This book is the personal journal of Joseph Hewitt, a profligate and degenerate young Englishman, who was powerfully converted by the power of the Holy Spirit, an experience he describes as a fire in my bones. He joined the Primitive Methodist Church, where he was commissioned a lay preacher and sent to America to preach the gospel to the Cornish miners on the American frontier.
Brother Hewitts journal is a day-by-day record of a circuit-riding preacher in the nineteenth century, the era of slavery, the Civil War, and Lincoln. He traveled on foot, on horseback, and by buggy through Wisconsin blizzards and floods, often preaching several times a week. Read his journal; it may kindle a fire in your bones.
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Donald A. Weir was born on a Minnesota farm in 1928. While growing up in the depths of the Great Depression, he attended public schools, and later earned a BA in English and an MDiv in theology from the University of Dubuque. Commissioned as a chaplain in the US Navy, he served for twenty-two years, which took him to four continents and seven seas. He is retired and living in Maitland, Florida. His memoir, Heretic Son was published in 2013.