Some Chapters of My Life Story

Author's foreword:
It has frequently occurred to me to put down in book form some of the interesting incidents in my long life, as an orphan boy, with something of my conversion, entering the ministry, and the various fields in which I have labored these sixty-three years, preaching throughout this nation and in many countries around the world.

Numbers of my friends have asked me to write my Life Story, and I have found it fascinating; one of the most interesting features is the very remarkable part of my Life Story that I could not tell without reflection on others who have been strongly opposed to the work in which I have engaged, the Bible truths I have loved and delighted to preach.

I have sought to avoid anything that could possibly give pain to any one who might read what I had written. I have been compelled to leave out much that was interesting to me, as it came up in the refreshing of my memory, and would doubtless, have been interesting to others who are interested in me, but the book is already too large; and here it is.

If in its pages the reader can find anything of interest and helpfulness I shall be grateful.

The Table of Contents are as follows:
Chapter 1: MY ANCESTORS
Chapter 2: MY ANCESTORS (Continued)
Chapter 3: MY FIRST MEMORIES
Chapter 4: THE CIVIL WAR
Chapter 5: BOYHOOD IN THE COUNTRY
Chapter 6: A BATTLE WITH SATAN
Chapter 7: MY CONVERSION
Chapter 8: FROM THE PENNYROYAL TO THE BLUE GRASS
Chapter 9: I FOUND A FRIEND
Chapter 10: RIDING A CIRCUIT
Chapter 11: A PAIN IN MY HEART
Chapter 12: MY FIRST STATION
Chapter 13: AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
Chapter 14: A TRAIN OF MEMORIES
Chapter 15: IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KENTUCKY
Chapter 16: A REMARKABLE CONVERSION
Chapter 17: NEWSPAPER REPORTS OF REVIVALS
Chapter 18: ENTERING THE EVANGELISTIC FIELD
Chapter 19: CONDITIONS IN KENTUCKY METHODISM
Chapter 20: TEMPTING OFFERS
Chapter 21: THE ENLARGED EVANGELISTIC FIELD
Chapter 22: A GREAT SORROW CAME INTO MY LIFE
Chapter 23: MY FIRST TRIP TO CALIFORNIA
Chapter 24: THE TENT MEETING WHICH LED TO MY EXPULSION FROM THE CHURCH AND MINISTRY
Chapter 25: MY TRIAL BEFORE A QUARTERLY CONFERENCE
Chapter 26: LOYALTY AND LOVE
Chapter 27: PREACHING AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES
Chapter 28: AN ENLARGED EFFORT IN THE HOLINESS MOVEMENT
Chapter 29: MY EVANGELISTIC TOUR OF THE WORLD
Chapter 30: ON OUR WAY TO INDIA
Chapter 31: TRAVELING IN INDIA
Chapter 32: WORLD TOUR OF EVANGELISM
Chapter 33: THE CALL TO THE PRESIDENCY OF ASBURY COLLEGE
Chapter 34: FORWARD MOVEMENT AT ASBURY
Chapter 35: MY LOYAL ASSISTANTS
Chapter 36: MY RETURN TO THE PRESIDENCY OF ASBURY COLLEGE
Chapter 37: CLOSING REFLECTIONS

About the author:
Morrison was in Barren County, Kentucky. His parents died when he was very young, and he was reared by his paternal grandfather. Morrison was converted at the age of 11 in a Methodist revival at the Boyd's Creek Meetinghouse near Glasgow, Kentucky. Soon after he felt a call to the ministry. He was licensed to preach at the age of 19 and began his work as circuit rider and station pastor.

In 1890 Morrison left the pastorate and moved into evangelism. He also began editing a religious publication called The Old Methodist, which later became the widely-read Pentecostal Herald. Morrison's reputation as a Methodist evangelist grew rapidly from his home state of Kentucky to most other states and many foreign countries. The camp meeting became one of his favorite evangelistic venues, and throughout the rest of his life Morrison gave much time and effective leadership to this religious movement. William Jennings Bryan regarded Morrison to be "the greatest pulpit orator on the American continent."