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
My first acquaintance with Mrs. Elizabeth Wheaton was made in the
Florence Crittenton Midnight Mission, New York City, in 1890. She
impressed me then and has ever since as one whom God has called
and endowed with special gifts for a grand and noble work. Her
one strong hold is faith in God. When under the power of the
Spirit she verily treads upon serpents and scorpions and all the
powers of darkness seem to flee before her. As a singing
evangelist for prison work, I do not know her equal. Her
preaching is in the demonstration of the Spirit and with power.
She gives the Lord's message with holy boldness, fraught with
tender love to the sinner, and blessed are the results.
The midnight call given on train, when it was my privilege to be
with her, was an hour never to be forgotten. Many will rise up
and call her blessed in that great day who but for her favored
and wonderful ministry would have gone into outer darkness. God
bless her and her book.
MOTHER PRINDLE.
The following taken from "Beulah Home Record," Chicago, Ill., March 1,
1902, is explanatory in itself. Also the letter that follows:
We have had with us for a time, as our honored guest, Mother
Wheaton, the Railroad Prison Evangelist. Like Jesus, the friend
of poor sinners, she goes up and down the land in state prisons
and homes where mothers' girls are sheltered, down into the coal
mines, into the great lumber camps, and on crowded railroad
trains, while speeding along, she preaches the everlasting gospel
of our Lord and Savior, and gives out tracts. Thus she goes as
God's flaming minister, sowing beside all waters, singing and
praying poor sin-sick, tempest-tossed souls into the kingdom of
God. Do you ask what is the secret of her success? It may be
found in the Psalms, 126:6--"She goeth forth weeping," she has a
burning love for souls. So you and I, dear reader, if we are to
succeed in winning souls, our hearts must be full of love for
them. We give Mother Wheaton a warm welcome to this great and
wicked city of Chicago and a hearty welcome always to Beulah
Home.
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Berachah Home for Erring Girls,
2719 Lawton Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
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