We have included this amazing autobiography in the Revival Library, not for its revival content, for it has none, but rather for its devotional value. Although Madame Guyon lived and died in the Catholic Church her shining life and writings won her both Catholic and Protestant admirers in France, Germany, Holland and England during her lifetime. Subsequently thousands have been drawn into a closer relationship with God by reading of her deep devotion to God recorded in her autobiography. In describing her writing she said," My earnest wish is to paint in true colours the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude." This perception of God's great grace, coupled with an acute awareness of her own sinful state, forms the heart of this story.

George Fox is not reckoned to be a revivalist of the same order as some of his Puritan predecessors or the next generation of revivalists like Edwards, Whitefield and Wesley. Nevertheless, he did accomplish a great work for God, and the Quaker movement, which he founded, numbered around 100,000 when he died in 1691.

He was clearly a lover of God but was quick to point out the faults of the established church. His first imprisonment in 1649 was for 'brawling in church' or contending with the preacher. He ministered for a number of years in the north Midlands and Yorkshire as an itinerant preacher and witnessed revivalistic scenes including shaking, groanings, cryings and many tears. Thousands were converted, mostly from the working classes.