| 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 Spiritual world, the fact
of it 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.
DANIEL WISE,
RALPH W. ALLEN.
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