Stone's autobiography, completed and supplemented by his protégé Elder John Rogers after Stone's death in 1844. Bound together with the Apology of the Springfield Presbytery (1804) and Rogers' six-chapter portrait of Stone's character, this is the principal first-person source for Stone's life, the Cane Ridge revival, the founding of the Christian movement, and the 1832 Stone–Campbell union.
Editorial Note
First published in Cincinnati by J. A. & U. P. James in 1847, three years after Stone's death. Chapters I–X are Stone's first-person narrative, written in his final years; chapters XI–XIII were completed by Elder John Rogers from Stone's letters, journals, and the testimony of those who knew him. Bound to the same volume are the 1804 *Apology of the Springfield Presbytery* (in three parts) and Rogers's six-chapter reflection on Stone's character.
The reading edition on this site is set from a cleaned transcription of the Internet Archive DjVu OCR. Page anchors (#page-12, #page-147, &c.) track the original 1847 pagination so citations remain stable, but OCR-level fidelity should be confirmed against the page images for anything quoted in print.