Chapter 1 CHILDHOOD

Chapter 2 YOUTH

Chapter 3 THE TURNING-POINT

Chapter 4 LED BY THE SPIRIT

Chapter 5 AT BROOK FARM

Chapter 6 INNER LIFE WHILE AT BROOK FARM

Chapter 7 On its second page occurs the following account of his impressions while in church on Easter Sunday

Chapter 8 STRUGGLES

Chapter 9 FRUITLANDS

Chapter 10 SELF-QUESTIONINGS

Chapter 11 AT HOME AGAIN

Chapter 12 STUDYING AND WAITING

Chapter 13 THE MYSTIC AND THE PHILOSOPHER

Chapter 14 HIS SEARCH AMONG THE SECTS

Chapter 15 HIS LIFE AT CONCORD

Chapter 16 AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH

Chapter 17 AT THE DOOR OF THE CHURCH-CONTINUED

Chapter 18 ACROSS THE THRESHOLD

Chapter 19 NEW INFLUENCES

Chapter 20 YEARNINGS AFTER CONTEMPLATION

Chapter 21 FROM NEW YORK TO ST. TROND

Chapter 22 BROTHER HECKER

Chapter 23 HOW BROTHER HECKER MADE HIS STUDIES AND WAS ORDAINED PRIEST

Chapter 24 A REDEMPTORIST MISSIONARY

Chapter 25 SEPARATION FROM THE REDEMPTORISTS

Chapter 26 BEGINNINGS OF THE PAULIST COMMUNITY

Chapter 27 FATHER HECKER'S IDEA OF A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY

Chapter 28 FATHER HECKER'S SPIRITUAL DOCTRINE

Chapter 30 THE PAULIST PARISH AND MISSIONS

Chapter 31 FATHER HECKER'S LECTURES

Chapter 32 THE APOSTOLATE OF THE PRESS

Chapter 33 THE VATICAN COUNCIL

Chapter 34 THE LONG ILLNESS

Chapter 35 On this occasion he suffered much pain, for which, he says, the joy of the final agreement amply repaid him.

Chapter 36 THE EXPOSITION OF THE CHURCH

Chapter 37 IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH

Chapter 38 CONCLUSION