CHAPTER X.-PROTRACTED MEETINGS.

EXTRAVAGANT DEMONSTRATIONS · CORRECT TEACHING NEEDED

RELIGIOUS RESPONSES-LET ALL METHODISTS SAY "AMEN "

ALL

CORNERS SHOULD BE "AMEN CORNERS -OBJECTIONS

ANSWERED-THE INVETERATE FAULT-FINDER NOTHING HU-

MAN PERFECT APOSTASIES IN REVIVALS-THEIR OCCURRENCE

CONSIDERED THE MORAL STATE OF THE BACKSLIDER NO

ONE EVER MADE WORSE BY CONVERSION-THE BACKSLIDER THE

FIRST TO BE RE-CONVERTED................................ ......... ....... ..... ... ... ... PAGE 93

CHAPTER XI.-NECESSITY OF AGGRESSIVE ENTERPRISE.

-

A RARE BUT INSIDIOUS EVIL EXPOSED THE FEARFUL PREACHER

HIS FEARS FOUNDED IN A FALSE PHILOSOPHY A STUNTED

CHURCH-INSTRUCT THE PEOPLE IN THE AGGRESSIVE MOVE-

MENTS

OF THE CHURCH- THEY ONLY GROW STRONG BY

BEARING BURDENS — THE "QUARTER OF A DOLLAR" TYPE OF

METHODISM-SPIRITUAL BABIES AT FORTY -PLANS AND PUR-

POSES SHOULD BE LARGE-REASONS WHY THE WEST HAS

BEEN PARTICULARLY FAVORED WITH REVIVALS THE PREACHER

WHO WILL BE BLESSED WITH THEMA WORKING LAITY

DETERMINES A CHURCH'S PROSPERITY DANGER OF METHOD-

ISM BEING OUTSTRIPPED BY SISTER SECTS..............

......

103

CHAPTER XII.-NURSING THE YOUNG CONVERT.

A DISPROPORTION BETWEEN CONVERSIONS RECORDED AND ULTIMATE

RESULTS INCREASE IN THE MEMBERSHIP IN THE YEARS 1854-5

NOT FLATTERING MORE IMPORTANT TO TAKE CARE OF WHAT

WE HAVE, THAN TO SECURE MORE AT THE NEGLECT OF THAT-

THE YOUNG CONVERT MUST BE INSTRUCTED KIND OF IN-

STRUCTION NEEDED THE HELP PROVIDED FOR THE PASTOR-

THE CLASS-LEADER - OUR CHURCH LITERATURE NECESSITY OF

CATECHETICAL INSTRUCTION THE EXAMPLE OF THE ANCIENT

CHURCH OUR INCREASED FACILITIES FOR NURSING THE YOUNG

CONVERT-LOSS TO THE ANCIENT CHURCH FOR THE WANT OF

THE PRESS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE POPE NECESSITY OF

SPREADING OUR BOOKS THE YOUNG CONVERT TO BE AT ONCE

SUPPLIED-IMPORTANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS WEEKLY -RELATION

OF RELIGIOUS READING TO REVELATION -THE BIBLE ALWAYS TO

PRECEDE, BUT NEVER SUPERSEDE THE CONSECRATED TONGUE

AND PEN........

113

CHAPTER XIII.-THE POWER OF KINDNESS.

WHAT CHRISTIAN KINDNESS IS NOT-CHRISTIAN KINDNESS DEFINED

- ERRONEOUS VIEWS CORRECTED THE ESTHETIC ELEMENT OF

KINDNESS -THE POWER OF KINDNESS ILLUSTRATED -RELATION

OF KINDNESS TO GOOD MANNERS - KINDNESS AS A REVIVAL EL-

EMENT CONSTITUTES A WANT OF THE CHURCH KINDNESS A

TEST OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER............... ... ... ... ... ... PAGE 124

---

CHAPTER XIV.-INFRACTIONS OF THE LAW OF KIND-

NESS CONSIDERED.

LAW OF KINDNESS VIOLATED IN SPIRIT

-

THE PULPIT SCOLD

THE ACID REVIVALIST RESULTS OF SUCH REVIVALS THE RE-

LATION OF THE TONES OF THE VOICE TO KINDNESS

OF WHITEFIELD

--

ANECDOTE

VOICE OF THE PREACHER IN THE PULPIT-

ANECDOTE OF THE LITTLE GIRL-IMPORTANCE OF THE SUBJECT

TOO LITTLE REALIZED WORDS UNFITLY SPOKEN

ITIES IN DEBATE AN APOLOGY FOR THEIR PREVALENCE - THE

-

PERSONAL-

OLD WRITERS-THE YOUNG WRITERS - REFORM NEEDED... 133

CHAPTER XV.-THE LAW OF FORGIVENESS.

OF

REVENGE ALWAYS A VICE-ANECDOTE OF COL. GARDINER

REVENGE PERPETUATES, BUT FORGIVENESS EXTERMINATES

WRONG-REACTING POWER OF REVENGE SMALL RESENTMENTS

SINFUL THE FACT ILLUSTRATED LEGAL PUNISHMENT

CRIMINALS NOT REVENGE SUGGESTIVE PRINCIPLES FORGIVE-

NESS AND MERCY FORGIVENESS ESSENTIAL TO REVIVALS

SOLEMNITY OF THE SUBJECT................................................

144

CHAPTER XVI.-PIETY THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH.

A WORD TO THE PREACHER-THE LIFE OR DEATH OF A CHURCH

TO BE TESTED BY HER PIETY-A PHOSPHORESCENT CHURCH LIFE

ELEMENTS OF PIETY TREATED OF ABSURDITY OF DIS-

BELIEF IN THE SPIRITUALITY OF PIETY-SPIRITUALITY OF THE

HEART ONLY CERTAINLY KNOWN BY ITS FRUITS TEMPERS AS

A TEST OF SPIRITUALITY CONDUCT AND CREED AS PROOFS OF

153

SPIRITUALITY -IMPORTANCE OF HOLY TEMPERS.........

CHAPTER XVII.-INTELLIGENCE AS AN ELEMENT OF

EDGE BECOMES

PIETY.

WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE — DEFINITION OF TRUTH — WHEN KNOWL-

POWER DIFFERENCE BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE

AND WISDOM THE KIND OF KNOWLEDGE THE CHRISTIAN

SHOULD SEEK THE BIBLE-READING CHRISTIAN — SECURITY

AGAINST APOSTASY-THE BIBLE AND POPULAR LITERATURE-

THE NEWSPAPER AN INTERPRETER OF THE BIBLE -CHRISTIANS

AND THE PROMISES.....

.........PAGE 159

CHAPTER XVIII.-MOTIVES AND INDIVIDUALITY AS

ELEMENTS OF PIETY.

MOTIVES-DIVIDED INTO INNOCENT AND RELIGIOUS AND BOTH —

DISINTERESTED BENEVOLENCE--SINISTER MOTIVES-TWO THINGS

TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE DOCTRINE OF MOTIVES-THE MAN

WHO HANGS OUT HIS OWN SIGN-INDIVIDUALITY-A CHARAC-

TER FOUND IN THE WAY-REWARD PROPORTIONED TO ABILITY

-ANECDOTE OF A GREAT GENERAL-THE LONDON MERCHANT-

IMPORTANT LAW OF SPIRITUAL GROWTH-REVIVAL HELP-

HINTS.........

166

................

CHAPTER XIX.-VARIETY OF MINISTERIAL TALENT.

VARIETY OF MINISTERIAL TALENT......................... .............. .........

CHAPTER XX.-THE PAST AND PRESENT-A CHARAC-

TER.

THE PAST AND PRESENTA CHARACTER......

179

CHAPTER XXI.—PASTORAL VISITING.

THE FOOLISH PHYSICIAN AND PREACHER CONTRASTED-HOW POWER

MAY BE COLLECTED FOR THE PULPIT-JOHN B. GOUGH THE

PEOPLE TO BE SEEN AT THEIR HOMES A GOOD PASTOR SELDOM

IMPUTED AN INFERIOR PREACHER-THE PREACHER WHO CANNOT

VISIT ANECDOTE OF THE CRIMEA -- THE MODEL TEACHER A

MODEL PASTOR-HEARTS ARE TO BE READ AS WELL AS BOOKS. 184

CHAPTER XXII.-PASTORAL VISITING.

PASTORAL AND SOCIAL VISITING THE PASTOR THE COMMON

PROPERTY OF ALL-BEING INSTANT IN SEASON-THE SICK

ROOM EMERGENCES DEATH IN A FAMILY FUNERAL

SERMONS-DUE REFERENCE TO BE HAD TO THE CUSTOMS OF

.......... ..... ...PAGE 192

SOCIETY...

CHAPTER XXIII.-EXCITEMENT.

METHODISTS NOT ALARMED-EXCITEMENT FEARED BECAUSE IT

CONFLICTS WITH A CREED-SELDOM SUCCESSFULLY GUARDED

AGAINST DEFINITION OF METHODISM EXTRAVAGANCES DEP-

RECATEDEXCITEMENT ANALYZED FOUR CARDINAL SOURCES

OF EMOTION-RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENT ALWAYS WHOLESOME. 200

CHAPTER XXIV.-HAVE FAITH IN REVIVALS.

REVIVALS SCRIPTURAL -THEIR SPIRIT FLOWS IN THE PRAYERS OF

THE BIBLE, IN THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE, IN THE PROMISES

OF THE BIBLE, AND IN BIBLE HISTORY SECULAR HISTORY OF

REVIVALS- REVIVALS AND METHODISMA SOLECISM........ 208

CHAPTER XXV.-HOLINESS.

DISTINCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS - THE THING AND NOT THE

MODE TO BE INVESTIGATED AGREEMENT AS IT RESPECTS THE

THING IN ESSENCE DEFINITION GIVEN TRUE STANDARD

AROUND WHICH WE CAN HARMONIZE-QUESTIONS WHICH LIE

BEYOND PROFITABLE INVESTIGATION THE THEORISTS-SPE-

CIAL MEETINGS TO SEEK FOR CHRISTIAN HOLINESS-THE

GRAND PECULIARITY ADVANCING FROM THE "HOPE SO" TO

THE "KNOW SO "HOLINESS UNDER THE DIFFERENT DISPENSA-

TIONS HOLINESS THE BIBLE'S LAST DEMAND UPON THE

214

HELPS

TO THE

PROMOTION OF REVIVALS.

CHAPTER I.

WHAT IS A REVIVAL?

THE CHURCH IN NEED OF REVIVALS-A REVIVAL NOT A MIRACLE
-REVIVALS THE RESULT OF THE USE OF APPROPRIATE MEANS
-THE PLACE WHERE REVIVALS MUST BEGIN
PRAYER AND PERSONAL EFFORT THE WORKING OF
SOCIAL PRINCIPLE.

PRIVATE
THE

LIKE the land of Israel in the days of Elijah, the Churches are withering away for the want of a revival shower. The exceptions are rare. All acknowledge these facts with regret, and look out and abroad for relief, whether they commence to work at home to secure it or not. This delineation is true at this writing. We hope it may not be, dear reader, when it falls into your hands.

What is a revival, and how can we, how