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
We left Indianapolis at 3:05 p. m., Monday. After we started
Mother Wheaton, who was with us, started up a song, then went to
the front of the car, and standing in the aisle she began
preaching to the people. She moved down the aisle still
preaching, taking about ten minutes to come through the car. This
she did several times, then went through the dining and palace
cars. As she told of her prison work, how God could save
criminals, we could see tears come into the eyes of the
passengers. A U. S. marshal sitting near us became much affected,
and made inquiry of Brother S. B. Shaw who the woman was, and
said he knew what she said was true, and said he desired to be
saved. A wealthy Mexican on the train, whose wife had recently
died while he was on a trip to Europe, was also brought under
conviction, and would have Sister Wheaton take dinner in the
dining car; also had Sisters Wheaton and Shaw take a berth in the
sleeper at his expense. I must not forget to tell you that
Brother Shaw gave us an excellent talk standing in the aisle of
the car.
FAVOR THE R. R. CO.
I sometimes have an opportunity to do a kindness for the R. R. Co., in
return for the many favors they do for me. At one time I reached the
railroad station at Fort Worth, Texas, before my train arrived. While
we were waiting for a Santa Fe train, an old lady who was evidently
not in her right mind and who had been sent by friends to go alone to
other friends who lived at a distance, of her own accord tried to
climb over one train to get to another and was injured. The injury was
caused by her own mental condition and through no fault of the
railroad men.
Before she left us, I wrote a little message of love and put it into
her hand bag with my name and address on it. In a few days I received
the following letter from her attorneys.
Fort Worth, Tex., November 21, 1898.
Mrs. E. R. Wheaton, Tabor, Iowa.
Dear Madam: We conclude from a kind and sympathetic letter you
wrote to Mrs. Harper, the old lady who fell from the platform at
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway depot at Fort Worth, Tex.,
on Friday night, the 11th day of November, that you likely saw
the old lady fall. And perhaps you can tell us how she came to
fall and who else saw her when she fell. Mrs. Harper has employed
us to sue the railroad company for said injuries. She claims that
she walked off of the platform where there were no railings and
fell between two freight cars left standing on the track, left so
far apart that she could see the railroad car she wanted to board
between said opening so left. Will you please write us all you
know about the matter, and who else saw it, if any one, and where
such person or persons live if you know. By doing so you will
greatly oblige,
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