Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) was a speaker and writer during the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom. Smith's books The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life and The God of All Comfort are still widely popular today.

Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911) was a speaker and writer during the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life movement in the United Kingdom. Smith's books The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life and The God of All Comfort are still widely popular today.

Hannah Whitall Smith was a Christian author during the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life Movement in the United Kingdom. Smith was also a key figure in the Women's suffrage movement and still remains a popular author among Christians today. In 1903, Smith published a spiritual biography called The Unselfishness of God and How I Discovered It.

Hannah Whitall Smith was a Christian author during the Holiness movement in the United States and the Higher Life Movement in the United Kingdom. Smith was also a key figure in the Women's suffrage movement and still remains a popular author among Christians today. In Smith's book Every-day Religion or The Common-sense Teaching of the Bible, she presents 19 practical lessons on leading a good Christian life.

Hannah Whitall Smith explains that the Christian life should be one of complete serenity and deep joy in the face of the stresses of life. This easy to read, deeply practical and thoroughly orthodox book has deepened the lives of countless Christians over the last century and a half. (The chapters are: Preface; God's Side and Man's Side; The Scripturalness of this Life; The Life Defined; How to Enter in; Difficulties Concerning Consecration; Difficulties Concerning Faith; Difficulties Concerning the Will; Is God in Everything?; Growth; Service; Difficulties Concerning Guidance; Concerning...

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.

Hannah Whitall Smith knew firsthand the world's darkness and grief-but she was confident that "somewhere and somehow God was] going to make everything right for all the creatures He has created." Her writings have often been censored to remove the more "heretical" portions, but her only heresy is her belief in Divine love, a love stronger than any obstacle. As a mother, she knew how much she loved her children-and she could not believe that God's love could be weaker than her own. I began to see that the wideness of God's love was far beyond any wideness that I could even conceive of. . . if...

Originally published in 1875, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life is a classic of joyous Christianity. In her studies, author Hannah Whitall Smith discovered that there is a way to handle the stressors in our life in a healthy way that builds us up instead of tearing us down. That way of dealing with life's trials is through living faithfully in the rest and comfort that Jesus offers us. True happiness does not come from an absence of difficulty, but through the loving embrace of our Savior.