Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
Mother Wheaton.
Prison Evangelist
An account of nearly Twenty-two Years of Gospel Work, seeking the lost, in Prisons, Reformatories, Stockades, Rescue Homes, Saloons and Dives, and on the Streets, Railway Trains, etc.
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. Psa. 126:6.
For I was an hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was IN PRISON, and ye came unto me. —Matthew 25: 35, 36.
CHAS. M. KELLEY Tabor, Iowa.
COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY CHAS. M. KELLEY.
DEDICATION. To the Railroad Officials who have so generously and cheerfully provided me transportation; their EMPLOYEES, whose kindness has so many times lightened the weariness of my journeys; the State and Prison officials, who have heartily welcomed me and set before me open doors; the THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS AND OTHERS who have shown by word and deed their appreciation of my efforts to help them to a better life; to the many who have in any way ministered to my necessities or offered an encouraging word by the way, and to my SPIRITUAL CHILDREN, these pages are cheerfully inscribed by The Author.
THE HARVEST TIME.
The seed I have scattered in springtime with weeping, And watered with tears and with dews from on high, Another may shout while the harvester's reaping, Shall gather my grain in the sweet by and by.
Chorus—
Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
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ELIZABETH R. WHEATON
PREFACE.
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
Biography and Call to the Work.
A Letter to My Prison Children.
A Plea for the Prisoner.
A Brief Pen Picture of Prison Life.
Letters of Introduction and Kind Words from Governors, Prison Officials, Etc.
Some of My Prison Boys.
Letters from Co-workers, and Some of My Prison Girls.
Incidents in My Prison Work.
Conversion of Desperate Prisoners Prevents a Terrible Mutiny.
Remarkable Conversion and Experience of George H. Colgrove.
Work in Stockades and Prison Camps in Southern States.
Work in Stockades and Prison Camps—Continued.
Work in Fort Madison, Iowa, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Gone Home from the Scaffold.
Work in Churches and Missions.
LETTERS FROM OTHER FRIENDS.
Preaching the Gospel on Railway Trains.
Street and Open Air Work.
Rescue Work.
Work in Canada and Mexico.
Across the Sea.
Travel and Toil.
Letters from Prisoners.
Kind Words from Friends.
Sketches from Press Reports.
Furnished unto Every Good Work.
Selections from My Scrap Book.
WOMAN'S LOVE.
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.
