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
Arrived at 6:05 p.m. Well, I cannot tell you how very pleased everyone
was to see me. Went in at once to see the president of a concern and
told him everything. He was entirely satisfied and told me to commence
work in the morning, which I did. They all have used me fine, and I
would never know I had been away for no one mentions it. Brother, I
think of you fifty times a day, of the unselfish, never fatiguing
interest you manifested in my behalf, of the hundred and one favors, and
when I think that was only a single factor in your work, I cannot but
wonder how you stand the strain.
Cannot tell you how much I prize liberty, and I owe having it, to a
great extent, to your dear self. I assure you your efforts and prayers
of yourself and wife for me done wonders. I have fully resolved to be a
good man.
Brother Herr, I am going to close, for I am going to write to you every
few days, as I consider you as dear as an own brother. Give my sincere
regards to any inquiring friends. My heartiest to your dear wife, and
may God bless you both. I do.
I am affectionately yours,
W.
A TRIBUTE FROM JOS. M. O'HARA.
The success that has attended the efforts of this truly pious and
angelic woman in her noble and heroic work of rescuing sinful men and
women from the vortex of ruin and perdition is marvelous; and her labor
among the prisoners of the county jail is not less remarkable. Mrs.
Herr, unlike many religious workers, realizes that before attempting to
moralize with a prisoner, his confidence must first be gained, and to
accomplish this she invariably succeeds in dispelling that false and
erroneous opinion so prevalent among criminals, that they are held in
contempt by society and are considered undeserving of sympathy and
assistance; then, by kind and encouraging words and gentle deed,
instills, not by the dry and laborious way of the brain, but into the
heart, the story of the kind and loving Saviour.
Like her contemporary, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Herr possesses that
divinely urgent and persistent, yet gentle and sympathetic spirit that
can persuade where others cannot convince; that can subdue where others
cannot conquer.
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