Sunderland And Durham County Herald
Friday August 7 1846

The Rev. James Caughey, of the Wesleyan Episcopal Church is on a ministerial visit to this town and delivered sermons in Sans-street Chapel on Sunday morning and evening, and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. His animated and impressive discourses have been listened to with deep attention by overflowing congregations.


Sunderland And Durham County Herald
Friday September 4 1846

The Rev. James Caughey, minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America, has been on a visit to this town during the last five weeks. Services have been held in the different Wesleyan chapels in the borough every evening, except Saturday, and three times on the Sundays, and on each occasion crowded to overflowing by deeply attentive congregations. Mr Caughey’s preaching is characterised by great simplicity, earnestness, and power; and whatever opinion those who have heard him may form on other points; it must be admitted that his language is impressive, his information extensive, and the results marvellous. An extraordinary sensation is occasioned wherever he labours, and in this town not less than five or six hundred persons have joined Christian churches, principally the Wesleyan connexion. Mr. Caughey is to leave on Saturday, and a requisition (already signed by about 800 members of the Society) is to be presented to the Superintendent of the circuit, requesting him to invite Mr. Caughey to return.


Sunderland And Durham County Herald
Friday September 11 1846

Sunderland And Durham County Herald
Friday September 11 1846

On Friday evening. September 4, the Rev. James Caughey, who has spent five weeks in Sunderland engaged daily in religious services, concluded, for the present, his labours in this borough by a sermon in Sans Street Chapel. The spacious building was densely crowded in every part upwards of half an hour before the time appointed; we compute that there would not be less than three thousand individuals in the chapel, and several hundreds who were unable to obtain admission. The vast concourse listened with the deepest attention to the preacher, who delivered a sermon on Job xxxvi. 16 — He is now at Gateshead. [Our readers will observe from an advertisement in another column that Mr. Caughey’s farewell sermon has been printed.]