Dear Friend: We received your letter and books. We were so glad to get them. We were playing cards when the sheriff handed them to us. We laid the cards away and went to reading, and the more we read the more interested we became. I have prayed to God to forgive me of my sins and I believe he does, and I want you to pray for me. There are three other men in here that have turned to God, and it all came about through the letters and books. We thank you for the Testament. Pray for us and please send us more of those books and papers. They help us so much. FROM A PRISON WORKER. The prison work is growing and precious souls are being saved. It is wonderful how readily these men accept the full teaching of the Bible, taking Christ as their Savior and Healer. When I read their letters so cheerful and so happy in Jesus, it makes me to rejoice. The work is spreading from state to state and calls are coming in for pure literature. The state prisons have libraries in them, but they are filled with novels (so the prisoners tell me), and they desire something better. When these books and papers are put in their hands they forsake the cards and novels and read something that will do them good. We thank God for those who have helped us so much in this work, but our need this morning is greater than ever because the work is greater, and we are praying God to touch the hearts of his people to supply the free-literature fund with ample means to send us another shipment of books and tracts. A prisoner in Jefferson City and one in Menard, Ill. have permission to distribute books and tracts they receive and they are faithfully discharging their duty. May God help us to keep them supplied, and not them only but other prisons as well. We do not feel like it is God’s will for us to quit the field now and turn it over to the enemy when souls are being saved. Let each one do his duty and the work can be carried on without any one feeling the burden. Your co-laborer in the work, L. P——. _RELEASED FROM PRISON._ A sentence to a term of years in prison in many states is commuted to “short time,” so many days being deducted from each month for good behavior. An attempt to escape or continuance in disobedience will require a full-term service. In some states there is a parole law where for good behavior prisoners may be paroled or given liberty to go anywhere in the state by reporting once or twice a month, stating their whereabouts, and at the end of a given period, if they do not abuse their privileges by leaving the state, they will be given a final discharge. The state of West Virginia has recently passed a bill to create and establish a free public employment bureau, which came into effect May 15, 1901, as follows: “Be it known by the legislature of West Virginia: