Abridged edition.

1. Wesley as a missionary to Georgia -- 2. Troubles in Georgia; return to England; Peter Böhler; "I felt my heart strangely warmed" -- 3. Field-preaching; "all the world my parish"; Whitefield; Wales; Experience with demons -- 4. Preaching incidents; Wesley's labor colony; dispute with Whitefield; curious interpretations; the mother of the Wesleys -- 5. Wesley refused sacrament at Epworth; Cornwall and the Scilly Isles; natural amphitheater and Gwennap; Wesley in danger -- 6. First Methodist conference; press gangs and mobs; Wesley's protest against ungodliness -- 7. Severe weather; Ireland; Wesley's protest against lawlessness -- 8. Wesley and the soldiers; in Ireland and Wales again; Wesley's protest against ungodliness -- 9. Wesley's marriage; dealings with Cornwall smugglers; his illness and recovery -- 10. Retirement in Paddington; Wesley slandered; premonitions; a dream -- 11. "I do indeed live by preaching"; Wesley's advice to travelers; trances; Wesley and the French prisoners -- 12. Wesley's letter to an editor; impositions and declaration; the speaking statue; Wesley's Pentecost -- 13. Wesley in Scotland again; Methodist wealth; "no law for Methodists"; exhausting days; Whitefield -- 14. Justice for Methodists; Methodist character; instructions to parents; Wesley's opinion of Mary queen of Scots -- 15. Wesley opens a new church; comments on Rousseau; geology, Swedenborg, and riding horseback; Grennap and 20,000 people; death of Whitefield -- 16. Windsor park; Wesley as art critic; Glasgow and Perth; at seventy, Wesley preaches to 30,000 people -- 17. Wesley arrested; a terrible ride; a Methodist Isaac Newton; Wesley and the American war -- 18. On the Isle of Man; city road chapel; Wesley visits Lord George Gordon -- 19. An ideal circuit; Wesley in his eighties; Wesley visits Holland; incidents in Scotland -- 20. Wesley collects money for the poor; visits the House of Lords; his reasons for his long life; "how is the tide turned!"; last entries.