Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
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Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton. Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER I. Biography and Call to the Work
MARRIAGE
SANCTIFICATION
MY CALL TO PRISON WORK
PREACH THE GOSPEL TO PRISONERS
FAMILY REUNION AFTER A SEPARATION OF. FIFTY-TWO YEARS
CHAPTER II. A Letter to My Prison Children
CHAPTER III. A Plea for the Prisoner
A LETTER TO PRISON OFFICERS
PREJUDICE
A LOOK INTO THE CELL
INSANE PRISONERS
A TOUCHING INCIDENT
PREPARED TO DIE
CHAPTER IV. A Brief Pen Picture of Prison Life
THE CHAPEL SERVICE
THE WORKSHOPS
THE HOSPITAL,
CHAPTER V. Letters of Introduction and Kind Words from Governors, Prison Officials, Etc
FROM GOVERNORS
PRISON OFFICIALS
PERSONAL LETTERS
EXTRACT
CHAPTER VI. Some of My Prison Boys
A TALENTED YOUNG MAN
UNDER DEATH SENTENCE
SENTENCED FOR LIFE
FAITHFUL INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF PRISON WALLS
CHAPTER VII. Letters from Co-workers, and Some of My Prison Girls
CHAPTER VIII. Incidents in My Prison Work
SUICIDE OF A PRISONER
"I HAVE NO FRIENDS."
WAY OPENED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
A WOMAN CONVERTED AND HEALED
A CHANGE WROUGHT
A CHAPLAIN IN MY AUDIENCE
IMPRESSED TO TARRY
ENCOURAGEMENT BY THE WAY
A CASE OF CRUEL NEGLECT
ANOTHER SUICIDE
JUST OUT OF PRISON
DYING IN PRISON
WILL IT PAY?
SAVED AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL
IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
CRAPE ON THE DOOR
IN A POLICE STATION
BURNED IN HIS CELL
THE INNOCENT IN BONDS
CONFESSED HER GUILT
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH
THE RELIGION MOTHER HAD
CHAPTER IX. Conversion of Desperate Prisoners Prevents a Terrible Mutiny
PLAN OF THE MUTINY
HAVOC OF SIN
CHAPTER X. Remarkable Conversion and Experience of George H. Colgrove
HIS OWN STORY
CHAPTER XI. Work in Stockades and Prison Camps in Southern States
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF ALABAMA
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
STATE OF ALABAMA
STATE OF GEORGIA
STATE OF FLORIDA
STATE OF GEORGIA
A STOCKADE
PLEA FOR WOMEN CONVICTS
BLOOD HOUNDS
COAL MINES
A TOUCHING INCIDENT
MY FIRST MEETING IN A PRISON CAMP
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME
MY FIRST FREE PASS
CHAPTER XII. Work in Stockades and Prison Camps—Continued
ASSISTING A COLORED MINISTER
THROUGH DANGER ALONE
A MEETING AT DAY DAWN
HELPING TO BURY A PRISONER
WRECK OF A COAL TRAIN
THE SUGAR CAMPS
IN A GAMBLING SALOON
CONDITION OF CONVICTS
UNJUSTLY CONDEMNED
NEED OF REFORM
CHAPTER XIII. Work in Fort Madison, Iowa, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
WORK IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
SENTENCED TO FORTY YEARS IN PRISON
TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO
CHAPTER XIV. Gone Home from the Scaffold
INDIFFERENT BUT FINALLY CONVERTED
MOTHER'S PRAYERS
CLAIMED TO BE INNOCENT
HARDENED IN CRIME
CONVERSION OF A JEWISH BOY
MYSTERIOUSLY GUIDED
IN LONG EXPECTATION
SENTENCE COMMUTED
A MAN DECEIVED
VISITORS EXCLUDED
INTERCEDED FOR THE LIFE OF A BOY
WENT TO THE SCAFFOLD SINGING
BOTH TWICE CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF MURDER
THREE YOUNG MEN
FRIEND OF ALL PRISONERS
SESSION OF THE BOARD
HEARD THE BAD NEWS
PLEA OF ATTORNEY
NEWS THAT SON IS TO HANG BROKEN TO AGED WOMAN BY HER DAUGHTER AND CAUSES COLLAPSE
SUPPRESSED EMOTION
TO TEST GALLOWS
CHAPTER XV. Work in Churches and Missions
STRANGELY LED
LETTERS FROM OTHER FRIENDS
PRISON EVANGELIST
SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS
CALLED TO THE MINISTRY
A COLORED WOMAN SAVED AND PREACHING
STRIKING EXPERIENCES
SAVED BY A HYMN
CHAPTER XVI. Preaching the Gospel on Railway Trains
KILLED BY CARS
TO RAILROAD MEN
TRANSPORTATION
A KIND CONDUCTOR
MOST INTERESTING GOSPEL SERVICES
TRAIN SAVED FROM WRECK IN ANSWER TO PRAYER
A TRAIN IN DANGER
IMPRESSED TO LEAVE THE TRAIN
A TELEGRAM RECEIVED
HELPED TO CARE FOR WOUNDED MAN
CONDUCTOR'S GOD BLESS YOU
A WOMAN'S FAITH ENCOURAGED
RIDING IN PARLOR CAR
FAVOR THE R. R. CO
CHAPTER XVII. Street and Open Air Work
PERMIT TO PREACH ON BOSTON COMMON
FROM MISS JOSEPHINE COWGILL
MY FIRST STREET MEETING
CONVERTED TO CHRIST
A WONDERFUL CONVERSION
THE PRISON EVANGELIST
BECAME A PREACHER
THE BLIND ENCOURAGED
FORBIDDEN TO PREACH ON THE STREET
THOUGHT THEY SAW A GHOST
HURT BY A SALOONKEEPER
WARNED TO LEAVE THE CITY
IN JAIL
VERBATIM COPY OF A RECOGNIZANCE
CHAPTER XVIII. Rescue Work
DRUNKEN WOMEN AND MEN
ASSAULTED IN A DIVE
A GIRL SAVED
A GIRL REJECTED AT RESCUE HOME
ROBBED BY HER OWN BROTHER
NEGLECTED BY THE CHURCHES
VISIT TO A HOSPITAL
ANOTHER VISIT TO A HOSPITAL
A BAT CAVE
WORDS OF CHEER FROM OTHER RESCUE WORKERS
CHAPTER XIX. Work in Canada and Mexico
MY SECOND EXPERIENCE IN STREET PREACHING
SERVICE WITH Y. M. C. A
A GIRL RESCUED
SHUT OUT—OTHERS ADMITTED
STONED
AN INFIDEL DEFEATED
WORK IN MEXICO
A BULL FIGHT
SIX UNDER DEATH SENTENCE
DIFFICULTIES
MINISTERED TO A SUFFERER
CHAPTER XX. Across the Sea
ON THE OCEAN
IN A FOREIGN LAND
MY LIFE IN DANGER
A SONG STOPS A ROW
TUMULT IN A DIVE
A MOB OF DRUNKEN WOMEN
IN PAISLEY
RETURN TO AMERICA
SECOND VISIT TO EUROPE
CHAPTER XXI. Travel and Toil
TWO NIGHTS'S SERVICE
ONE WEEK'S WORK
A PROFITABLE TRIP
SIX WEEKS' SERVICE
RECENT WORK
RETURN FROM PACIFIC COAST
ANOTHER TRIP
CHAPTER XXII. Letters from Prisoners
CHAPTER XXIII. Kind Words from Friends
FROM H. L. HASTINGS AND WIFE
E. E. BYRUM, AUTHOR AND EDITOR
FROM MOTHER OF PRISONER
FROM A PRISONER'S DAUGHTER
FROM AN EDITOR
FROM AN EX-PRISONER
A TESTIMONIAL
CHAPTER XXIV. Sketches from Press Reports
FROM A PRISONER IN THE PRATT MINES STOCKADE, ALABAMA
Saw Mother Wheaton
The Prison Evangelist
Mrs. Elizabeth Rider Wheaton Preaches to Unfortunates
A Disgraceful Proceeding
Disgraceful
The Prison Evangelist
A Noble Work
Gospel for the Prisoners
Prison Evangelists
The News at Leavenworth
Jail Service
Preached To Convicts
Police Station Services
Services at the Workhouse
A Strange Life of Devotion in Neglected Fields
Preaching on the Streets
Prayer Service in Jail
Street Services
For Prisoners
Elizabeth R. Wheaton
Visit from Missionaries
A Remarkable Scene
At the Colored Church
Prison Worker Visits Tacoma
MANY YEARS IN PRISON WORK
MANY EXPERIENCES
ONCE TAKEN FOR CARRIE NATION
OPPOSES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD
IS NOT A STRANGER
Prisoners on Bended Knee
CHAPTER XXV. Furnished unto Every Good Work
MY BOY IN INDIA
PREACHING IN THE PEST-HOUSE
HOW THE LORD PROVIDES
MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS
CHAPTER XXVI. Selections from My Scrap Book
THE AUTHOR OF FLOWER MISSION DAY
FLOWER DAY AT THE PRISON
LINES BY A PRISONER TO HIS WIFE
WOMAN'S LOVE
TAKE THIS MESSAGE TO MY MOTHER
NOT LONELY NOW
JESUS IS LOOKING ON
HOW GOD CALLS MISSIONARIES OUT OF PRISON CELLS
OUTSIDE THE PRISON WALLS
IF WE KNEW
LITTLE GRAVES
THE MOTHER'S WARNING
HARRY'S REMORSE
TWENTY—THIRTY-FOUR
HIS MOTHER'S SONG
PERFECT PEACE
SWEET REVENGE
NO TELEPHONE IN HEAVEN
PERFECT THROUGH FAITH
A TRUE HERO
THE "KID."
CHARGED WITH MURDER
MOTHER'S FACE
ONLY SIXTEEN
THE DRESS QUESTION
Songs used in my work
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
Life's Railway to Heaven
Meet Me There
God Bless My Boy
The Great Judgment Morning
My Name in Mother's Prayer
Over There
This Way
More to be Pitied than Censured
Some Mother's Child
Just Tell My Mother
Soon the Death-bell Will Toll
The End of the Way
Appendix
The Personnel of Prison Management
Meditations of a Prisoner
Christ in Gethsemane
DIRECTORY OF PENITENTIARIES, STATE REFORM SCHOOLS, STATE INDUSTRIAL REFORMATORIES, ETC., OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
UNITED STATES PRISONS
STATE INSTITUTIONS
PRISONS IN CANADA
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Words and music copyright, John J. Hood, Philadelphia.
When I was made to feel that the Lord required me to write of the victories He had wrought and of the work yet waiting to be done I was amazed and am still, though it is more than ten years since God first told me to write for Him. Early left an orphan, my childhood was spent in the country where I had to walk two miles across the fields and through deep snows in order to get to school, and my life-work has been crippled by my lack of education. How then can I write? Yet the command of the Lord has been upon me and the cry of the needy has rung in my ears. Words cannot describe the cruel wrongs, the awful injustice, the scenes of desolation and degradation that have come to my knowledge. Much has been done, much is being done; and yet, O how much still needs to be done, in behalf of those in prison! Wrongs that are indescribable still cry to God for vengeance in this our own land. Cruelties that are beyond the power of language to describe still exist, and the cry of the oppressed comes up to the ear of Him who has declared "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."
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I also give the reader a sketch written by my brother and published in his home paper at Bryan, O., some years since.
These prisoners need a helping hand, need a friend with wisdom, tact and judgment, one in whose heart there is the one thought above all others of the need of their immortal souls, their eternal destiny.
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