[Illustration] Twice-Born Men in America OR The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work BY HARRIET EARHART MONROE ALSO AUTHOR OF “CONVERSATION AS A SCIENCE AND AN ART,” “HEROINE OF THE MINING CAMP,” “HISTORICAL LUTHERANISM,” “THE LIFE OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS,” AND “WASHINGTON—ITS SIGHTS AND INSIGHTS” PHILADELPHIA, PA.: THE LUTHERAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HARRIET EARHART MONROE PREFACE I taught psychology for fifteen years at the Atchison Institute, the predecessor of Midland College, located at Atchison, Kan. I was there greatly impressed by the fact that the books gave no adequate analysis of the psychology of the greatest mental and moral change which can come to the human mind, namely, conversion and regeneration; yet these changes make the great difference which we see between men and nations. A Rescue Mission gives a great opportunity to study mental and moral changes, and my observations and conclusions, made from years of study, are herein embodied. This book is sent forth with the earnest hope and prayer that it will lead many souls to Christ; also that it will show earnest laymen just how to bring about that psychological change which we call conversion. A Sunday school teacher who brings only ninety per cent of her students through the process of conversion and regeneration is ninety per cent a success and ten per cent failure. The same is true of a pastor with a class of catechumens. “Ye must be born again,” is just as true to-day as it ever was, and if we believed it as Paul believed it, what live wires we would be. This book is to remind us that Jesus saves to the uttermost in our day, just as He did when He visibly walked this earth. HARRIET E. MONROE, 204 A Street, S. E., Washington, D. C. JULY 29, 1914. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE HOW I HAPPENED TO BECOME INTERESTED IN RESCUE MISSION WORK 7 CHAPTER II RESCUE MISSION WORK 22 CHAPTER III INCIDENTS SHOWING THE POWER OF GOD TO SAVE 29 CHAPTER IV AN ELEMENT OF HUMOR IN RESCUE WORK 36 CHAPTER V BIG FEET 44 CHAPTER VI