THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH, AND Continental Letters and Sketches, FROM THE JOURNAL, LETTERS, AND SERMONS OF THE REV. JAMES CAUGHEY, AS ILLUSTRATED IN TWO GREAT REVIVALS IN NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN, ENGLAND; CONTAINING COPIOUS EXTRACTS FROM MR. CAUGHEY'S JOURNAL AND LETTERS-SEVERAL TO PATHS OF USEFULNESS-OBSERVATIONS ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE, &c. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY REV. JOS. CASTLE, A. M. PHILADELPHIA: HIGGINS & PERKINPINE. NEW YORK: CARLTON & PORTER.-CINCINNATI, OHIO: SWORMSTEDT 146. d. 67. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by HIGGINS & PERKINPINE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. OTHE BOD બાદ MEARS & DUSENBERY, STEREOTYPERS AND ELECTROTYPERS. SMITH & PETERS, PRINTERS. INTRODUCTION. God's workmen die, but his work lives, and will live, until all his great purposes of mercy respecting our race are fully accomplished. Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south, but God is the judge: he putteth down one and setteth up another. Infinitely wise and infinitely good, he chooses his workmen according to the demands of the work to be accomplished. He has ever done so, and we suppose that he ever will; and it is vain to look for sameness in one department of his work while we find boundless variety in every other. The little spirits of earth may find fault with this, and talk as though they were wiser than their Maker; but their wisdom is their folly, and their glory is their shame. It will be found worse than useless to attempt making the bed of the famous robber of Attica anything more than a poetical fiction. God's workmen are not to be lengthened, or shortened, or chiselled after any favourite model; but must be left as God makes them, and work as God directs them. The great leading spirits, who have done so much to reform, refine, and exalt our race, were not made after the model of any school on earth; but the work was done, and well done, maugre the objections of the schools or the learned doctors who directed them. The Church has been blest with great and holy men, differing greatly in gifts, and perhaps in graces; but they have fulfilled their mission on earth and have gone to their reward in Heaven. John was not like Peter, and Peter was not like Paul; and it is not probable that Paul taught as Gamaliel instructed him. He had a better teacher. It is now, as it was in former times, and probably will be until the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. It would have taken many Francis Asburys or William McKendrees, to have made one of the master minds who have reigned in philosophy and letters, or in many departments of the Church; but it would have taken quite as many of them to have made one Asbury or McKendree; and who shall say one was not as much the workmanship of God as the other? They have all had their work to |