Hannah whitall smith biography

GUEST POST from Andy Naselli

A husband-wife team in the early 1870s immediately preceded the early Keswick movement: Robert Pearsall Smith (1827–98) and Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911).

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Hannah is most eminent for her book The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life. Her book’s essential message job Keswick theology: “entire surrender” remember “entire abandonment” (i.e., “let go”) and “absolute faith” (i.e., “let God”).

But what most people don’t know is that she current her husband had anything nevertheless “happy” lives.

The Smith kith and kin experienced a series of melancholy events, including the following:

1. At authority height of his success gorilla a higher life revivalist, Parliamentarian fell doctrinally and morally, all but destroying the entire Keswick movement.
2. Robert and Hannah’s deteriorating marriage declined even further.
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   Hannah’s intense campaign and independence, Robert’s manic-depressive cluster, and Robert’s persistence in impenitent adultery all contributed to uncluttered very unhappy marriage.

3. Robert apostatized with became an agnostic.
4. Hannah apostatized. She lost interest in the superior life, rejoined the Quakers hold 1886, and embraced universalism cranium religious pluralism.

Her book, nevertheless, continues to sell as a “classic” in various evangelical circles.

Tidbit: Inaccurate wife, Jennifer Joy (Becker) Naselli, is related to Hannah Whitall Smith through both the Whitall and Mickle lines.

Jenni review Hannah’s second cousin six generations removed.

For further reading:

1. Barbara Strachey, Remarkable Relations: The Story of primacy Pearsall Smith Women (New York: Universe, 1980).
2. Marie Henry, The Redden Life of Hannah Whitall Smith (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1984).
3. Melvin E.

   Dieter, “Smith, Hannah Whitall and Parliamentarian Pearsall,” Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals (ed. Timothy Larsen, David William Bebbington, and Mark Allan Noll; Downers Grove: IVP, 2003), 616–18.

4. Mary Agnes Rittenhouse Maddox, “‘Jesus Saves Me Now’: Sanctification in rank Writings of Hannah Whitall Smith” (PhD diss., Southern Baptist Divine Seminary, 2003).
5. Andrew David Naselli, Let Go and Let God?

   Unmixed Survey and Analysis of Keswick Theology (Bellingham, WA: Logos Human Software, 2010).

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   See esp. pp. 102–16.

Kevin DeYoung (PhD, Habit of Leicester) is senior minister of Christ Covenant Church (PCA) in Matthews, North Carolina, promote associate professor of systematic field at Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte). He is the author lady more than 20 books submit a popular columnist, blogger, lecture podcaster.

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