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
Rusk, Tex., April 7, 1904.
Mrs. E. R. Wheaton.
Dear Sister: Your kind postal was read to "The Boys" last Sunday
and I was requested to answer it. They enjoyed your words of love
and sympathy very much. The "old timers" remember you well, and
the new men know you through the old ones.
John B. Reagan is Assistant Superintendent, J. H. Meeks, Warden
or, as he is called here, Underkeeper; J. H. Walker, Assistant
Financial Agent, and I am Chaplain.
We would like so much for you to visit us. If you make
arrangements to come let me know and I will meet you at the
depot.
Yours in the work,
J. L. DAWSON.
* * * * *
Accompanying the following tribute from Bro. Munro, chaplain of the
Mission to the "Tombs" Prison in New York City, we give cuts of the
old "Tombs" where I have held services a number of times, and of the
"New Tombs" which has not been occupied a great while. Also a short
extract taken from the annual report of the chaplain.
[Illustration: THE OLD TOMBS]
[Illustration: THE NEW TOMBS]
Gospel Mission to the Tombs.
Rev. J. J. Munro, Chaplain.
New York City, June 24, 1904.
Dear Sister Wheaton,
Prison Evangelist,
Chicago, Ill.
I am glad to hear that you are writing a book on prison labors.
You certainly have had much experience in that line. I trust your
book will have a wide circulation in which the marvels of God's
free grace to men and women behind the bars will be fully seen.
I take much pleasure in commending your prison labors for the
Master. For when you came to the Tombs it gave me great joy to
hear you speak to the prisoners. And your earnest words for lost
souls will not be soon forgotten. Success to you and may God's
richest blessing be with you.
In the Master's name,
JOHN J. MUNRO.
EXTRACT.
"Crime among boys and young men has increased greatly during the
last few years. I cannot account for this except on the ground of
a noticeable increase in the social high pressure.
"The temptations today are greater than ever and swamp the young
men by the hundreds before they reach their majority. I meet
these boys in prison--white and colored--and talk to them. I find
out their needs and try to help them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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