Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of LoveWheaton, Elizabeth Ryder
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Prisons and Prayer; Or, a Labor of Love
Wheaton, Elizabeth Ryder
Evangelistic work; Prisons
Mrs. Elizabeth Rider Wheaton is in town and last night and
yesterday afternoon addressed a large audience at the revival
services which Rev. Mr. Cooper, of St. Paul's M. E. church is
conducting in a tent situated near his church, on Walton avenue.
She reached this city Saturday evening over the Pennsylvania.
Having missed a train at Warsaw en route to visit a sister who
lives at Elkhart, she was directed, she said by the Lord, after
prayer, to come to Fort Wayne to spend the Sabbath. On the way
over her singing and praying on the train attracted attention to
her and a member of the Wayne Street Methodist Church, on
learning who she was, invited her and her sister, Mrs. Hoffman,
to spend the night at his home. She had heard, she said, of the
meetings that Mr. Cooper is conducting, and she said, with a
manner of absolute confidence, that she had been directed to
attend these meetings. Rev. Mr. Cooper said yesterday that the
meeting was in progress as she and her companion entered and that
he was impressed to speak to her. On learning her name he knew
her instantly by fame as the widely traveled and much beloved
prison evangelist. She was given a welcome and was at once asked
to participate in the services. At the night meeting there were a
thousand people, it is said, who listened enrapt to her prayers
and moving appeals to the sinner to accept the salvation in which
she so thoroughly believes.
The prisoners at the jail were her first concern Sunday morning.
She told Mr. Cooper that after arising she turned to her Bible
for guidance and her eyes fell upon certain Scripture which
contained the word prison three times. She took this as evidence
that she should first visit the jail and thither she went. It is
quickly apprehended by those who come in contact with her that
she pauses not when directed, as she believes, to do a service in
the cause of the Master, but goes at once. She has no
questionings of faith.
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