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
Closing the meeting, I thought of being alone on the street at night
with scarcely any money and not knowing my way back to my lodging
place. I said, "Oh, Lord, you know all about it." Walking along I came
to the mission and stepping in I took a seat near the door. While I
sat praying, a brother rose and told the circumstances of the street
meeting I had held, and that one of the worst men in the city had been
converted through its instrumentality. The man had told the brother
that God had saved him and he was going home to write eight letters to
his people, some of them in this and some in the old country, to tell
them what great things God had done for him. God knew I was there and
sent the message to encourage me. After the service in the hall had
closed a young lady who proved to be the daughter of the landlady
where I had been staying, came to me and walked to her home with me. I
could not have found my way alone, not having their number, but God
cared for me.
Some extracts are given from reports of the work which were published
at different points during the first few years of my labors:
CONVERTED TO CHRIST.
THE CASE OF THE UNFORTUNATE WOMAN--CARD FROM MR. M.
Editor Hawk-Eye: Last evening at about seven o'clock Mrs.
Wheaton, the prison evangelist, and another lady of the
evangelists and myself held a meeting on the levee. Mrs. Wheaton,
who spoke on the future consequence of sin with unusual
earnestness, had the effect of breaking down Mrs. A. into tears.
Mrs. Wheaton went up to her and spoke to her. In a few moments
the unfortunate woman broke into ecstasies of joy and commenced
to leap around in a circle. For ten minutes she kept up praising
God and leaping, when suddenly she leaped through the great crowd
around, some now being horrified, who, like many poor,
unfortunate people, never saw a sudden conversion. She ran up
Jefferson street, where she was arrested and locked up.
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