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
During her stay here Mother Wheaton has been kept very busy about
her Master's business. She has visited about all the prisons and
eleemosynary institutions in the city, singing, praying and
exhorting the inmates to a better life. She has been at the
Mission every night, and we have had some wonderful meetings.
Sister J. H. Haag has been her almost constant companion and the
two have done splendid work. On her way from the Mission this
Mother in Israel has several times stopped in at saloons, and
talked to all present about their soul's welfare. She is
intrepid--absolutely without fear--and well she may be for she
leans upon the Everlasting Arm.
We do not know how long she will stay with us, but probably for
some days, as she now has several invitations on hand. She will
go when and where the Lord leads her. Our prayer is that she may
be made the instrument of winning many souls to Christ that her
crown in glory may be studded with precious jewels. She says of
herself that she "has no home but heaven."
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(From Pacific Garden Mission.)
Chicago, October 6, 1903.
My Dear Sister Wheaton, God's Chosen One:
How I praise my heavenly Father for your life and that I ever
knew you, and for your unselfish mercy to the poor and neglected
classes. May you long be spared to "gather them in from the
fields of sin" is the prayer of
Your sister in Christ,
SARAH D. CLARK,
Pacific Garden Mission.
SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS.
During the early years of my mission work I arrived one day alone in a
Southern city. Went to the postoffice and was reading my mail when a
good old man stepped up and inquired who I was and where I stopped. I
told him I had just arrived. He said, "Come home with me. My wife has
a room and a home for good women like you." I was praying for an open
door. Did not know where I was going to stay over night, but was sure
God had sent me to that place. I found them kind, hospitable people.
He was an old-fashioned Methodist preacher already superannuated, and
he has long since gone to his reward. He sent for the pastor of their
church and arranged for me to hold a meeting. I went at the request of
the pastor to visit an old lady who was sick; thought best to have an
open air meeting on the street and invite people to the church that
night. During the service on the street I noticed a very well dressed,
fine looking young man. When I closed he came to me and taking my
hand asked me to call at his store a few doors away. I did so and he
gave me a fountain pen and seemed unusually interested in what I had
said.
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