"After more than twenty years of revival ministry, America's greatest evangelist had accumulated knowledge of spiritual awakenings, their implications and excesses, perhaps exceeding that of almost anyone in Christian history. This aggregate wisdom on the subject was first presented to the reading public in the form of a series of 32 open letters, printed on the pages of the Oberlin Evangelist in 1845. Some were recently reproduced in a volume titled Revival Fire. But fifteen of the original letters did not find their way into that book. In your hands you have all thirty-two of the invaluable epistles of the incomparable preacher. - Back cover."

Reflections on revival