Helps to a Life of Holiness and Usefulness, or, Revival Miscellanies: Containing Eleven Revival Sermons, and Thoughts on Entire Sanctification - Revival Preaching - Methods to Promote Revivals - Effects of Revival Efforts - Revivals and the Terrors of Go…

xii, [13]-442 pp. A collection of writings on religious revivals by a Methodist minister and evangelist who was active in the United States, England and Canada. Caughey belonged to the Holiness movement. He therefore thought that justification and sanctification, in which a person's sins were forgiven and they became pure in God's sight, could be obtained instantly from a seeker who requested them from God in faith. He would appeal to the unconverted to make a first commitment to God, and to the converted to make a re-committal so as to receive the fullness of God's blessing. Caughey, like other American revivalists such as Charles Grandison Finney and Phoebe Palmer who preached in England in the 1840s, followed a "scientific" approach to converting sinners. They rented halls, advertised their meetings, preached and prayed for defined ends, encouraged sinners to confess openly at the communion rail, and trained their converts to bring others to the faith. Caughey was the first professional evangelist to campaign in the Canadas, and established a model for successors such as Dwight L. Moody. He influenced young men such as Albert Carman and Nathanael Burwash to become ministers, and thus had lasting influence on the Methodist church in Canada. However, Caughey is best known for his revival activity in Britain in the 1840s. Through the guidance he gave to Booth and others he had huge influence on evangelism in that country.