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
Your letter received yesterday made me very happy. It was so good
of you to write so soon and send such a nice long letter, too. I
trust I am getting to value a letter from you as I ought, as I
realize more and more how your time is so zealously occupied and
needed. I have ever valued your letters for the help they gave
me, but I value them now for their scarcity. In the future, when
perhaps you may be no more, I shall esteem them among my most
valued treasures. Yet I may be called first! We know not the
hour, whether in youth, or old age, or in our prime when the
angel of death shall come to summon us to eternity. "Watch
therefore, be ye also ready," are words that I try to keep ever
in mind, or rather to keep my mind so stayed on Christ that
moment by moment He shall keep me saved so that I shall never
need to whip myself into keeping watch for my Lord. I am glad you
believe in and have the blood cleansing freedom from all sin. It
is an experience that meets with much opposition from worldly
Christians and from some whose good works follow them. These
latter really enjoy the experience, but are prejudiced at the
name given to it by others. I know that it meets with much
opposition. The "Christian Witness" comes to the prison every
week. It is an exponent of holiness and very interesting, as well
as spiritual. I have a magazine which contains a story of an
ex-convict which would do some good to those who think there is
no hope or reform for such an individual. I shall mail you the
magazine, and if you can read it do so and give it to others to
read.
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