Methodism In Earnest: Being The History Of A Great Revival In Great Britain

Excerpt from Methodism in Earnest: Being the History of a Great Revival in Great Britain; In Which Twenty Thousand Souls Were Justified, and Ten Thousand Sanctified, in About Six Years
In preparing these pages for the use of the American public, the Editor has been animated by a fixed belief that their publication would cultivate that genuine and earnest piety which is at once the characteristic and necessity of Methodism. His task has not been performed without difficulty, in consequence of the descriptions of Mr. Caughey's revival movements being blended with other matter in the "Letters" from which this compilation is made. Those Letters comprise five volumes, and embrace a great variety of topics. To obtain a consecutive narrative of his revival experiences and operations, parts and fragments of his Letters have been blended together as harmoniously as possible. But after exerting the greatest skill, the Editor is fully aware that the flow of the narrative is not as smooth and even as he would love to have it. The abrupt style of Mr. C. also increased the difficulty. But the work is done: and imperfect as it may be found to be by the lynx-eyed, fault-hunting critic, it is still our unalterable conviction, that God will bless it to the good of souls.