[Charles] Finney put the cause of the church before anything else, including his own comfort. When he moved from New York to teach theology at Oberlin, he was, Noll wrote, “So pressed for funds that he was forced to sell ‘my traveling trunk, which I had used in my evangelistic labors.’” So be it, Finney said: “if help did not come,” he noted, “I should assume that it was best that it should not.”
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Mecham. Random House. 2006. p.141
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