John W. Redfield was a remarkable revivalist among the Methodists and Free Methodists. He died not many years ago. From his memoir,...

A captain’s widow, whom I knew for many years of our chapel, was much concerned for the conversion of her son, who was a sailor. For a...

Away on the western coast of England there stands a steep rock that is known to everybody as’ the “Lady’s Rock.” At high water it is...

How continually, as we follow the Lord closely, do His own blessed teachings, His own words, come with full force to our memory, clothed...

The following is from the Autobiography of that wonderful revivalist, Charles G. Finney. The circumstances as related occurred early in...

I. In the spring of 1858, during the prevalence of the wide-spread revivals described in Prime’s “Power of Prayer,” I was soundly...

Melville B. Cox was the first missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church to Africa. He labored in Liberia but a short time, and died....

Robert Green was born and brought up a slave in Charleston, S.C. His master was a Methodist minister, who owned a large number of slaves,...

In the year 1874, a little band of humble Christians was formed in Chicago, having for its one object the salvation of souls. Four of the...

All dreams that make you better are from God. How do I know it? Is not God the source of all good? It does not take a very logical mind...

During the spring of 1892, we held a five-weeks revival meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Harvey, the new temperance town...

The following is stated by Rev. B. Fay Mills: “Some of you have seen the great picture that was painted by Muncakszy, of the Christ. That...

In 1868, Mrs. Maggie Newton Van Cott held a revival meeting at Stone Ridge, Ulster Co., N. Y. At the opening of the meeting, she...

A child from a poor family had an intemperate father, who often used to abuse his wife and children. This child had been to the...

A Christian wife, whose husband was an officer on a Mississippi steamer (which was burned), as she prayed that her husband would be...

“I came home one night very late,” says the Rev. Matthew Hale Smith, in his Marvels of Prayer, “and had gone to bed to seek needed rest....

On his fiftieth birthday, Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was interviewed in reference to his long and eventful ministerial life, especially as to...

During the winter of 1885-86 we were called to hold a revival meeting in New Haven, Shiawassee county, Michigan. During the first few...

The Rev. Theodore Clapp, for many years a minister of religion in the city of New Orleans, narrates the following incident, which...

At the close of a prayer-meeting, the pastor observed a little girl, about twelve years of age, remaining upon her knees, when most of...