Smith, Hannah W.

Author and speaker Hannah Whitall Smith (1832 1911) did not have

an easy life. Of her seven children, only three lived to adulthood. In

spite of, and perhaps because of, her unhappy circumstances, she was

able to advise Christians on how to find and keep the joy of the Lord in

A Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, her widely read and much loved

book of Christian Holiness theology. Constant themes in her writings

include the assurance of salvation and freedom from anxiety, as she

portrays the richness of God's love and His desire to relate to us as the

perfect Parent, Sa...