential Quakers in New Jersey. Hannah Tatum Whitall was the daughter of John Mickle Whitall and Mary Tatum Whitall. Her most famous ancestor was Ann Cooper Whitall.

Hannah Whitall Smith's book The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life (1875) is an extremely popular book of Christian mysticism 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. Many publications of that book omit the three chapters which explain how she became a Christian universalist. (wikipedia.org)


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781647996635
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Publication date: 07/05/2020
Pages: 178
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) was a Quaker who wrote this gem of a book in 1875. It became a worldwide bestseller.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Life

1 Is It Scriptural? 11

2 God's Side and Man's Side 20

3 The Life Defined 29

4 How to Enter In 36

Part 2 Difficulties

5 Difficulties Concerning Consecration 47

6 Difficulties Concerning Faith 55

7 Difficulties Concerning the Will 64

8 Difficulties Concerning Guidance 74

9 Difficulties Concerning Doubts 86

10 Difficulties Concerning Temptation 97

11 Difficulties Concerning Failures 105

12 Is God in Everything? 118

Part 3 Results

13 Bondage or Liberty 129

14 Growth 141

15 Service 153

16 Practical Results in Daily Life 163

17 The Joy of Obedience 172

18 Divine Union 180

19 The Chariots of God 188

20 The Life on Wings 196

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