Daniel Nash

Not a great deal is known about Daniel Nash (1775-1831) but he was the key to Charles Finney’s ministry- he served as Charles’s personnel intercessor. A great deal has been written about Charles but Daniel, his associate, is *the most famous guy the world has never known.

Daniel was Charles Grandison Finney’s prayer warrior. He was a pastor himself but he had been hurt by some church leaders who fired him for being too old. He was 46 at the time.

Daniel would precede Charles’s arrive in a city. He would check into a boarding house and pray for the meetings. He would slip quietly into a town and seek to get 2 or 3 people to enter into a covenant of prayer with him. Sometimes people would hearing weeping and groaning from his room as they prayed for the Holy Spirit’s power to be released for a mighty harvest from Charles’s preaching.

He prayed for days, sometimes even weeks, until he felt the atmosphere had been prepared. Once he felt it was released he would call Charles to come.

Daniel, quiet by nature, did not attend many of the revival meetings, instead he continued to pray.
I did the preaching and brother Nash gave himself up almost continually to prayer. Charles Finney

While Charles preached Daniel would be in some adjoining house, face in agony of prayer. God answered them in the marvels of his grace. While Charles preached those praying ’ held the ropes’.

In the notes I have included it is pointed out that only 4 months after Daniel died, in 1831, that Charles left his itinerate revival ministry to pastor a church.

For Charles Grandson Finney’s conversion see separate TES entry.