The Life of John Wesley Redfield
J.G. Terrill's exploration of angels and baptism in Christian doctrine and practice.
64 Chapters
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER 1: John Wesley Redfield was born in Clarendon, New Hampshire, January 23,
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CHAPTER 2: Dr. Wilber Fisk, who was a familiar guest at the home of the Redfields
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CHAPTER 3: Returning home, young Redfield now resolved to live religion, but to
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CHAPTER 4: Taking only a small bundle with him, and without saying farewell, he
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CHAPTER 5: After a short time, the sign appeared again, directing him to another
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CHAPTER 6: In the peculiar state of mind described in the foregoing chapter, young
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CHAPTER 7: The bitter and sorrowful experience occasioned by his rash marriage
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CHAPTER 8: No way is so long but that it has an end, and no night is so dark but
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CHAPTER 9: Mr. Redfield soon returned to his bachelor's hall again. It must have
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CHAPTER 10: In Cleveland, Mr. Redfield engaged in his chosen profession -- portrait
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CHAPTER 11: Mr. Redfield had now passed one winter in active service for God and
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CHAPTER 12: Mr. Redfield was now conscious that disease had fastened its grasp upon
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CHAPTER 13: The great awakening with which the last chapter concluded continued
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CHAPTER 14: Mr. Redfield relates his experience in the matter of seeking holiness
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CHAPTER 15: Mr. Redfield's pastor was a good man, but he did not enjoy the
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CHAPTER 16: The annual conference came on, and there was a change of pastors. The
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CHAPTER 17: Mr. Redfield was now invited to join the traveling connection of the
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CHAPTER 18: Mr. Redfield was now invited to a church in one of the suburbs of New
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CHAPTER 19: The success of the meeting described in the last chapter, deepened Mr.
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CHAPTER 20: When the spring came Mr. Redfield went to Long Island to spend the
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CHAPTER 21: Mr. Redfield now received a letter from a preacher whom he had met at
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CHAPTER 22: Mr. Redfield's extreme and incessant labors now began to tell severely
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CHAPTER 23: As Mr. Redfield's health began to improve, he entered the evangelistic
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CHAPTER 24: Mr. Redfield was next called to visit Middletown Conn., the seat of a
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CHAPTER 25: Mr. Redfield, about this time, met with opposition from the preacher in
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CHAPTER 26: Mr. Redfield went now to a place on Long Island where a Methodist
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CHAPTER 27: Mr. Redfield was next sent for to spend the winter in Boston. But
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CHAPTER 28: Mr. Redfield visited Newburgh just before the camp meeting held near
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CHAPTER 29: Immediately after the camp meeting described in the last chapter, Mr.
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CHAPTER 30: From Peekskill Mr. Redfield went, on invitation of the chaplain, to
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CHAPTER 31: About this time the preacher from Bridgeport, Connecticut, came to Mr.
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CHAPTER 32: Towards the close of the meetings at Bridgeport, several Methodists
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CHAPTER 33: While work was moving in great power in New Haven, a deputation from
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CHAPTER 34: After his labors in Stamford, Mr. Redfield visited the camp meeting at
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CHAPTER 35: As winter approached Mr. Redfield was invited to return to Stamford to
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CHAPTER 36: At the close of the camp meeting mentioned in the last chapter, Mr.
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CHAPTER 37: When Mr. Redfield began his work at Salina, as usual he tried the best
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CHAPTER 38: Mr. Redfield now went back to the city of Syracuse to see if he could
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CHAPTER 39: Mr. Redfield now received a letter from the Congregational society of
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CHAPTER 40: Mr. Redfield was now invited to Albion, N. Y., by Rev. W. C. Kendall,
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CHAPTER 41: At the close of his labors in Albion, Mr. Redfield went directly to
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CHAPTER 42: In November, 1852, Mr. Redfield was invited to Henrietta, Monroe
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CHAPTER 43: From the scene of the labors described in the last chapter, Mr.
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CHAPTER 44: After closing his labors in Bath Mr. Redfield went to the city of
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CHAPTER 45: In February, 1855, Mr. Redfield was invited to visit Burlington,
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CHAPTER 46: While Mr. Redfield was engaged in the work of a physician at this time,
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CHAPTER 47: From Lima Mr. Redfield went to Rochester, N. Y. For several years he
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CHAPTER 48: When Mr. Redfield received the letter from Mr. Sherman requesting him
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CHAPTER 49: While at St. Charles, Mr. Redfield wrote the following interesting
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CHAPTER 50: On July 4, 1857, Mr. Redfield wrote the following letter, which
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CHAPTER 51: In December, 1857, we find Mr. Redfield in St. Charles, Illinois,
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CHAPTER 52: From Marengo, Mr. Redfield went to Woodstock, the county seat, twelve
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CHAPTER 53: Soon after the St. Charles camp meeting, Mr. Redfield made a visit to
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CHAPTER 54: Just before the time came to start for St. Louis, a few of Mr.
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CHAPTER 55: The next morning Mr. Redfield called on Dr. William, and secured a copy
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CHAPTER 56: A committee now waited on Mr. Redfield, and asked him to become the
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CHAPTER 57: Information now came to Mr. Redfield that Mr. Roberts, who had been
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CHAPTER 58: Subsequent events proved the wisdom of Mr. Redfield's refusal to submit
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CHAPTER 59: During the following August, the writer, then a local preacher, was
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CHAPTER 60: On returning to St. Charles, Mr. Redfield found that the preacher in
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CHAPTER 61: In a short time Mr. Redfield returned to St. Louis. The evening before
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CHAPTER 62: A Laymen's Convention was called to meet in Olean, February 1 and 2,
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CHAPTER 63: The venerable Elias Bowen, D.D., in his history of the Origin of the
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CHAPTER 64: After the Pekin Convention, Mr. Redfield returned to the West, and