How Did Finney Respond At Such A Tension?

Priority of Evangelism to Social Activity
Finney was involved in many types of social activity. Most of all, he was famous as an activist of antislavery movement. Molly Oshatz mentions in terms of Finney’s influence, “Most immediatists followed Charles Grandison Finney in assuming that individuals were perfectly free to renounce sin.” Finney’s contemporary antislavery activists, who argued for immediate freedom of slaves, trusted and followed Finney.
However, Finney was a revivalist and evangelist. Finney must have contacted a tension between a revival ministry and an antislavery activity. How did Finney respond when he got at such a tension? How did Finney evaluate people who exhausted all effort to antislavery activity? Finney plainly had priority of evangelism even though he was enthusiastic about immediate abolitionism. Finney’s priority of evangelism is well shown in his relation with his coworkers and friends.
Finney Never Allowed Slave-Holding Members to Join Communion Service
Finney’s opinion of slavery was firm and strong. Finney was infuriated by churches and individual Christians who kept silent about slavery. Finney raised his voice in his Lectures on Revivals of Religion. He taught as follows:
Christians can no more take neutral
What made Finney not take another step toward amalgamation? The reason why Finney was opposed to amalgamation is that he kept in mind the priority of evangelism and revival to social activity. Hardman says, “Finney never surrendered the idea that revivals were God’s primary means of reforming both the church and the world, because he remained convinced that only individuals who were soundly converted could bring about social reform.” His assurance like this was embodied at Rochester revival as mentioned