Page

Frontspiece & Dedication

Introductory

Forward

PART I: My Birth and Early Life

3

My Childhood

6

Life On a Minnesota Farm

9

The Indian War

11

The Civil War

14

Early Religious Impressions

18

My Education

20

My Call to the Ministry

23

My First Churches

27

Temptations in the Ministry

33

My Appointment to Omaha

38

A Divine Conviction for the Deeper Christian Life

43

Popular Preaching

45

My Marriage

46

Preaching at Grand Island

50

Back to Omaha

51

I Leave the Methodist Church

53

I Buy a Church

56

Visions of the Night

60

Philip's Death

65

The Baptism of Fire

68

Results of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

74

The House of Hope

76

Funerals

87

Marriages

89

Prayers Answered

95

Healing the Sick

108

Casting Out Devils

107

Making a Living

112

The Future

117

PART II: Education of the Young

121

Knowledge of Ourselves and Others

123

Old Age

125

Preaching Without Fixed Salary

127

Why Don't God Kill the Devil?

130

My Relation to Merchants

132

PART III: Modern Christianity

137

Jesus Healing the Sick

145

Why I Fight Tobacco

149

A Year With the Comforter

156

The Hall Storm

162

My Last Chance

166