The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

About this book

Twenty-two chapters on what the author called the life of faith: the difference between God's side of the Christian life and man's, and what it means in practice to hand the whole thing over. It came out of the Higher Life conferences of the 1870s and has stayed in print ever since.

About Hannah Whitall Smith

Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) was raised a Quaker in Philadelphia and became, with her husband Robert, a leading speaker at the Higher Life conventions in Britain and America that led to the Keswick movement. She buried four of her seven children. Late in life she came to hold universalist views, set out in her 1903 autobiography The Unselfishness of God and How I Discovered It. This book, written in 1875, predates those views.

Text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library; in the public domain.

Contents

1. Preface
2. Introductory 🔒
3. The Scripturalness of This Life 🔒
4. The Life Defined 🔒
5. How to Enter in 🔒
6. Difficulties Concerning Consecration 🔒
7. Difficulties Concerning Faith 🔒
8. Difficulties Concerning the Will 🔒
9. Is God in Everything? 🔒
10. Growth 🔒
11. Service 🔒
12. Difficulties Concerning Guidance 🔒
13. Concerning Temptation 🔒
14. Failures 🔒
15. Doubts 🔒
16. Practical Results in the Daily Walk and Conversation 🔒
17. The Joy of Obedience 🔒
18. Oneness with Christ 🔒
19. "Although" and "Yet," a Lesson in the Interior Life 🔒
20. Kings and Their Kingdoms; Or, How to Reign in the Interior Life 🔒
21. The Chariots of God 🔒
22. "Without Me Ye Can Do Nothing" 🔒
23. "God with Us"; Or, the One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Psalm 🔒