- What a revival of religion is not
- What it is
- The agencies employed in promoting it.
- When a revival is needed
- The importance of a revival when it is needed
- When a revival of religion may be expected.
- What it is to break up the fallow ground
- How it is to be performed.
- What is effectual or prevailing prayer
- Some of the most essential attributes of prevailing prayer
- Some reasons why God requires this kind of prayer
- That such prayer will avail much.
- Faith an indispensable condition of prevailing prayer
- What it is we are to believe when we pray
- When we are bound to exercise this faith
- This kind of faith in prayer always obtains the blessing sought
- How we are to come into the state of mind in which we can exercise such faith
- Objections answered.
- What Spirit is spoken of in the passage: "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities"
- What that Spirit does for us
- Why He does what the text declares Him to do
- How He accomplishes it
- The degrees of His influences
- How His influences are to be distinguished from the influences of evil spirits
- Who have a right to expect His influences.
- Individuals may have the Spirit of God
- It is their duty to be filled with the Spirit
- Why the Spirit is not obtained
- The guilt of those who have not the Spirit of God
- The consequences of having the Spirit.
- The consequences that will follow not having the Spirit.
- The design of prayer meetings
- The manner of conducting them
- Several things that will defeat the design of holding them.
- On what particular points Christians are to testify for God
- The manner in which they are to testify.
- How Christians should deal with careless sinners
- How they should deal with awakened sinners
- How they should deal with convicted sinners.
- A right discharge of the duties of a minister requires great wisdom
- The amount of success in the discharge of his duties (other things being equal) decides the amount of wisdom employed by him.
- Several passages of Scripture ascribe conversion to man
- This is consistent with other passages which ascribe conversion to God
- Several important particulars in regard to preaching the Gospel.
- The importance of the cooperation of the Church in producing and carrying on a revival
- Several things which Churches must do, if they would promote a revival and aid their ministers.
- God has established no particular system of measures to be employed
- Our present forms of public worship have been arrived at by a succession of new measures.
- A revival of religion is a great work
- Several things which may put a stop to it
- What must be done for the continuance of a revival.
- We are to be agreed in prayer
- We are likewise to be agreed in everything that is essential to the blessing we seek.
- The necessity and design of instructing anxious sinners
- Anxious sinners are always seeking comfort
- The false comforts that are often administered
- Errors made in praying for sinners.
- What are NOT proper directions given to sinners when they make inquiry for salvation
- What is a proper answer to such inquiry
- Several errors into which anxious sinners are apt to fall.
- Several things to be considered in regard to the hopes of young converts
- Several things respecting their making a profession of religion
- The importance of having correct instruction given to young converts
- What should not be taught
- What things are necessary to be taught.
- Other points on which young converts ought to be instructed
- How young converts should be treated by the Church
- Some of the evils resulting from defective instruction in the first stages of Christian experience.
- What backsliding in heart is not
- What it is
- What are its evidences
- What are its consequences
- How to recover from such a state.
- What grace is
- What the injunction to "grow in grace" does not mean
- What it does mean
- Conditions of growth in grace
- What is not proof of growth
- What is proof
- How to grow in grace.