Author's Dedication

Introduction By Rev. B. T. Roberts

Author's Introduction

Birth - Early Impressions of Being Called to Preach - Conversion - First Religious Labors

Fighting against God - Running from Duty - Strange Experiences

Settling the Controversy - A Long and Hard Struggle - The Victory Gained

Starting Out to Preach - First Field of Labor - Successful Efforts - Incidents, etc.

The Old Struggle Renewed - Call to Preach Confirmed - Determined Rebellion - Off the Track

Acting Jonah's Part - Turns Infidel - Studying Anatomy - Investigates Natural, Mental, and Moral Science - Escape from Atheism - A Presumptuous Marriage Engagement

Reaping as He Sowed - Bitter Consequences of His Presumptuous Marriage - His Own Story

Respite from Trouble - Dawn of Better Days - His Own Story Concluded - Respite from Domestic Difficulty - Followed by Sad Bereavements

In Lockport, N.Y. - Keeping Bachelor's Hall - A Strange Impression - Avows Abolition Principles - Licensed to Preach - Goes to Cleveland, Ohio

A Winter in Cleveland - Lectures against Slavery - Forms the First Anti-Slavery Society - Story of a Fugitive Slave

Returns to Lockport - Seeks Entire Sanctification - Erroneous Seeking - House to House Visitation Incidents - Revival Work

Serious Illness - A Winter in New York City - Wasting with Consumption - Healed on Consenting to Take Up the Work of the Ministry - Preaching in New York - The Great Night - A Striking Coincidence

Great Revival in New York - Wonderful Manifestations of Divine Power - Assaults of Temptation - Seeking Holiness Again

Still Seeking Entire Sanctification - Encouraged by a Father in Israel - Hears of Dr. and Mrs. Palmer - Prejudiced against Them by Evil Testimony - Goes to Camp Meeting - Seeking Amiss - Attends Another Camp Meeting - Meets the Palmers - Mrs. Palmer Shows Him the Way of God More Perfectly - Endeavoring to Enter Beulah - Yielding All - Taught of the Spirit - Tempted - Triumphs by Faith - Jumps the Chasm - Sanctified Wholly - Abiding Joy

Mr. Redfield's Pastor - Mr. Redfield as a Class Leader - Appoints Holiness Meetings - A Hundred Persons Sanctified - Many Sinners Converted - Church Membership Greatly Increased - Two New Churches Formed - Opposition to the Holiness Movement - Mr. Redfield's Determination - Severe Tests - Victory Gained - Invited to Labor in Another Church - Accepts the Call - Successful Labors

Change of Pastors - Mr. Redfield Still Engaged in Revival Work - Charged with Heresy by the New Pastor - Vindicates Himself - License to Preach Renewed - Opposition to the Holiness Teaching of Mr. Redfield and Others Continued - Bishop Hamline - A Defender and Promoter of the Holiness Work - Becomes Mr. Redfield's Confidential Adviser, etc.

Urged to Unite with the Conference - Considering the Matter - Reasons Which Determined Him Against It - Becomes an Evangelist - Contemporary with Caughey, Finney, Burchard and Knapp - Twenty Miles Above New York - Successful Labors - A New Church - The Dedication - A Convert's Exhortation - Good Results

Laboring in a Mission Church in the Suburbs of New York - Method with Proselytizers - A Powerful Revival - Incidents - The Mission Church Made Self-sustaining - Proselytizing Ministers Dismissed from Their Pastorate - The Sequel - Mr. Redfield's Reflections Concerning Opposition to the Thorough Work of God - More Incidents - Achans Discovered and Disposed of Strange Experience of a Colored Woman

Goes from New York to a Neighboring City - His Way to Success in One Church Blocked - Goes to Another Church - Great Success Attending His Labors - Hopes for a General Revival of the Doctrine and Experience of Holiness - Disappointed by Hostility Among Ministers - Encouraged by a Bishop - Opposition to His Revival Labors Continues - Open Doors in Mortgaged Churches and among Demoralized Societies - Cause of the Opposition to Holiness Discovered - Laboring in the Church of a Sick Pastor - Opposed and Slandered by the Sick Man - Mr. Redfield's Prediction Concerning Him - The Prophecy Speedily Fulfilled - A Class Leader Sanctified - Turns Exhorter and Addresses the Employees in a Factory - The Class Leader Shouting - Mr. Redfield Called For by an Excited Church Member - Joins the Class Leader in Praising God - Visits a Lady Dying of Consumption - She is Saved and Healed at the Same Time - Instances Illustrating Victory Over Death

A Summer on Long Island - Preaching in the Villages on Sundays - Personal Experiences - Called to Occupy a Vacant Pulpit until the Time for Beginning His Revival Work - Condition of the Charge - Beginning His Labors - Visiting One of the Principals in an Old Church Quarrel - Visits an Old-time Methodist - His First Sabbath on the New Charge - Efforts with Sinner - Repulsed - The Second Sabbath - Sharply Criticized - A Week of Desperate Struggling for Victory - The Third Sabbath - Victory and How It Came - Goes on Invitation of Methodist, - Baptist, and Presbyterian Ministers to Labor in Another Place - His Method of Work - Strong and Persistent Opposition - Baptist and Presbyterian Ministers Start Separate Services - Opposition Overcome - Glorious Results of Fidelity to God - Preaching Holiness Conducive to the Awakening and Conversion of Sinners - A Tea Party Turned into a Revival

Leading a Brother Minister into the Experience of Perfect Love - An Illustration of His Method with Seekers - Invited to Labor on the Minister's Charge - How to Get Ready for a Revival - The Sanctified Minister Preaching Holiness - Many Sanctified - Mr. Redfield Goes to His Aid - Conversation with the Pastor - Revival Efforts Begin - Visitation - An Infidel and His Wife Converted - The Whole Town Awakened - Many Converted - Nearly all Testify that Their Convictions - Dated from the time the Pastor Began to Preach Holiness - Mr. R_____ goes to Labor in Another City - Proselytizing Ministers Oppose His Work - Wicked Persecution from a Universalist Preacher - The Persecuting Preacher's Death from Delirium Tremens

Overworked - Severe and Protracted Illness - Going Home to Die - His Sickness Not unto Death, but for the Glory of God - His Own Account of This Experience - A Remarkable Vision - Tells of the Triumphant Death of Two Sisters - Recovering From His Illness - Preaches in New York City - Dines at Dr. Palmer's - Relates an Account of the Vision He Had During His Sickness - Mrs. Palmer's Opinion of Such Experiences - Deathbed Incidents Related

Entering the Evangelistic Field Again - Hope for the Church Revived - Invited to Labor on the Charge of a Brother Minister Where a Revival Was in Progress - The Revival Stopped - Leaving the Place Under Divine Direction - Cause of the Work Ceasing - Visitations of Judgment - Goes to Another and a Peculiar Field - Incidents in Visitation - Method of Work - A Minister's Opposition and Discourtesy - Favorable Results - Attending a Camp Meeting - Counseled by Worldly-wise Preachers - Adopts their Counsel - Shorn of Strength - Plain Dealing by a Godly Colored Man - Power Restored - The Lesson Learned - Another Field - A Clergyman Invested with Authority to Use the Rod Attempts to Intimidate the Young People, and so Deter Them from Attending Mr. Redfield's Meetings - Opposition Overruled for Good - Visits the Charge of One of the Ministers - Who Counseled Him at the Camp Meeting - State of the Work - Mr. Redfield's Exercises - Leaves the Place under an Impression that God Had Withdrawn from His People

Called to Middletown, Conn. - Dreading the Conflict - State of the Work and Character of Mr. Redfield's Labors - Described by Superintendent Roberts - The Work Endorsed and Aided by President Olin - Three Hundred Students Converted at the Church - They Form Praying Bands and - Carry on the Work in the College - President Olin Undertakes to Give a Ten Minutes' Address to the Students - The Minutes Run into Hours - The Address Published as One of Dr. Olin's - Most Masterly Intellectual Productions - Four Hundred Conversions in All - Twenty-six of the College Students Become Ministers - William C. Kendall Here Learns the Art of Soul-Saving - Mr. Redfield spends a Sabbath in New Jersey and Preaches for an Absent Pastor - Goes to Labor in Another Church in the Same State - Effects of His Preaching - Embarrassed by Questions Concerning His Domestic Trouble - Requests an Interview with Two - residing Elders - Counseled to Get a Divorce - The Divorce Obtained

Mr. Redfield's Pastor Opposing Him - A Faithful Presiding Elder Takes His Part - Character of Those Who Opposed the Holiness Work - Features of the Holiness Revivals - Laboring to Maintain Himself and Preach the Gospel without Charge - Invited to Assist Caleb Lippincott - Opposition from Universalists - Slandered by Their Paper - Defends Himself - The Tide Turns - Returns to New York City - Successful Labors - A Prosperous Revival Killed by an Untimely Marriage Ceremony - Labors in Another of the City Churches - Five Hundred Added to the Church - Encouragements - Peck's "Central Idea of Christianity" - The Men Enlisted in the Holiness Controversy - Mr. Redfield Goes to Philadelphia - Laboring in St. George's M. E. Church - The Pastor Enters Heartily into the Work - Another Minister Opposes - The Truth Triumphant - Invited to Another Church to Preach on Holiness - A Great Work - Wonderful Scenes - Meetings Abruptly Closed by the Frightened Pastor - Preaches in Two Other Churches - Meetings in Private Houses - A Glorious Work - Visits Many Places Briefly - Many Saved

Mr. Redfield Visits Long Island Again - Revivals Break Out in Various Places - Visits the Former Home of Freeborn Garrettson - Meets Mr. Garrettson's Widow - A Token of Friendship - Fifty Saved - Revival in C_____ - In the Suburbs of New York Again - Leaves After a Comparatively Barren Season of Labor - Peculiar Leadings toward Cincinnati - Goes to Goshen - Opposition from the Leading Church, the Secular Press, Rumsellers, and Infidels - Opposition Checked by the Interposition of Providence - Proselytizing Efforts and How Mr. Redfield Dealt with Them - Incidents - Holiness Tested - Triumph in Suffering and Death - Mr. Redfield Proceeds to Another Field - Dealing with Rowdies - One Hundred Conversions - Visits Long Island Again - Disturbed by Rowdies - Demands and Secures Order - Disturbers Converted - Holiness Meetings - Many Saved

At Chelsea, Mass. - Waited Upon by a Committee - Unitarians and Universalists Offended - The Methodist Church Rid of a Unitarian and a Universalist Class Leader - The Work Progressing in the Face of Strong Opposition - One Hundred Converted - Goes to Boston - An Embarrassed Pastor - No Opening in Boston - Returns to Chelsea - Invited Back to Boston - Small Beginning - Enlargement and Success - Strong Endorsement - Invited by the Clergy to Spend a Year in Boston - Engagement calls Him Away to U_____ - Great Interest Awakened - Many Conversions - Proselytizers and How They Worked - A Local Preacher Who preached Regularly in His Sleep

Goes to Newburgh - Preaches the Truths of Early Methodism - Episcopalians Shout Over the New Found Joy of Holiness, While Methodists Get Angry and Oppose the Work - Newburgh Camp Meeting - Mr. Redfield's Labors Crowned with Wonderful Success - One hundred Converted in a Single Night - Incidents Illustrating Mr. Redfield's Method with Seekers

Visiting a Village Near Newburgh - The Sabbath Services Conducted by the Pastor - Mr. Redfield Exhorts in the Evening Service - An Influential Citizen Reproves the Pastor - Mr. Redfield's Reflections and Discouragements - Rev. Fay H. Purdy -- A Man after Mr. Redfield's Own Heart - A Camp Meeting Incident - War Against Holiness - The Sad Results Described - Mr. Redfield at Peekskill - Successful Labors

At the Marine Hospital in New York - Method with the Sailors - Favorable Results - The Lesson Learned - Invited by the Chaplain to Visit Sing Sing State Prison - His Own Account of His Labors in the Prison - Incidents of Prison Visitation - Obtaining Pardon for a Prisoner - Holds a Series of Meetings at Sing Sing - Opposition - Victory - Many Saved

At Bridgeport, Conn. - A Church in Debt Twelve Thousand Dollars for Pride - Desire a Revival to Help Them Out of Debt - Faithful Work -

A Frightened Pastor - Fay H. Purdy Assists in the Meetings - Mr. Redfield Accused of Bigotry by Pastors of Other Churches - Meets the Accusation Wisely - Proselytizing Cured - Five Hundred Converted - Mr. Redfield Requested to Receive the Converts into the Church - Address to the Candidates - Receives One Hundred - Four Hundred More Soon Unite - The Debt Paid - Another Church Built - Plain Dealing Makes Good Methodists - Anecdote of Bishop Hedding

Invited to New Haven - Great Spiritual Conflict -Deciding to Go - His Reception and Introduction - Defines His Purpose in Plain Terms - Begins His Work - Frightened Methodists - Waited Upon by a Sensitive Class Leader - Encouraged by an Ex-Mayor - Endorsed by a Lawyer - The Pastor's Fears Allayed - A Mocking Rabble - Preaching Wholly to the Church - The Official Board Requests Him to Change His Course and Labor for Sinners - The Reply - Mr. Redfield's Manner of Convincing the Critics - Meetings Appointed for Seekers of Holiness - Believers Sanctified - The Revival Breaks Out in Power - Hundreds Converted - The Work Spreads into Other Churches - One of them Receives Four Hundred Accessions - The Revival Reaches the College - Many Students Converted - Fruits of the Revival - Fifteen Hundred Converted

Invited to Stamford, Conn. - A Conversation with the Pastor - Beginning His Work - The Pastor Criticizes and Objects to His Method - Allowed to Go on in His Own Way - Testimonies Endorsing the Work - A Doctor Offended - Advising that Mr. Redfield Be Shut Up - The Work Goes on in Power

Attending a Camp Meeting - Remarkable Illustration of the Power of Grace to Save - Experience of an Indian Preacher - Story Related by the Son of an Indian Chief - Mr. Redfield Attends Another Camp Meeting - Meets the Converted Son of a Jewish Rabbi - Story of the Converted Jew - Method with a Man in Despair Over the Doctrine of Election - A Holiness Meeting in a Private House - Strange Conduct of a Gentleman Boarder - A Man Forsaken of God

Invited to Return to Stamford - Condition of Methodism in That Vicinity - Meetings Forced to a Close - The African M. E. Church Opened - A Glorious Work - Returns for One Service to the Closed Church - A Young Preacher Seeks Holiness - Invites Mr. Redfield to Visit His Charge Five Miles Away - A Conversation Between Them - The Invitation Accepted - The First Service - The Young Preacher Seeking Holiness - A Time of Wonderful Power - Skeptics Awakened - Glorious Times - Mr. Redfield Goes to a Small Village to Help a Conference Preacher - Bad Condition of Affairs - A Short Stay - Attending a Camp Meeting in Central New York - Opposition to Holiness - A Sermon Against the Wesleyan Doctrine Introduces Much Confusion - A Speech from Rev. Hiram Mattison - Sanctified by Progression - Brother Purdy Endeavors to Calm the Storm - Purdy's Test and How it was Received - Mr. Redfield's Reflections - Seeking Greater Power to Fit Him for the Work to Be Done

A Visit to Syracuse, N.Y. - Reappearance of His Old Sign - This Regarded As a Sure Token of a Gracious Revival - Returns to New York - Soon Recalled to Syracuse - Experiences a Singular Manifestation on the Way - Meetings at Salina - State of the Work - Strange Phenomena - Mr. Redfield Study of These Exercises and His Method of Dealing with Them - His Advice Concerning Them - Reflections

Labors at Salina Continued - Preaching Holiness - Discovers That the People Are Not Ready for That Experience - Preaches on Justification - Finds That He Has Made a Mistake Again - Begins to Preach the First Principles of the Kingdom of God - Burdened for Souls - Demonstrations - The Curious Investigating the Strange Phenomena, and Endeavoring to Account for Them - Attempting to Imitate the Demonstrations - Experience of a Unitarian Lady - Mr. Redfield's Thorough Dealing - Conversation with a Unitarian Minister - The Unitarian Minister Publicly Endorsing the Meetings - Mr. Redfield Exposes His Infidelity - Results of the Salina Revival

Requesting the Privilege of Holding Meetings in the Church of a Methodist Pastor in Syracuse - The Denial - A Call From Palmyra - Incidents on the Way - Stops at the Residence of Fay H. Purdy on Reaching Palmyra - Purdy's Account of the State of the Work - Mr. Redfield at His Boarding Place - Meets Brother B_____ - Brother B_____'s Devotions - Mr. Redfield goes to Morning Service to Hear the Pastor Preach - Hears a Commotion in the Basement of the Church - "Awful Times" - The Pastor Tried Over Brother B_____'s Exercises - A Conversation with the Pastor - Mr. Redfield Goes with Him to Dinner - Further Conversation about Brother B____'s Exercises - The Pastor Agrees to Stand by Brother B_____ - Endorses Him at the Evening Services - Greatly Blessed - Loses His Strength - War Begins in the Church - Attendance Increases - The Work goes on in Power - Thirty Converted in One Meeting - Five Hundred Conversions in a Few Weeks - Other Fruits of the Revival -

A Call from a Congregational Church in Syracuse - The Call Accepted - Visits Two of the Deacons - Conversation with the Deacons - Beginning the Work - A Deacon's Protest - Mr. Redfield's Answer - The Congregation Vote to approve Mr. Redfield's Measures - The Deacon Renews his Opposition - The Congregation Again Sustain Mr. Redfield - The Work Goes On - The Deacon Makes a Startling Confession - Two Presbyterian Elders Prostrated by the Power - A Young Lady's Confession - Remarkable Conversion of a Unitarian Lady - The Unitarians Alarmed - They Send for Theodore Parker - His Stay Cut Short by a Storm Which Greatly Damaged the Unitarian Church - Fruit Remaining in After Years

Invited to Albion, N.Y., by Rev. Wm. C. Kendall - Well Received at First - Marked Manifestations of God's Power - Prostrations - Commotion in the Congregation - Some Frightened and Some Angry - Mr. Redfield Charged with Mesmerizing the Prostrate Ones - Similar Phenomena Occur Outside and Miles Away from the Church - Mr. Kendall in Full Sympathy with the Work - Wonderful Success - An Incident Illustrating Clerical Hostility to the Work - Mr. Redfield's Feelings Described by Himself - A Searching Sermon - Slandered by a Brother Minister - The Minister's Evil Designs Exposed - Mr. Redfield's Observation Concerning Opposers of Holiness - The Origin of the Free Methodist Church - Further Account of the Minister Who Opposed the Albion Revival - Incident Illustrating the Thoroughness of Mr. Redfield's Work - Color Distinctions Done Away - Letter from Mr. Kendall - A Letter from Dr. Redfield

Goes to Bridgeport, Conn. - Burdened for the Work - A Baptist Deacon Sanctified - A Great Ingathering of Souls - A New Church Built - Incidents of the Revival - Visiting and Laboring Amid the Scenes of His Childhood - A Prosperous Beginning - The Meetings Abruptly Closed by the Pastor - Visiting the Graves of His Parents and Other Sainted Dead - Weeping Over the Desolations of Zion

Invited to Henrietta, N.Y. - Meets the Presiding Elder on the Way - The Elder's Questioning and Remarks - The Pastor, Rev. J. K. Tinkham, an Agreeable Co-laborer - Church Members Confessing their Delinquencies - Two Infidel Sons of One of the Members Converted - They Work for the Conversion of Others with Marked Success - A Minister Opposing the Work - Mr. Redfield's Method Brings the Opposition to a Close - The Opposing Minister Saved - The Sexton's Experience - Mr. Purdy's Assistance in the Work - An Interesting Letter - Mr. Redfield Goes to Work at Another Field - Request of the Presiding Elder - A Desolate Field - Work in the Presiding Elder's Family - A Trifling Pastor - An Old Minister of the Right Stamp - Consecrating for Faithful Work - Urging Inconsistent Church Members to Take a Stand - Accused by a Local Preacher of Insulting the People - Another Public Denunciation - The Local Preacher Accused of Crime - The Proof - The Congregation Vote in Favor of Having the Plain Truth Preached - Urging to Action - Appealing to the Sense of Honor in Inconsistent Professors - A Tempest - Mr. Redfield Newly Commits the Work to God - A Night of General Awakening in the Community - A Large Ingathering of Souls the Result

Another Field - The Melodeon and the Choir - Beginning at the Foundation - Waited Upon by a Committee - Informed of Reports Concerning His Great Wealth, etc. - His Answer - The Work Deep and Extensive - Five Hundred Converted - A Young Lady Is Converted and Leads Eleven Others to Christ in Less Than an Hour - The Pastor Seeking Holiness - Afterward Compromises - Mr. Redfield Goes to Bath - Raising the Standard of Holiness - The Work Breaks Out in Power - Satan's Device to Bring it into Disrepute - Strange Actions of a Doctor's Wife - A Converted Jeweler

At Buffalo, N.Y. - Labors in the Niagara St. M. E. Church - Rev. B. T. Roberts, Pastor - State of the Work - Revival Begins - Incidents - Mr. Redfield Talks with One of the Bishops - The Bishop Unfavorable to His Work - Dr. Stevens' Views of Luxuries etc. - A Sharp Conflict in the Genesee Conference over the Holiness Issue - Position of Mr. Roberts, W. C. Kendall, and Eleazer Thomas - A Lawyer's Interference with Mr. Redfield's Work - The Work Forced to a Close - The Niagara St. Church Sold for Debt - Becomes First a Jewish Synagogue, then a Masonite Temple - Interesting Letter from Dr. Redfield - Leaving Buffalo for Townsendville - Assisting J. K. Tinkham - A Glorious Revival - From Townsendville to P_____ B_____ - Revisiting Syracuse - Building a Church - Opposition - Endorsed by the Presiding Elder - The Third M. E. Church Organized - The Presiding Elder's Administration Criticized - Conference Appoints a Preacher to the Third Church - The Conference Preachers Oppose the Freedom of the Spirit - A Noble Layman - History of the New Society - Finally Becomes Attached to the Free Methodist Church at Its Organization - Mr. Redfield in Burlington, Vermont

Great Revival in Burlington - Mr. Purdy Prepares the Way - The Pastor Favorable to Old-time Methodism - Opposition from Other Churches - The Work Spreading - More than One Thousand Converted - A Second Church Organized - Attempts to Impair Mr. Redfield's Influence - Slanderous Reports - Mr. Redfield's Influence upon the Second Church - Letter from Rev. R. B. Howard in "The Congregationalist" Referring to Dr. Redfield and His Work - A Letter from the Same Writer, in the "California Christian Advocate" - Rev. Howard and Dr. Goodell Both Converted under Mr. Redfield's Labors at Burlington - Letter from Mr. Redfield to Rev. W. C. Kendall - Engaged with Another Physician in Establishing an Infirmary - A Letter Concerning this Enterprise - Another Letter Concerning the Revival in Burlington, and a Branch Infirmary Established There - Comments on the Foregoing Letters

Second Marriage - One of His Reasons for Marrying - The Lady Who Became His Wife - Married at Keesville, N.Y. - Influence of His Marriage upon His Work - In the Evangelistic Field Again - At Lima, N.Y. - A Letter Concerning the State of Things at Lima and the Character of the Work - Leaving Lima - A Card from Rev. Woodruff Post - Genesee Conference Troubles - Opposition to Messrs. Kendall, Roberts, Stiles, McCreery, and Others - The Laymen's Camp Meetings at Bergen, N.Y. - Hostility of the Church Authorities - The Church Takes Advantage of a Technicality in the Article of Incorporation and Wrests the Camp Ground from those Who Paid for It - Before the Litigation Is Ended the Trees Cut off - Mr. Redfield Suffers from this Persecution

Labors in Rochester, N.Y. - A Presiding Elder's Opposition - The Pastor Takes His Stand Against the Elder - Scenes of Primitive Methodism Reappear - The Pastor Frightened Says the Meetings Must Stop - Other Methodist Pastors Opposing the Work - Three Thousand Dollars Subscribed toward Building a New Church - Dr. Redfield Requested to Become Pastor of the New Society - Mr. Redfield Declines the Proposal - An Invitation to St. Charles, Ill. - Meetings in Rochester Attended and Endorsed by President Finney - Results of the Work in Rochester - Mrs. James Vick - Mr. Redfield Writes and Addresses to Samuel - Huntington a Sketch of His Life - First Attempt at Self-vindication - Another Letter to S. Huntington - Leaving Rochester - Visiting William C. Kendall - Their Last Visit, and Last Earthly Parting - Persecution of Mr. Redfield's Friends - "The Christian Advocate" Becomes the Organ of the Opposition - "The Northern Independent" Opens its Columns in Defense of Primitive Methodism - William Hosmer - Rev. B. T. Roberts Writes on "Old School Methodism," and "New School Methodism" - Charged with Unchristian Conduct Because of Having Written those Articles - His Trial - The Sentence - Appeal to The General Conference - Mr. Roberts Expelled, the Following Year, on the Charge of Contumacy - Proved Innocent - A Minister's Testimony Impeached - Mr. Roberts Joins the Church Again on Probation - The Minister Who Received Him Expelled for So Doing - Other Ministers Expelled for Allowing Mr. Roberts to Speak in Their Churches

Mr. Redfield Goes to St. Charles, Ill. - Rev. David Sherman - A List of Worthies - Results of the Work - Forty Sanctified - Clear Conversions - Experience of Charles Elliott Harroun - "The St. Charles Pilgrims" - Letter to Samuel Huntington

Still at St. Charles - Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, Giving a View of the General State of the Work - Mr. Redfield in Aurora, Ill. - A Goodly Number Experience Perfect Love - Recruiting at Mackinaw Island - Another Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Kendall - Mr. Redfield's Views Concerning Separation from the Church - Goes to Fond du Lac, Wis. - A Glorious Work Begins - A Pastor's Jealousy and Opposition - Mr. Redfield Under Temptation to Return to His Old Profession - Providentially Restrained - Goes to New London - Many Blessed - From New London to Jefferson, Wis. - Labors Attended with Blessed Results - Hears of the Grievous Fall of One Who Had Been a Strong Advocate of Holiness - Labors at Waukesha - Many Saved - Visit to Appleton, Wis. - The Seat of Lawrence University - Professor Blair and Rev. Wm. McDonald - An Infidel Sentiment in the Community and in the University - Incidents of the Work - Many Saved - Mr. Redfield Revisits St. Charles - Attending the St. Charles Camp Meeting - The Presiding Elder Friendly - Mr. Redfield Preaches on Perfect Love - A Remarkable Night - An Impromptu Preachers' Meeting for Holiness - Fifteen Ministers Enter into the Experience During the Night - Results - The Work in "The Fox River Region"

Letter to the Kendalls - A Letter from W. C. Kendall - Conspiracy of Persecutors - Kendall, Roberts, and McCreery the Victims - Scene at the Reading of the Conference Appointments - Letter from Kendall to Roberts Describing His New Circuit - Letter to A. A. Phelps - Mr. Kendall's Last Appointment - Account of His Death - Scene at the Funeral - Sketch of His Character - Testimonial from Father Coleman

Mr. Redfield Again in St. Charles, Ill. - Letter to Brother and Sister Kendall - Plan for Forming a Methodist Colony in Texas - Goes to Elgin, Ill. - The Elgin Pastor - Method of Conducting the Work - Results - Invited to Marengo, Ills. - Deciding to Go - A Telegram Announcing Wm. C. Kendall's Illness - Letter in Reply - At Marengo - State of the Work - Communication from Superintendent Hart - A Wonderful Work - Four or Five Hundred Converted - Whiskey Shops Closed - Many Sanctified - Conversion of a Village Drayman - A Physician Sanctified and Enters the Ministry - "Mother Cobb" - "Mother Combs" - The Mother of Superintendent Hart - The Pastor of the Church - Holiness Meetings at Brother Bishop's - Mr. Redfield Receives Tidings of Mr. Kendall's Death - Letter of Condolence to Mrs. Kendall - Extract from a Letter - Fruit of the Marengo Revival Not Properly Cared For

At Woodstock, Ill. - Condition of the Work - Strange Experience at an Altar Service - Determined Opposition to the Work - Methods Employed to Obstruct the Work - The Pastor Brought into Close Quarters Takes His Place As a Seeker of Holiness - Effect upon the People - A Wonderful Work of Grace - Results - Mr. Redfield Drawn toward St. Louis - Planning to Go - At Queen Anne Prairie - St. Charles Camp Meeting - Witness of Perfect Love Raised Up by Mr. Redfield's Labors - Liberty Given Mr. Redfield at the Camp Meeting - Sanctification the Keynote of the Meeting - An Anti-Rum, Anti-Tobacco, and Anti-Holiness Sermon - The Beginning of Hostility to Holiness on the Fox River District

Mr. Redfield Visits Western New York - Attends a General Quarterly Meeting - Encouragement - Returns to Illinois - Letter to Mrs. Kendall - Attending Camp Meeting at Coral, Ill. - Presiding Elder Crews - Holiness Work the Prominent Feature of the Meeting - The Sunday Afternoon Services - The Presiding Elder Sanctified - Preparing to Visit St. Louis - Visits St. Charles on the Way South - Letters to Mrs. Kendall

A Farewell Prayer Meeting - A Stop at Princeton Ill. - Another Letter to Mrs. Kendall - A Week at Burlington, Iowa - Reaches St. Louis - Boarding at Hotels - Looking for a Northern M. E. Church - Goes to the Ebenezer Church - Presents Letters of Introduction and of Membership to the Pastor - Preaching in St. Louis - Pawning His Watch to Pay a Board Bill - A Jew Acts the Part of the Good Samaritan - Way to Public Labor Hedged Up - Visitation - Good Results - Invited to Preach in a Colored People's Church - Labors Greatly Blessed - Preaching Occasionally in Ebenezer Church - Conversation with the Pastor - Invited by the Quarterly Conference to Hold a Series of Meetings in Ebenezer Church - Beginning the Work - Checked by the Pastor - A Telling Sermon - Letter from the Official Board Requesting Mr. Redfield's Dismissal - Conversation with the Pastor - Suspicion on the Part of Many That the Pastor was Responsible for This Action of the Board

Dr. and Mrs. Redfield Take Their Letters from Ebenezer Church - Resolutions Passed by Ninety Members - Calling for Church Letters - After Granting Twenty Letters the Pastor Refuses to Give More - Confesses Himself the Author of the Letter Purporting to Come from the Official Board - A Ministerial Fraud - Comment on the Resolutions - Letter to "The Northern Independent" - Comments on This Letter

Mr. Redfield Asked to Become Pastor of the Ninety Members Who had Seceded from Ebenezer Church - The Reply - Efforts to Organize with the Presiding Elder's Sanction - Disapproved by the Elder - Mr. Redfield Charged by the Pastor of Ebenezer Church with Splitting the Church - The Reply - Letter Requesting an Interview with Mr. Redfield at the Office of the "C. C. Advocate" - Mr. Redfield's Letter in Reply - Another Letter from M. E. Pastors - Pastor Williams Declares War - Rumors of Mob Policy - Mr. Redfield's Illness - Attendance at Church on Recovering - Resuming Work - A Methodist Church on the Congregational Plan - New Appointments - Visitors from Abroad and Their Reports - The Conflict in St. Louis - Mr. Redfield's Correspondence - Mental Conflicts - An Incident in Mr. Redfield's Personal Experience

Tidings from Western New York - Resolutions of the Laymen's Convention Requesting - Mr. Roberts and Mr. McCreery to Labor as Evangelists - Mr. Roberts invited by the New Church in St. Louis to Take Mr. Redfield's Place That He Might Be Free to Go Elsewhere - Mr. Roberts In St. Louis - New Organization Perfected - The Role against Slavery - Joseph Wickersham, Who Had Freed $30,000 Worth of Slaves - Plea for Toleration of Slavery Baseless - Another Resolution Passed by the Laymen's Convention - Reading Members out of the Church - Resolution of the Convention Concerning its Attitude toward the Church - Mr. Redfield's Description of the State of Affairs at This Time in St. Louis - The New Society in St. Louis Pass - Resolutions Concerning Mr. Redfield - The Editor of "The Central Christian Advocate" and the Pastor of Ebenezer Church Secure a Promise from Dr. Redfield not to have the Resolutions Published, at the Same time Agreeing to Publish Nothing Themselves Concerning Their Troubles - A Slanderous Article Which Soon Appeared in the "Advocate" - A Reply Prepared by a Committee - The "Central Advocate" Refuses to Publish It - The "St. Louis Christian Advocate," - Organ of the M. E. Church South, Publishes the Reply - A Copy of the Reply as Published - Mr. Redfield Starts for Quincy, Ill. - Soliloquizing on the Way - Arrival at Quincy - The Publication Preceded Him - Requested to Deposit His Letter and Stand a Trial - His Reply - President and Agent of the College Go to St. Louis to Ascertain the Facts - They Confer with None but Mr. Redfield's Accusers, and Are Convinced That He is in the Right - The Way Open for Work - A Lady's Experience and Dream - Beginning the Work in Quincy - A Baptist Minister Sanctified - An incident - Letter to Brother and Sister Foote

Wisdom of Mr. Redfield's Refusal to be Tried by the Ebenezer Church - Policy Pursued in Other Trials - Mr. Redfield Takes His Letter Again and Temporarily - Deposits It in the Southern Church - Accused of Compromising His Anti-slavery Principles - Staunch Friends Desert Him - Ex-Bishop Hamline's Attitude - Mr. Redfield Goes East - Handbills Charging Him and the New Society with Being Slaveholders - Rev. Seymour Coleman - Camp Meeting Near Sycamore, Ill. - Holiness the Theme - Father Coleman's Preaching - Holiness Testimonials Referring to Dr. Redfield's Labors - The Presiding Elder Hurt - Reproves These Testimonies - The Elder's remarks Published in the "N. W. Christian Advocate" - A Conversation Called Forth by the Elder's Testimony - A Camp Meeting near Aurora, Ill. - Benjamin Pomeroy - Father Coleman at His Best - Dr. T. M. Eddy - Father Coleman on Sunday Afternoon - Hon. Benjamin Hackney Experiences Entire Sanctification - His Testimony - Another Camp Meeting near Coral, Ill. - Mr. Redfield Present - Results of the Camp Meetings - E. P. Hart and J. H. Richardson Recommended to the Conference by the Rockford District - Presiding Elder H. Opposes Their Reception on the Ground That They Are "Tainted with Redfieldism" - Mr. Hart Admitted and Mr. Richardson rejected - Richardson Goes to Minnesota on a Presiding Elder's - Invitation, and Becomes a Successful Minister - Mr. Hart Still "Tainted with Redfieldism," and Spreading It in His Labors as a General Superintendent of the Free Methodist Church

The Author, Then a Local Preacher, Invited to Hold Meetings on Mt. Pleasant Circuit - The Invitation Accepted - The Work Moving - Help Needed - Mr. Redfield Sent for Conditions on Which He Would Come - Conditions Accepted - Beginning His Work - Manner of Procedure Described - A Powerful Sermon on the Judgment - Eighty Seekers at the Altar - The New Pastor Introduced - Sunday Services - Results - Preaching Prematurely on the Way of Faith - Going Deeper - An Eloquent Discourse on the "Final Catastrophe of the Earth" - Mr. Redfield returns to St. Charles - The Work Continues Three Weeks Longer - A Presiding Elder's Instructions as to How and When to Shout - Results of the Meetings - One Hundred Converted and Seventy-five Sanctified - A Sunday Night Scene in the Church - The Pastor's Confession - Asking the Prayers of the Congregation - A Terrible Struggle with Conviction - Rendering a Wrong Decision

Return to St. Charles - Attitude of the Preacher in Charge - Sent to Guard the Pulpit against Redfield and Coleman - Sacrificing Men for the Good of the Church - Mr. Redfield Invited into the Baptist Church - Beginning His Labors - The Church Closed Through the Influence of the Methodist Pastor - The Universalist Church Opened - Reading Members Out of the Methodist Church for Going to Hear Mr. Redfield Preach - New Way of Conducting a Methodist Prayer Meeting - Trustees Read Out of the Church - False Swearing - Prayer Meetings at Brother Foote's - Letters Written by Mr. Redfield

Dr. Redfield Returns to St. Louis - Spends an Evening with the Writer before Starting - Reviews His Life Work - Painful Surprise on Reaching St. Louis - The New Society Greatly Depleted - The Causes - Effect of This Disaster upon Mr. Redfield - Suffers a Paralytic Stroke - Ceases from Public Labors During the Winter - Under Medical Treatment - Able to Preach Again in the Spring - State of the Work in Several Places - Mr. Redfield Consulted as to What Should Be Done with Converts - His View's as Given by Himself - Mr. Redfield's Encouragements - Mary Ferguson Correspondence

Laymen's Convention at Olean, N.Y. - Every Charge in the Genesee Conference Represented by a Delegate - The Free Methodist Church, Which Had Been Organized, - Represented by a Delegate, Who Was Invited to a Seat in the Convention - Petitions to the General Conference - Resolution Endorsing the "Earnest Christian" - Report of the Committee on Resolutions - A Resolution Concerning Adherence to the Church - Remarks by J. McCreery, T. B. Catton, Wm. Hart, - B. T. Roberts, S. K. J. Chesbro and J. W. Reddy - Mr. Redfield Watching Genesee - Conference Proceedings from St. Louis - Letter from St. Louis

Dr. Elias Bowen's Account of the General Conference of May, 1860, and Its Treatment of the Appeal Cases - Review of General Conference Proceedings by - Wm. Hosmer in the "Northern Independent" - Difficulties in the West - Preachers Shut out of Churches and Schoolhouses - Severe Persecutions - Trial and Expulsion of the Bishop Family - An Impromptu Love-feast - Monday Night Holiness Meeting at Father Bishop's led by Father Coleman - Advice Concerning the Church Troubles - Failure of General Conference to Reinstate the Proscribed Ministers - Decisions against Bishops Who Presided at the Trials - Convention at St. Charles, Ill., in July, 1860 - A Similar Convention Called for the Same Object in Western N. Y. - Minutes of the Illinois Convention - General Laymen's Convention at Pekin, N. Y. - Organization of the Free Methodist Church and the Adoption of a Discipline - A Laymen's Convention at Aurora, Ill. Adopts the New Discipline - The Preachers Go Forth to Organize Free Methodist Churches - Mr. Redfield's Identification with the Organization of the New Church a Necessity

Mr. Redfield Returns to the West - Zealous Labors - Tour of Visitation among the Scenes of His Former Labors - Rev. E. P. Hart Withdraws from the M. E. Church and Takes Work under Mr. Redfield - Mr. Redfield at Aurora, Ill. - Stricken Down with Paralysis - Weeks of Severe Suffering Follow - The Trial of His Faith - A True and Faithful Friend - Improved Health - A Trip East - Holds Meetings in the Free Methodist Church in Buffalo - Correspondence - Return to Illinois - Attending a Quarterly Meeting - Outline of a Remarkable Sermon - Quarterly Meetings - St. Charles Camp Meeting - Hoping for Divine Healing - Mental Conflicts - Leaves Off Preaching Entirely - A Letter Written in Great Weakness of Mind and Body - Mr. Redfield's Plan for a Pilgrim's House - Attending a Camp Meeting in Ogle Co., Ill., in 1862 - A Scene of Confusion - Mr. Redfield Equal to the Emergency - A Visit to Buffalo and Syracuse - Looking to Be Healed in Answer to Prayer - Failing in Mind - Returning to the West - Attends the Illinois Annual Conference - The Last Letter of His Life - A Third Stroke of Paralysis - Rapid Ebbing Away of Life - The Death Scene - Funeral - The Epitaph - The Conqueror Crowned