Twice-born Men in America / or, The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work
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HARRIET EARHART MONROE
Also Author of “Conversation as a Science and an Art,” “Heroine of the Mining Camp,” “Historical Lutheranism,” “The Life of Gustavus Adolphus,” and “Washington—Its Sights and Insights”
PHILADELPHIA, PA.:
THE LUTHERAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY
Copyright, 1914, by
HARRIET EARHART MONROE
I taught psychology for fifteen years at the Atchison Institute, the predecessor of Midland College, located at Atchison, Kan. I was there greatly impressed by the fact that the books gave no adequate analysis of the psychology of the greatest mental and moral change which can come to the human mind, namely, conversion and regeneration; yet these changes make the great difference which we see between men and nations.
A Rescue Mission gives a great opportunity to study mental and moral changes, and my observations and conclusions, made from years of study, are herein embodied.
This book is sent forth with the earnest hope and prayer that it will lead many souls to Christ; also that it will show earnest laymen just how to bring about that psychological change which we call conversion. A Sunday school teacher who brings only ninety per cent of her students through the process of conversion and regeneration is ninety per cent a success and ten per cent failure. The same is true of a pastor with a class of catechumens.
“Ye must be born again,” is just as true to-day as it ever was, and if we believed it as Paul believed it, what live wires we would be.
Harriet Earhart Monroe
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PREFACE
CONTENTS
TREASURER, MR. H. D. GORDON
PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. WHEELER
MRS. M. P. SPINDLE
THE FUMIGATOR
ENLARGEMENT
THE NEED OF RESCUE WORK
“OUR GOSPEL MISSION TIDINGS”
THE INDUSTRIAL PLANT
HOW GOD CALLED ME
THE GOSPEL MISSION
CONVERSIONS AND REGENERATION
I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH
AUNT MARY
MR. E. C. CONNAUGHT
PSYCHOLOGY
JAMES MANN.
(A CHAPTER ON FAITH)
A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK
HOW THE LORD PAID THE DEBT
NEXT STEP OF FAITH
MR. WHEELER'S STORY
A REMARKABLE TESTIMONY
CENTRAL BUREAU OF LABOR
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED
AN INCIDENT OF THE WINTER OF 1910
THE HOLIDAYS
THANKSGIVING DAY AT THE MISSION OF 1910
CHRISTMAS AT THE GOSPEL MISSION
NEW YEAR'S EVE
THE FORGER FROM NEW HAVEN
PENNY LUNCH
WHAT DR. HALLIMOND, OF THE NEW YORK BOWERY MISSION, SAYS ABOUT THE BREAD LINE
THE DISPENSARY
GOSPEL MISSION DISPENSARY
THE CASE OF MR. ABBOTT
THE PSYCHOLOGY
RELIGION WITH THE DEFECTIVE DELINQUENT
HEREDITY
MR. KLINE'S TESTIMONY
EMOTION IN RELIGION
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES