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LETTERS

ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS;

BY

THE REV. JAMES CAUGHEY,

OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, UNITED STATES OF

AMERICA.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY SIMPKIN, MARSHALL AND CO.,

STATIONERS' HALL COURT.

1844.

TO MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND; BUT PARTICULARLY THOSE AMONG THEM, WHO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO GOD, DURING THE LATE REVIVALS OF RELIGION.

"GRACE be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always in your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ. May he confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."

Two years and a half have fled away, since my arrival in this country from America. With thankful Samuel, I would here raise my Ebenezer, and say, "hitherto hath the Lord helped me."

During this time, with the exception of a few weeks upon the Continent, my labours have been incessant. On looking over my papers, I find, the Lord has enabled me to preach, on an average, nearly once a day; besides conducting a prayer meeting every night after preaching, and exhorting, times without number.

During the revivals in which I have been engaged in England and Ireland, several thousand souls have