From the preface:
The remarkable favor with which the religious public have received “Methodism in Earnest,” and “Revival Miscellanies,” has induced us to publish another volume from the quaint, pithy, and profitable pen of Mr. Caughey. We believe the present work to be as intrinsically valuable as either of its predecessors; and that it will be equally useful, should it chance to find as many readers. Like those works, it is quite miscellaneous in its character. It takes up the detail of Mr. Caughey’s personal history where it was left at the close of “Methodism in Earnest,” and follows him through the remarkable work of God which attended his labors in Huddersfield (Eng.) during the winter of 1845-6. The introductory sketch of Mr. Caughey’s life conducts the reader down to that point in his history. So that the work now issued, though in one sense a sequel to “Methodism in Earnest,” is, nevertheless, complete in itself. Choosing the incidents of the Huddersfield revival to be as a silver thread running through his book, Mr. Caughey has woven into it a variety of thoughts, illustrations, hints, discourses, etc., which cannot but be profitable to every earnest man who will be at the pains to peruse them. Confident of its value as a stimulant to the true religious life, we give this work to the public, believing that, when we enter the spirit world, the fact of its publication by our hands will be among those pleasant memories of the past we shall love to cherish there; and that it will prove the means of imparting help and good cheer to many a pilgrim on his way to the Celestial City.
The Table of Contents are as follows:
Part 1: COMMENTS BY A. M. HILLS ABOUT JAMES CAUGHEY
Part 2: PUBLISHER’S PREFACE
Part 3: SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES CAUGHEY
Part 4: A WEEK OF AGONIZING CONFLICTS
Part 5: A CHARACTERISTIC DISCOURSE
Part 6: ONWARD MOVEMENT OF THE REVIVAL
Part 7: THE NEW CONVERT EXHORTED TO HOLINESS
Part 8: JUSTIFIED PERSONS DESIRE PURITY
Part 9: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE — THE REVIVAL
Part 10: WARNINGS TO SINNERS — A SERMON
Part 11: NOTES OF THE HUDDERSFIELD REVIVAL
Part 12: EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL
