The Nation Behind Prison BarsHerr, George L. (George Lewis)
Religion
The Nation Behind Prison Bars
Herr, George L. (George Lewis)
Church work with criminals; Evangelists
I take pleasure in commending my friend and brother, Geo. L. Herr, as a
devout Christian and earnest worker for the salvation of men. He has
had wide experience on both sides of the line, and has been greatly
blessed in rescuing men who have gone down into the depths of sin. He
has been especially blessed in prison work. Those who help him forward
in the good work in which he is now engaged will do me a personal favor.
Wishing him and his wife great success as they shall go from prison to
prison seeking after the lost,
I am Respectfully yours,
H. C. MORRISON.
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Rev. James M. Taylor, world-wide evangelist, says:
I have read with soul-stirring interest the sad, heart-rending
experience of Bro. Herr, and the miraculous deliverance by the grace of
God, how by a life of sin he squandered a fortune, how God found him a
bond slave of appetite and other sins and delivered him, the romantic
way in which his God-given companion entered his life, and how they are
being used perhaps as no other persons today in helping those "behind
the bars." This story will warn the reckless, encourage the "cast out"
and put a desire in the heart to help the fallen.
JAMES M. TAYLOR, Evangelist.
Knoxville, Tenn.
(Frankfort Journal.)
The Rev. Geo. L. Herr, of Louisville, will spend the fourth as the guest
of Rev. Jos. Severance, chaplain of the State prison, today. Rev. Herr
is a widely known, talented and enthusiastic prison evangelist, and has
a national reputation as such. He will shortly publish his famous
sermon, "Man's Worst Enemy," and will place numerous copies of it in
every penal institution of the United States.
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Prison Evangelist's Good Work
(Courier-Journal.)
Prison evangelists published in 1906-07 36,000 sermons in booklet form
and sent them North, South, East and West. The Rev. George L. Herr and
wife closed a most remarkable year. The meetings which they have held
for the most part have been in large prison houses, erected for sinful
men and women.
Mr. Herr has delivered sermons to many thousand listeners; many have
professed conversion and thousands have asked for prayer. The good that
this work has done will probably never be fully known until the business
of this old world has been brought to a close. Influences have been set
in motion that are going to roll on until time shall be no more.
Rev. W. O. Vreeland, chaplain Frankfort Reformatory, says:
It gives me great pleasure to testify of the splendid work among the
prisoners done by a man I believe to be deeply consecrated to the work
of rescuing the "fallen brother." George Herr is worthy of the highest
commendation.
W. O. VREELAND.
Oct. 12, 1912.
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