CHAPTER
I
  Mabel - Her Father and Mother - Arthur Manly - Dr. Stanly - Series of meetings -
Mabel and Arthur Baptized - Mabel's proposed visit to Thornton

   II
    Journey to Thornton - Mabel's Aunt Norinda Fields, sister to Mabel's mother,
and her two children, Ethel (married) and Herbert (just decided to preach) -
Jacob Fields dead 14 years - Sermon on Grace - Sermon on Holy Spirit - Mabel uneasy -
Herbert licensed to preach - Aunt Juda - Christian Experience - Sense of forgiveness -
Herbert preaches - Mabel converted - Churches of Christ

   III
    A dying happy Christian - Doing hard things for Christ's sake - Great mental
struggle -Mabel joins the Baptists - Resolves to vindicate her course - Arthur grieved

   IV
    G ossip - Arthur perplexed and jealous -Decides to visit Thornton - Consults his
mother and is comforted

   V
    Mabel returns home - Cool reception - Sharp rebuke - Dr. Stanly coming to reclaim her

   VI
    Campbellite church not the church of Christ - Too young - Baptist churches
have existed thro all ages since Christ

   VII
    Design of Baptism - Campbellite theory - "Born of water" -  Campbellites teach
none are saved without immersion - Scriptural subject for baptism - Order of Repentance
and Faith - Mr. Morgan and George

   VIII
    Condition or state of the Penitent Believer -Forgiven - Saved

   IX
    Believer has eternal life - Not condemned - Baptism not a part of faith - Justified

   X
    Believer has the love of God in his heart - Is a child of God - Has a pure heart -
Summing up - Sterling spectator comments on the discussion, lauding Mabel - Critics
and admirers - Jeems and George

   XI
    Design of Baptism - "Born of water" - and "washing of regeneration" -
Campbellism shuts door of heaven against the unimmersed - Mr. Wilds converted -
A r t h u r in courtroom - Jeems and George

   XII
    Acts 2:38

   XIII
    Acts 22:16 - I Peter 3:21 - Mark 16:16

   XIV
    Arthur happy for two best reasons the world affords - He and his mother rejoice
together - They plan for the future

   XV
    Saved in all ages of the world in the same way, i.e., by faith in Christ - Function of
Jewish sacrifices - Teaching of the prophets - Of John the Baptist - Of the writers of the
four gospels - The book of Acts - The Epistles - Examples showing how persons were
saved in all ages - Mr. Tibbs encourages Mabel - Mr. Tibbs in love - Jeems and George

   XVI
    Campbellite Baptism unscriptural - Its faith objectionable - Its subject and design
unscriptural - I t s administrator faulty

   XVII
    The Communion question discussed in its various phases

   XVIII
    Prayer - The Christian's duty to pray for the sinner

   XIX
    Depravity - Total means all - The whole nature depraved and alienated from God

   XX
    Falling from Grace - Final Perseverance

   XXI
    Baptist meeting in Sterling - Many converts - Sixty baptized - Colloquy at baptism - Baptist church organized - A happy home