From the introduction:

Mr. Caughey, with a simplicity peculiarly his own, also reveals the effect produced upon his head and heart by the shafts of the enemies of revivals, which were so numerously and constantly hurled upon him during God’s great work. Letters of criticism and super-criticism, anonymous and otherwise, came to him almost daily at York. Sometimes they made him smile, sometimes they wounded him even to tears. Some of them drove him to his knees; from others he forged sharp arrows, with which he pierced anew the hearts of the King’s enemies. But none of them weakened his faith or unnerved his arm. Aided by Divine grace he made them all contribute to the progress of the work they were designed to retard. The mental processes and the heart struggles, by which he achieved this blessed result, are skillfully portrayed in these pages. In no other work is the inner life of a great revivalist so laid open to the view of others.

It is because the volume gives this view of Mr. Caughey’s interior life, of his feelings in public, in private, in the closet, and in the church, that it is fitly entitled, “Glimpses of Life in Soul-Saving.” Its style is often abrupt, but it is also strong. It has both grit and grip. It will enable the reader to understand readily the valuable truth which its writer means to communicate; his heart must be very hard if he is not at times very strongly impressed by its burning and impressive words. Trusting that it will be at least as successful and useful as the best of its predecessors, I commend it to the thoughtful attention of every earnest, working Christian. To them I am convinced it will be profitable. For formalists and lukewarm professors it will have no charms, albeit, they would doubtless be mightily quickened by it could they be induced to read it with candor and patience.

The Table of Contents are as follows:

Part 1

Chapter 1 — INTRODUCTORY NOTE

Chapter 2 — SIGHS FROM SOLITUDE

Chapter 3 — WAKEFIELD

Chapter 4 — THORPARCH

Chapter 5 — LEEDS

Chapter 6 — BANK HOUSE, MIRFIELD

Chapter 7 — SHEFFIELD

Chapter 8 — YORK — BUCKLING ON THE ARMOR

Chapter 9 — TAKE HEED TO THYSELF, AND UNTO THY DOCTRINE — 1 Tim., iv. 16.

Chapter 10 — WISE FOR BOTH WORLDS

Chapter 11 — LIFE IN PREACHING

Chapter 12 — SPIRITUAL TACTICS IN YORK

Chapter 13 — BIRDS OF PARADISE

Chapter 14 — THE SURE FOUNDATION — A SERMON

Chapter 15 — SURE FOUNDATION — A SERMON

Chapter 16 — THE GREAT TEST — A SERMON

Chapter 17 — THE GREAT DISTINCTION — A FRAGMENT

Chapter 18 — RETURN ARROWS

Chapter 19 — MORE RETURN ARROWS

Chapter 20 — WALLED CITIES — A PRIVATE HINT

Chapter 21 — STRAY ARROWS

Chapter 22 — MORE STRAY ARROWS — HOLINESS

Chapter 23 — THE COMPLAINING MORALIST

Chapter 24 — THE PRINCE OF MORALISTS

Chapter 25 — MORE FOR THE COMPLAINING MORALIST

Chapter 26 — FRAGMENTS FOR THE COMPLAINING MORALIST

Chapter 27 — THE INQUIRING MORALIST

Chapter 28 — A FRAGMENT

Chapter 29 — GOADS FOR THE TARDY

Chapter 30 — PRIMITIVE PATRONS OF THE GOSPEL — A SERMON

Chapter 31 — A LOUD BLAST IN THE EAR OF MAMMON — SERMON

Chapter 32 — PLAIN DEALING WITH CERTAIN CHARACTERS — A SERMON

Chapter 33 — EARNEST DEALING WITH AWAKENED SINNERS — A SERMON

Chapter 34 — PARENTAL AUTHORITY — THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG — A SERMON

Chapter 35 — A VOICE TO THE PENITENT AND IMPENITENT — A SERMON

Part 2

Chapter 36 — POSITIONS OF THE WORLD AND THE CHURCH — JOURNAL

Chapter 37 — HOLINESS OF HEART — A PARADISE — JOURNAL

Chapter 38 — PENCILINGS OF THE REVIVAL IN YORK

Chapter 39 — DAVID GREENBURY — A CHARACTER

Chapter 40 — HOLINESS — AN ARGUMENT FOR — POTENT WITH BELIEVERS

Chapter 41 — THE LAW SERMON

Chapter 42 — MORE ABOUT THE LAW SERMON

Chapter 43 — MORE ABOUT THE LAW SERMON — ASPECTS OF THE AUDIENCE

Chapter 44 — IN THE FURNACE

Chapter 45 — PROGRESS OF THE REVIVAL IN YORK

Chapter 46 — AGAIN IN THE FURNACE

Chapter 47 — BELIEVING FOR SANCTIFICATION

Chapter 48 — SANCTIFICATION ENTIRE — WHY WITHHELD

Chapter 49 — GAINING STRENGTH

Chapter 50 — ANONYMOUS AND ANNOYING LETTERS

Chapter 51 — THE REVIVAL IN YORK — NOTICED

Chapter 52 — LIFE FROM THE DEAD

Chapter 53 — PROGRESS OF THE REVIVAL IN YORK

Chapter 54 — A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE TELESCOPE

Chapter 55 — MORE NOTES OF THE REVIVAL IN YORK

Chapter 56 — SUDDEN DEATH OF A LEADER

Chapter 57 — NOTES OF MEN AND THINGS IN YORK

Chapter 58 — THE CORNERSTONE AND THE WORM

Chapter 59 — MEETING THE NEW CONVERTS

Chapter 60 — YORK CASTLE

Chapter 61 — CONCLUDING NOTES OF THE YORK REVIVAL

About the author:

James Caughey (1810-1891) was a Methodist minister and evangelist who served the Lord in the United States, Canada, and England. He was well known for his revivals, and it was typical for many to be led to salvation under his ministry.

Born in Ireland, he and his family moved to New York while he was yet a child. He was converted at the age of 20, and began his ministry a short two years later.

He is probably best known for his revivals in England in the 1840s, where he converted many, including William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. In addition to these meetings, he was the first 'professional' evangelists to tour Canada, and inspired D. L. Moody greatly by his preaching.