Prisons and Prayer

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Author

Wheaton, Elizabeth Ryder, 1844-

Title

Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love

Credits

Produced by Jana Srna, Bryan Ness, Julia Neufeld and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Evangelistic work

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41720

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41720

Release Date

December 28, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PRISONS AND PRAYER OR A LABOR OF LOVE — BY
2. 2.ELIZABETH R. WHEATON
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.INTRODUCTION.
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.Prisons and Prayer OR A LABOR OF LOVE.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — A Letter to My Prison Children.
9. 9.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.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — A Brief Pen Picture of Prison Life. — THE CHAPEL SERVICE. — THE WORKSHOPS. — THE HOSPITAL,
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — Letters of Introduction and Kind Words from Governors, Prison Officials, Etc. — FROM GOVERNORS. — PRISON OFFICIALS. — PERSONAL LETTERS. — EXTRACT.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — Some of My Prison Boys. — A TALENTED YOUNG MAN. — UNDER DEATH SENTENCE. — SENTENCED FOR LIFE. — FAITHFUL INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF PRISON WALLS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — Letters from Co-workers, and Some of My Prison Girls.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — Incidents in My Prison Work. — LETTER FROM THE PRISONERS AT CHESTER, ILL. — 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.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — Conversion of Desperate Prisoners Prevents a Terrible Mutiny. — PLAN OF THE MUTINY. — HAVOC OF SIN.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — Remarkable Conversion and Experience of George H. Colgrove. — HIS OWN STORY.
17. 17.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.
18. 18.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.
19. 19.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.
20. 20.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.
21. 21.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.
22. 22.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.
23. 23.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.
24. 24.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.
25. 25.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.
26. 26.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.
27. 27.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.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — Letters from Prisoners.
29. 29.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.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — Sketches from Press Reports. — A Labor of Love. — A Prison Evangelist. — Prison Evangelist. — Evangelistic Service at Prison. — Mrs. Wheaton's Eloquence. — 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.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — Furnished unto Every Good Work. — MY BOY IN INDIA. — PREACHING IN THE PEST-HOUSE. — HOW THE LORD PROVIDES. — MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS.
32. 32.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.
33. 33.Appendix. — The Personnel of Prison Management. — THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. — THE WARDEN. — HE MUST BE AN ORGANIZER. — HE MUST BE A FINANCIER. — DISCIPLINE. — THE PRISON SCHOOL. — COURAGE NEEDED. — OPTIMISM NECESSARY. — THE CHAPLAIN. — THE PHYSICIAN. — SUBORDINATE OFFICERS. — THE DEMANDS OF THE AGE. — 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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