The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911Pennsylvania Prison Society
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
We, the undersigned, members of the Auditing Committee, have examined
the accounts of John Way, Treasurer, have compared the payments with
the vouchers, and believe the same to be correct, there being a balance
to the credit of our deposit account under date of December 31, 1910,
of $1,235.10.
We have also examined the securities in the possession of our agents,
The Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, and have found
them to agree with an accompanying schedule.
JOHN SMALLZELL,
JOHN A. DUNCAN,
_Auditors_.
GENERAL AGENT’S REPORT.
Another year has passed and it becomes my duty to present to you a
report of the work of the General Agent. During the past year I have
visited over 6,000 men and women in the prisons in Philadelphia, and
talked to them of the past and the future. I feel that much good has
been accomplished and that while it is impossible to measure the
amount of good accomplished by any fixed rule, yet there is evidence
in all directions that the seed sown in the Master’s name is bearing
fruit abundantly. All over this broad land of ours, in every prison
may be found the lost son or daughter; it gives the world but little
concern so long as it is some one else’s son or daughter who occupies
a prison cell. Go through the prisons of our State and nine times
out of every ten the prisoners will tell you they never would have
thought of getting into prison; in a moment of temptation they fell
and the world turns from them when the walls of the prison separates
them from the outer world. My experience has taught me that if we were
more sympathetic, more interested in fallen humanity, there would be
less of crime. One Sabbath afternoon I visited a prison in western
Pennsylvania. I arrived at the prison just about the time for service.
As I was a member of the Pennsylvania Prison Society I was requested
to say a few words to the men and women. My remarks were brief, and I
closed with, “Your mother or wife, or sister is praying for you to-day,
and when you leave your prison cell, go home to your mother, your wife,
or to your sister; go back to your church, and God will bless and
help you to be a better man or woman.” One prisoner went to his cell
weeping. I followed him to his cell and said to him, “Brother, why do
you weep?” and he answered, “When you said ‘mother’ it touched a tender
spot, and when I leave here I will go right home to her and will be a
better man.”
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