Title Page

Introduction

Preface

Poem - Thorns - But Roses

Dedication

PART I

1. A Start in Life
2. Struggle for an Education
3. Incidents of First Revival
4. Notable Happenings
5. Inconsistencies of No-Sects
6. Five Months' Revival
7. Demons Cast Out
8. Divine Healing
9. Shallow Revivals
10. Seeking Heart Purity
11. New Experiences
12. "In Persecutions Oft"
13. A Great Battle
14. The Tide Turns
15. Value of Confession
16. God Supplies Expenses
17. Self-forgetfulness Pays
18. Discretion toward Women
19. Honoring God in Little Things
20. What It Cost to Break the Sabbath
21. Omnipotent Faith
22. How I Came to Be a Publisher
23. Under for Fifteen Years
24. Downed But Not Defeated
25. Outliving Opposition
26. Time Must Explain Some Things
27. Old-time Persecutions -- (Facsimile of License for Preaching)
28. God Loved Me Too Well
29. Peculiar Covenants
30. Demotion and Promotion
31. Marvelous Grace
32. The Brooklyn Convention
33. Victory over Losses
34. Why Your Children Are Unsaved
35. What I Might Have Been
36. Saved from Sectarianism
37. How to Perpetuate the Honeymoon
38. Out of Divine Order
39. Confessions of Broken Hearts

PART II -- SOME OF MY MISTAKES AND WHAT THEY HAVE TAUGHT

1. Zeal without Knowledge
2. Too Secluded and Unsociable
3. Too Confidential
4. Getting Ahead of the Spirit
5. Dealing with Fanaticism
6. Defeating Our Own Object
7. Creature Comfort
8. Doing Right Things in a Wrong Way
9. A Commercial Turn of Mind
10. Stressing Minor Issues
11. Too Busy
12. Too Plain and Personal

PART III

1. Some of Shelhamer's Sayings
2. Another Thorn, Also a Rose
3. Canceling Calls
4. The Backward Glance
5. Thorns a By-product
6. A New Pleasure
7. A Thorn with Several Roses
8. Briers

PART IV

1. On the Death of Our Daughter, Evangeline
2. The Uncertainty of Life
3. Words of Her Mother, Spoken at the Funeral
4. Evangeline (Poetry)
5. From Her Brother -- To Evangeline in Heaven
6. Visit from an Angel
7. A Rare Jewel-by Her Husband