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Herr + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Nation Behind Prison Bars + +Author: George L. Herr + +Release Date: February 9, 2011 [EBook #35221] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NATION BEHIND PRISON BARS *** + + + + +Produced by David Garcia, Leonard Johnson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This +file was produced from images generously made available +by The Kentuckiana Digital Library) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 430px;"> +<img src="images/ill-001.jpg" width="430" height="600" alt="GEORGE L. HERR AND WIFE" title="" /> +<p class="caption">GEORGE L. HERR AND WIFE</p> +</div> + + + + +<div class="front"> +<h1><span style="font-size:.8em;">THE</span><br /><br /> + +NATION BEHIND PRISON BARS<br /><br /></h1> + + +<p>BY</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">George L. Herr</span>, Prison Evangelist</p> + + + +<p style="margin: 4em 0;">"<i>I was in prison, and ye came unto me</i>"</p> + + + +<p style="font-size: .8em">PUBLISHED BY</p> + +<p>THE CARTER PRINTING COMPANY</p> + +<p style="font-size: .8em"><span class="smcap">Louisville, Kentucky</span></p> + + +<div style="font-size: .8em; margin:6em 0;"> +<p>COPYRIGHT 1913</p> + +<p>BY</p> + +<p>GEORGE L. HERR, LOUISVILLE, KY.</p> +</div> + + +<p style="font-size: 1.4em">To My Wife</p> + +<p>WHOSE CONSTANT HELP AND</p> + +<p>ENCOURAGEMENT</p> + +<p>MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO THE WORK</p> + +<p>TO WHICH</p> + +<p style="font-size: 1.4em">God</p> + +<p>HAS CALLED ME, THIS VOLUME IS</p> + +<p>INSCRIBED WITH THE</p> + +<p>PRAYER THAT</p> + +<p style="font-size: 1.4em">God</p> + +<p>WILL USE IT TO SAVE MANY SOULS</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_iv" id="Page_iv">[Pg iv]</a></span></p> + + + +<h1>The Nation Behind Prison Bars</h1> + +<p class="center">BY</p> + +<p class="center" style="font-size: 1.3em;">GEORGE L. HERR, Prison Evangelist</p> + +<p class="center">Author of "Light in Dark Places," "You Are My Prisoner,"<br /> +"The Life Line," "Man's Worst Enemy," "Nothing<br /> +Better," "The Missionary," "The Bethel,"<br /> +"Lost and Is Found," and "A<br /> +Glorious Rescue."</p> + +<p class="center">THE WORLD OF PRISONERS UNKNOWN TO MANY<br /> +BROUGHT FORWARD IN DESCRIPTIVE<br /> +SPEECH AND VIVID PICTURES</p> + + +<p>There are enough people in prison in these United States +to furnish a citizenship to a considerable territory, or to +populate a good-sized city. For the psychological student, +they form the most interesting of all objects of study. For +the philanthropist, and for the Christian missionary, they +constitute a wonderful field of activity. How to lift them +out of the criminal strata is the question to which Mr. +Herr is devoting his life, in an effort to answer. In a good +measure he is answering it. Many prisoners to whom the +grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation, will rise to +call him blessed.—Rev. Jno. Paul, Mississippi.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 479px;"> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">My Devoted Father</span></p> +<img src="images/ill-008.jpg" width="479" height="600" alt="My Devoted Father" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Hon.</span> RICHARD S. HERR<br /> +"And their works do follow them."</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">My Precious Mother</span></p> +<img src="images/ill-009.jpg" width="445" height="600" alt="My Precious Mother" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Mrs.</span> RICHARD S. HERR<br /> +"Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works +praise her in the gates."</p> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[Pg v]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Foreword" id="Foreword"></a>Foreword</h2> + + +<p>Gathered within these pages are recitals of scenes +and incidents in a field of existence fortunately unfamiliar +to the majority of our readers. The subject +has been handled without any attempt to embellish +the hard facts or gloss over the cruel details—the paramount +desire upon the part of the author being an +endeavor to show the crying necessity for a constant, +earnest labor among the unfortunates who are shut +away from God's sunshine; whom God still loves, despite +their sins of omission and commission. If the +perusal of this volume brings to the reader a belief +that the cause is worthy, that labor in this field brings +a reward which amply compensates for the time and +effort expended, the author will rest in the knowledge +of a duty well performed. There has been no effort +at exaggeration in presenting these sketches of daily +experiences among the outcasts of society, no straining +for effect, no striving to paint word pictures that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[Pg vi]</a></span> +may touch the heart. It is simply the story of everyday +life in the field of the prison missionary's labor, +and is given to the public with a fervent prayer that +God, in His infinite wisdom, will instill in the hearts +of our readers a feeling of charity toward those whose +burden is almost greater than they can bear.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">Faithfully,</div> +<div>G. L. H.</div> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Contents" id="Contents"></a>Contents</h2> + +<table summary="Table of Contents" width="100%" border="0"> +<tr><td colspan="2">Title</td> +<td align="right">i</td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Copyright</td> +<td align="right">ii</td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Dedication</td> +<td align="right">iii</td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Advertisement</td> +<td align="right">iv</td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Foreword">Foreword</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_v">v</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Contents">Contents</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_vii">vii</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Illustrations">Illustrations</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_ix">ix</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Commendation_from_Louisville">Commendations from Louisville Ministers</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_x">x</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Story_of_the_Life_of_Geo_L_Herr">Story of the Life of Geo. L. Herr</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_xiii">xiii</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Subscription Card</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_xvi">xvi</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_FIRST">Chapter First—Life of Geo. L. Herr</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_TWO">Chapter Second—"Lost, and Is Found"</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_THREE">Chapter Third—"Political Peril," Sermon by Dr. E. L. Powell</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_FOUR">Chapter Fourth—"Christ the Interpreter," Sermon by Dr. Hawes</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_FIVE">Chapter Fifth—Throwing Out the Life Line</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_SIX">Chapter Sixth—Reformation of Criminals</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Visit to Nashville Prison</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_SEVEN">Chapter Seven—Does Prison Work Pay?</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>The Work of a Prison Evangelist</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Youtsey, Kentucky's Famous Prisoner</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td><ins title="Original had Pratical.">Practical</ins> Religious Work in County Jail</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Praise for Prison Evangelist</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Sermon in State Prison</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Revival Stirs Up Inmates</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_EIGHT">Chapter Eight—A Man of Honor</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_NINE">Chapter Nine—Jim O'Brien, the Modern Miracle</a></td> +<td align="right">76<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[Pg viii]</a></span></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Jim O'Brien Passes Away</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_TEN">Chapter Ten—Columbus Ohio Prison</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>The Big Ohio "Pen" Week by Week</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td> </td><td>Chapel Services</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_89">89</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHAPTER_ELEVEN">Chapter Eleven—Incontestable Proof</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Prison_Evangelists_Good_Work">Prison Evangelist's Good Work</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#A_Grand_Work_Highly_Commended">A Grand Work Highly Commended—John R. Pflanz</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Worked_Wonders">"Worked Wonders"</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Strong_Endorsements">Strong Endorsement</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_101">101</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Speaks_to_Prisoners">Speaks to Prisoners</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Sad_and_Pitiful_Stories">Sad and Pitiful Story</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Resolution_That_Was_Never_Broken">Resolution Never Broken</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#What_Is_A_Friend">What is a Friend?</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Another_Chance_I_Crave">"Another Chance I Crave"</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Letter_from_the_Late_Col_Will_S_Hays">Letter from Col. Will S. Hays</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_110">110</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#The_Late_J_P_Scheider">Letter from Capt. Scheider</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Profanity_Shows_Mental_Deficiency">Profanity Shows Mental Deficiency</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#At_Cincinnati_Workhouse">Cincinnati Work House</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Extermination_of_Habitual_Criminals">Extermination of Habitual Criminals</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Criminal_Becomes_Minister">Criminal Becomes Minister</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#To_Brother_George_L_Herr">Poem to Brother Herr</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Success_of_Reformed_Criminals">Success of Reform Criminals—Wm. A. Pinkerton</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#A_LETTER_FROM_EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_OF_THE_STAR">Letter from Editor Star of Hope</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_137">137</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Lost_and_Is_Found">Lost and is Found</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_138">138</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Christmas_at_Frankfort_Prison">Christmas at the Frankfort Prison</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_139">139</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Hundreds_of_Letters">Hundreds of Letters</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_144">144</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#A_TRIBUTE_FROM_JOS_M_OHARA">A Tribute from Jos. M. O'Hara</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_145">145</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#FISHING_FOR_MEN">Fishing for Men</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_147">147</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Branch_Library_in_the_Jail">Branch Library in the Jail</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_149">149</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CHANGE_COMES_IN_CURT_JETT">Change comes in Curt Jett</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_151">151</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Christian_Endeavor_at_Frankfort_Prison">Christian Endeavor at Frankfort Prison</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_158">158</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Capital_Punishment">Capital Punishment</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_165">165</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#Indiana_Reformatory">Indiana Reformatory</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_168">168</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Indiana Reformatory Chapel Services</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_169">169</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#CLING_TO_THE_BIBLE">Clinging to the Bible</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_172">172</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2">Tree of Life and Knowledge</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_173">173</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#DO_YOU_KNOW_THE_WORLD_IS_DYING_FOR_A">The World Dying for Love</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="#GET_REV_HERRS_NEW_BOOK">George L. Herr's New Book</a></td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_176">176</a></td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="Illustrations" id="Illustrations"></a>Illustrations</h2> + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="List of Illustrations"> +<tr><td>Geo. L. Herr and Wife—Frontispiece</td> +<td align="right">i</td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Late Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Herr</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_iv">iv</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. Chas. R. Hemphill, D.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_xv">xv</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. Steve P. Holcombe</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Late Mr. George Gaulbert</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. Carter Helm Jones</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Late Rev. E. A. Ferguson</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. E. L. Powell</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>First Christian Church and Presbyterian Theological Seminary</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. T. M. Hawes, D.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. Henry Clay Morrison, D.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. John Paul</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Dwight L. Moody</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Valentine Burke</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Late Col. Mat. Ragland</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Jefferson County Jail</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_58">58</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Late Hon. J. C. Bohart</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_60">60</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Hon. John R. Pflanz</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_64">64</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rev. C. S. Hanley</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_92">92</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Hon. Chas. F. Grainger</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Judge Aaron Kohn</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Rt. Rev. Chas. E. Woodcock, D.D.</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>The Hon. and Mrs. John L. Whitman</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_116">116</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Gospel Service at the County Jail, Chicago, Ill</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Wm. A. Pinkerton</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_124">124</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Louisville Free Public Library</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_149">149</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Curtis Jett</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_151">151</a></td></tr> + +<tr><td>Henry E. Youtsey</td> +<td align="right"><a href="#Page_158">158</a></td></tr> +</table> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[Pg x]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="Commendation_from_Louisville" id="Commendation_from_Louisville"></a>Commendation from Louisville +Ministers</h2> + + +<div class="date">Louisville, Ky., Jan. 27, 1910.</div> + +<div>To His Honor Judge Muir Weissinger,</div> +<div style="margin-left:3em;">Judge of the County Court,</div> +<div style="margin-left:6em;">Jefferson County, Ky.</div> + + +<p>Dear Sir:</p> + +<p>The undersigned Ministers of the Gospel in the city +of Louisville, being members of the Ministerial Association, +do hereby recommend to your Honor the appointment +of the Rev. George L. Herr, a regular ordained +minister of the gospel, as Chaplain of the +Jefferson County Jail, in accordance with Part 9, Sections +627-632 Russell Statutes, 1909, inclusive.</p> + +<p>The Rev. Mr. Herr is thoroughly well qualified to +fill the position of Chaplain at the County Jail, he +having for seven years previous to the enactment of +the present law given up his time and money in this +noble work, without compensation from any source +whatever, either state, county or city, as the present +Jailer of Jefferson County and many other will testify.</p> + +<ul id="ministers"> +<li>R. D. SMART, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Broadway Methodist Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>CHARLES R. HEMPHILL, +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xi" id="Page_xi">[Pg xi]</a></span> + <ul> + <li>Professor Presbyterian Theological Seminary.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>W. N. BRINEY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Broadway Christian Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>W. J. CLARKE, + <ul> + <li>Minister Clifton Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>A. R. KASEY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Clifton Crescent Hill Methodist Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>S. G. SHELLEY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Jefferson St. Methodist Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>THAD. S. TINSLEY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Third Christian Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>W. F. IRWIN, + <ul> + <li>4th Ave. Presbyterian Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>E. B. PATTERSON, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Trinity Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>W. R. HENDRIX, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Methodist Temple.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>J. T. RUSHING, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Virginia Ave. M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>D. B. GREGORY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Woodland Pres. Church U. S.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>G. W. NUTTER, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Parkland Christian Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>B. F. ATKINSON, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Rivers Memorial M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>C. F. WIMBERTY, + <ul> + <li>Marcus Lindsay Memorial.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>CHAS. A. HUMPHREY, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Portland M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>J. D. SIGLER<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xii" id="Page_xii">[Pg xii]</a></span></li> + +<li>E. L. POWELL, + <ul> + <li>Pastor First Christian Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>S. H. LOVELACE, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Oakdale Methodist Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>C. R. CROWE, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Highland Park and Hill Street.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>T. R. KENDALL, + <ul> + <li>Lander Memorial Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>T. L. CRANDELL, + <ul> + <li>Dumesnil M. E. Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>C. E. CARTER, + <ul> + <li>Asbury M. E. Church.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>ARTHUR W. BROOK, + <ul> + <li>M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>W. B. BEAUCHAMP, + <ul> + <li>Pastor Fourth Ave. M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> + +<li>J. R. McAFEE, + <ul> + <li>West Broadway M. E. Church, South.</li> + </ul></li> +</ul> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiii" id="Page_xiii">[Pg xiii]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Story_of_the_Life_of_Geo_L_Herr" id="Story_of_the_Life_of_Geo_L_Herr"></a>Story of the Life of Geo. L. Herr</h2> + + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr, prison evangelist, has received +from Chicago his book entitled "The Story of His +Life," by Edward De Alma. Mr. Herr distributed 100 +copies yesterday in the Jefferson County jail, and the men +received them with great eagerness. Mr. Herr will place +the story in all penal institutions. A letter from the Rev. +James M. Taylor, complimenting the book, says: "I have +read with soul-stirring interest the sad, heart-rending experience +of Brother Herr, and the miraculous deliverance +by the grace of God; how, by a life of sin, he squandered a +fortune; how God found him and gave him deliverance; +the romantic way in which his God-given companion entered +his life and how they are being used, perhaps, as no +other persons to-day in helping those behind the bars. This +story will warn the reckless, encourage the 'outcast,' and +put a desire in the hearts of thousands to lead better +lives."—<i>Louisville Courier-Journal</i></p> + +<p>The Rev. Paul, of Meridian, Miss., says: "The story of +Brother Herr's life, 'Redeemed from the depths of sin to +the mountain top of salvation,' is a thrilling narrative, published +as a warning to the fallen."</p> + +<p>The Rev. J. B. Foote, chaplain of the Onondaga county +penitentiary, in New York, acknowledging receipt of the +life story of Mr. Herr and thanking him for it, states in his +letter that he will use the book in his preaching in prison.</p> + +<p>When asked if prison work paid, Mr. Herr said: "Who +will ever know the vast number that will attribute their +first impulse to a better life, formed while in the seclusion +of a prison cell, while reading this book. The world will +never know how many, when sitting in judgment upon +themselves, have learned the great secret, that it takes an<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xiv" id="Page_xiv">[Pg xiv]</a></span> +omnipotent power to change the current of their lives and +give them deliverance from the power of sin, and enabling +them to go forth, not to live a new purpose, but a new +life."</p> + +<p>In 1909 Mr. Herr published 150,000 sermons, books and +tracts.</p> + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr, whose address delivered in +our chapel last Sunday morning was charmingly refreshing, +is a man whose vicissitudes of life lead through a labyrinth +that would require a half century of years to make +its journey at an ordinary pace.—Rev. D. J. Starr, D.D., +Ohio Penitentiary.</p> + +<p>Bro. Herr knows the prison work as few men do. He is +a man of large sympathy, and having had an experience of +fifteen years as an evangelist, knows how to reach the +hearts of the men. He has the entire confidence of both +prisoners and officials and is always given a most hearty +welcome by all.—Jos. Severance, Chaplain.</p> + +<p>"The large number who have been helped by hearing +your message will be still further benefited by reading your +book."—Rev. Albert J. Steelman, Ph.D., Chaplain, Illinois +State Penitentiary.</p> + +<p>Get Rev. Herr's book for your good, but chiefly for the +good of others.</p> + +<p>Rev. C. R. Hemphill, D.D., Louisville, Ky.: "I believe +Rev. George L. Herr especially equipped for the difficult +work of an evangelist to those in prison and to the +neglected."</p> + +<p>Rev. Wm. Edmond Foster: "His love for lost souls and +his zeal knows no bounds. I bespeak for him a life of +great usefulness to his fellowmen without hope and without +God."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 310px;"> +<img src="images/ill-021.jpg" width="310" height="400" alt="Rev. CHAS. R. HEMPHILL, D.D." title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. CHAS. R. HEMPHILL, d.d.</span><br /> +President Presbyterian Theological +Seminary, Louisville, Ky. One of the +South's greatest scholars and teachers; +whose heart is full of sympathy for +and helpfulness of the unfortunate.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[Pg xv]</a></span></p> + +<p>Rev. Horace G. Ogden, D.D., New York: "I have been +placed where I have known intimately his work as prison +evangelist. I can say he has made a superb record. He +has taken an enlarged field of work, and I have every confidence +in his increased usefulness. His book merits a +large circulation."</p> + +<p>Rev. Ed. Ferguson: "For years he, with his most estimable +wife, have given their time and talent to the uplifting +of the down-trodden of this great metropolis and +they have the respect and hearty co-operation of the best +people in Louisville."</p> + +<p>Rev. James M. Taylor: "The story will warn the reckless, +encourage the 'outcast,' and put desire in the hearts +of thousands to lead better lives."</p> + +<p>Rev. T. T. Taliaferro, Chaplain Kentucky State Prison: +"Your sermons are blessed of God to the furtherance of +the works of grace in our midst. May God bless you in +your noble work."</p> + +<p>Rev. W. O. Vreeland, Chaplain Kentucky State Prison: +"You are worthy of the highest commendation."</p> + +<p>Men's Bible Class, James Lee Memorial Presbyterian +Church: "Rev. George L. Herr's talk at last Sunday's session +was a treat."</p> + +<p>Rev. George L. Herr, 195 Coral Avenue, Louisville, Ky.: +"Who will ever know the vast number that will attribute +their first impulse to a better life, formed while in seclusion +of a prison cell while reading this book."</p> + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr is bringing out a book on prison +life which is abundantly capable of two effects, namely: +Enlisting the attention of readers, like a romance, and benefitting +the class of whom he writes. It is a two-hundred +page book, illustrated with pictures of prisons, and scenes +behind the bars.</p> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xvi" id="Page_xvi">[Pg xvi]</a></span></p> +<p style="margin-top:4em;"><span class="smcap">Dear Friend</span>:</p> + +<p>We know you will rejoice with us in the work being +accomplished behind prison bars. Many thousands we +are preaching the gospel to every year. There are +converts all over the United States that we hear from. +The outlook of the work was never more encouraging. +May we submit to you our plan to secure auxiliary +memberships at $10.00 each?</p> + +<p>Will you be one?</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;"><span class="smcap">Geo. L. Herr and Wife</span>,</div> +<div>Prison Evangelists.</div> +</div> + + +<p class="center" style="margin-top:4em;"><span class="smcap">Departments of Work.</span></p> + +<p>Distribution of thousands of papers, tracts, and +other religious reading.</p> + +<p>Visiting the sick and poor.</p> + +<p>Street work in the slums.</p> + +<p>Evangelistic work in the different penitentiaries a +specialty.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_FIRST" id="CHAPTER_FIRST"></a>CHAPTER FIRST</h2> + +<p class="chp">LIFE OF GEORGE L. HERR</p> + +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">By EDWARD De ALMA</span></p> + +<p class="center">A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING.</p> + +<p class="center">"As we sow so shall we reap."</p> + + +<p>Born in the city of Louisville, of an old Kentucky family, whose +escutcheon had never been shadowed by smirch or breath of shame or +ignominy, it might truthfully be said of George L. Herr that he had been +ushered into this world with the proverbial "gold spoon in his mouth," +his father, the late Richard S. Herr, being a prominent and highly +esteemed and wealthy citizen of the grand old state of Kentucky. Though +surrounded by the luxuries of life, by environments unusually favorable +for the development of a strong, healthy, vigorous and clean life, yet +Brother Herr's life from his youth up to the period of this writing, +presents an aspect checkered with the lights and shadows of temptation, +sin, remorse, repentance, redemption and restful peace of heart in +salvation through Jesus.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Give us help from trouble; for vain is the help of man.—Ps. +108:12.</p> + +<p>God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in +trouble.—Ps. 46:1.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the age of three months, the death of his precious +mother caused him to be given into the keeping +of his aunt, a noble Christian woman, and it was due +to her teachings that the seeds of reverence for God, +belief in his dearly beloved Son and faith in the +promise of a life of everlasting happiness were +planted deep in the recesses of George Herr's heart, +while his father, a Christian gentleman, spared no +efforts in his endeavor to bring up his son in the way +he should go.</p> + +<p>At the age of eighteen years, through the death of +his father, he came into the possession of a large estate, +but lacking the experience which usually comes +with maturity, he developed a spirit of independence +which soon brought in its train of attendant evils.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak; O Lord, +heal me.—Ps. 6:2.</p> + +<p>My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made +perfect in weakness.—2 Cor. 12:9.</p> +</div> + +<p>The story of George Herr's experience is the recital +of a man's gradual surrender to the power of drink, +until the enormity of his fall can but be depicted by +contrasting his condition with that as it was a few +years before. Then he was a well known young man of +Louisville's elite society, wealthy, respected, esteemed +and sought after. Friends without number, well +wishers innumerable, the door of any refined home in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> +the city would have swung wide open in welcome at +his knock. Now the other picture: A drunken outcast, +a prey to the buffetings of every chance wind of fate, +deprived of friends, stripped of wealth, position and +reputation; exposed to every form of evil, subject to +the cruelty of every character of temptation that assails +human nature. Ostracized from society, barred +from contact with any self-respecting acquaintance of +former days, can you imagine a more potent example +of the victory of Satan through the agency of his chief +field marshal, Drink? God grant that this may come +as a warning to some one of the thousands of young +men who, with prospects as bright or even more flattering +than were those of George Herr at the age of +eighteen, are at this moment entering upon the path +which will lead them, as it has countless thousands, +into the abyss of eternal destruction! God grant that +the moral to be drawn from this picture will burn itself +in indelible letters of fire upon the very soul of +each young man who reads this.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I am poor and needy; make haste unto me, O God.—Ps. +70:5.</p> + +<p>My God shall supply all your need, according to his +riches in glory by Christ Jesus.—Phil. 4:19.</p> +</div> + +<p>These were indeed dark days, the past a record of +sin, the present a nightmare of misery and shame, the +future black with the darkness of despair, with not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +the faintest gleam of hope to pierce the gloom. "Poor +fellow," you say, "only one of a multitude." Yes, +only the prototype of one of the thousands who are +traveling the same broad thoroughfare at this moment.</p> + +<p>It was at this critical juncture, when reputation +was blasted, hope departed and the future barren of +promises, that a remnant of respect for his home and +the associates of better days awakened the residuum +of pride remaining and brought the determination to +remove his unwelcome presence from the scenes of +former pleasures. He went West, but his hopes were +blasted, and penniless, homeless, wretched, obliged to +accept any kind of menial work in order to eke out +a bare living, he wandered about until an overwhelming +homesickness brought him back to Kentucky. +There was, perhaps, a flickering intention to do better, +to cut loose from the bands that bound him, but good +resolutions were made only to be broken, and the +cords of sin drawn tighter than ever.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?—Acts 9:6.</p> + +<p>Follow thou me.—John 21:22.</p> +</div> + +<p>None but God can realize the extreme bitterness of +that bondage, the depths of that dark and unrelieved +despair. Without light, without hope, without rest, +and worst of all, without Christ? With not one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +friendly hand held out to greet him, with not one +word of encouragement, but rather the cold glance of +scorn, the bitter sneer of contempt, it is not strange +that there stretched out before him apparently nothing +but a drunkard's life, a drunkard's death and an +endless eternity in a drunkard's hell.</p> + +<p>Then the fearful temptation of suicide met him; +but God, in his infinite mercy, destined him to pass +through even this fearful ordeal unharmed and spared +him that he might carry the gospel of a Savior's love +to a lost and ruined world. Then a helping hand was +extended. A lifelong friend, meeting him one day, +and overcome with pity, gave him one more chance +to make a man of himself, fitted him out with clothes, +gave him a railroad ticket and money, advising him +to leave Louisville and start life afresh elsewhere. But +the fetters of sin were riveted so strongly that the +well-meant advice of his boyhood friend was unheeded, +and a few hours found him in as fearful a +plight as ever. Then there came into this, the darkest +hour in all his life, the experience of the prodigal son. +A determination came into his life to sever forever +all ties binding him to the life of degradation he was +then living and to take the first step back into the narrow +path of righteousness.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Show me thy ways, O Lord.—Ps. 25:4.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was then that the Rev. Steve P. Holcombe of +Louisville, Ky., took him to the Union Gospel Mission.</p> + +<p>At this critical period there came within the radius +of his sphere of existence a noble, devout woman, who +proved to be the one thing needful to round out the +life now worth living. In spite of all remonstrances +on the part of her friends, she was greatly +interested in the welfare of this man and prayed earnestly +that God would make him a strong Christian +man.</p> + +<p>Her tireless energies, endless prayers and earnest +teachings were ever present to hold him up and help +him onward in the new life. God placed her in the +sphere of George Herr's experience at a critical stage, +using her as a medium for cementing his faith and determining +his purpose to devote his remaining years +to the work of redeeming unfortunates sunk in the +darkness of sin. Their destinies were welded together +by mutual interest in the work of saving lost men and +the affinity of feeling between them developed into a +bond of love, each seeing within the other those qualities +necessary to happiness in wedded life, and on the +14th of April, 1898, George L. Herr and Miss Lillie M.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> +Joyce, the woman who was such an essential portion +of his existence, were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony +by the Rev. Carter Helm Jones, D.D., pastor +of the Broadway Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The meek will he teach his way.—Ps. 25:9.</p> + +<p>Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy +Holy Spirit from me.—Ps. 51:11.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 380px;"> +<img src="images/ill-031.jpg" width="380" height="400" alt="Rev. STEVE P. HOLCOMBE" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. STEVE P. HOLCOMBE</span><br /> +The founder of the Holcombe Mission +of Louisville, Ky.</p> +</div> + +<p>George Herr says that the old life, with its bondage +in sin and its darkness of evil, is a thing of the eliminated +past. Finding happiness in his new life, he +has consecrated his time, energy, ability and talents +to continuous devotion to the task of spreading the +gospel among the fallen. Into the gloomiest recesses +of penitentiaries, workhouses and jails, beyond portals +where visitors are excluded, he has carried the +message of Christ's saving grace into the darkness of +despairing men's and women's lives.</p> + +<p>God has blessed George L. Herr in many ways, giving +him daily recompense for the days of misery, +shame and degradation, giving him a happy home, +<ins title="Original had glorifield.">glorified</ins> by the presence of a loving, devoted wife +and the precious daughter, and this story is sent forth +with the earnest prayer that God may use it, with its +message of hope and cheer, for the salvation of many +despairing, discouraged ones who are bound by the +awful fetters of sin as he once was.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and +him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.—John +6:37.</p> +</div> + +<p>One of the greatest privileges accorded man is to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +be a messenger for Christ. George Herr has tasted +the sweets of liberty in Christ and he loves to tell +those in the terrible bondage of sin that there is an +avenue of escape. In his rescue work he has been able +to take a great number of homeless, friendless and +hopeless men and women by the hand.</p> + +<p>Does it pay? The results of George Herr's labors +among the unfortunates are a satisfactory answer to +this question. It pays a hundredfold in the feeling of +duty well done, in the knowledge of many useful lives +saved. It pays in words of gratitude feelingly uttered +by noble men and women, who, formerly sunk in the +quicksands of despair, are now restored to a world +of happiness and peace.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Jesus own words are: "They that be whole need not a +physician, but they that are sick, for I am not come to call +the righteous, but sinners to repentance."—Matt. 9:12, 13.</p> +</div> + +<p>It is our earnest prayer to the Father of all good, +that this story of George Herr's redemption from the +clutches of sin may, through his unfailing love for +all suffering ones, carry its message of hope, its promise +of salvation from eternal despair, into the hearts +of many who are despondent, discouraged, despairing. +May it instill into the hearts of the unfortunate a +desire to come back into the fold of the Father's unending +love, bringing with it the sweet conviction that +no matter how far we have wandered from within the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +radius of his love, we are still his children, the erring +ones for whose redemption he gave his Son to +be offered upon the altar of human sacrifice that we, +through the atonement of his innocent blood, should +inherit the kingdom of heaven.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Hold up my goings in thy path, that my footsteps slip +not.—Ps. 17:6.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-035.jpg" width="400" height="543" alt="The Late Mr. GEORGE GAULBERT" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Mr. GEORGE GAULBERT</span><br /> + +One of my best friends. Many heart-to-heart +talks I have had with this grand +and wealthy merchant</p> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_TWO" id="CHAPTER_TWO"></a>CHAPTER TWO</h2> + +<p class="chp">"LOST AND IS FOUND"</p> + + +<p>Jesus said, "A man had two sons; and the younger +one of them said to his father, 'Father, give me my +share of the inheritance!' so the father divided the +property between them. A few days later the younger +son got together all that he had and went away into +a distant land; and there he squandered his inheritance +by leading a dissolute life. After he had spent +all that he had, there was a severe famine through all +that country, and he began to be in actual want. So +he went and engaged himself to one of the people of +that country, who sent him into his field to tend pigs. +He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean +pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave +him anything. But when he came to himself he said, +'How many of my father's hired servants have more +bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to +death; I will get up and go to my father and say to +him, 'Father, I have sinned against Heaven and +against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +make me as one of your hired servants.' And he got +up and went to his father. But while he was still a +long way off, his father saw him and was deeply +moved; he ran and threw his arms around his neck +and kissed him. 'Father,' the son said, 'I sinned +against Heaven and against you; I am no longer fit +to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.' +But the father turned to his servants and +said, 'Be quick and bring a robe, the very best, and +put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals +for his feet; and bring the fatted calf and kill +it, and let us eat and make merry; for here is my son +who was dead, and is alive again, was lost and is +found."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and +the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name +shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, +The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.—Isa. 9:6.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-039.jpg" width="400" height="557" alt="Rev. CARTER HELM JONES, D.D." title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. CARTER HELM JONES, d.d.</span><br /> +The late Pastor Broadway Baptist Church +Louisville, Ky.</p> +</div> + +<p>This younger son thought he was wiser than his +father and wanted to manage his own affairs. So it +is with men who think they can manage their own +affairs without God.</p> + +<div class="verses"><p>He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee +in all thy ways.—Ps. 91:11.</p> +</div> + +<p>A case in hand: An acquaintance of mine in Louisville, +a young man of handsome face and fine physique, +with all the advantages wealth, education and +social position could give him, started out at the age +of twenty-one with unfaltering prospects of a prosperous, +useful and happy life, but, like the young man +in our lesson, thought he could manage his own affairs<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +without God; in other words, he refused to give his +heart and life to Jesus Christ, and not having Christ +to protect, shield, restrain, and assist him, in a time +of temptation he was led along little by little, almost +without knowing it, until he was ready to commit any +crime. One day in a house of ill repute he shot and +killed a young man; for this crime he was arrested, +tried and convicted, but the wealth and influence of +his family secured him a pardon. Even this bitter +experience failed to teach him that he had made a +mistake in thinking he could manage his own affairs, +for, after regaining his liberty, he plunged deeper +and deeper into sin, ending in himself being murdered.</p> + +<p>As the prodigal in the parable wanted to get as far +from his father's presence as possible, "into a far +country," so the man when he determines to give himself +up to others. He does not want to hear about +God or even think about him. Reader, was not this +so with you? The father did not compel the son to +stay at home; he allowed him to choose what he preferred. +So it is with God; he does not compel us to +obedience. For my part I wish he did. "He wasted +his substance in riotous living;" and so it is with the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +sinner, in the service of sin; he wastes and destroys +his property, his health, his reputation, his intellect, +his conscience.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Fear not; for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee +by thy name; thou art mine.—Is. 43:1.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-043.jpg" width="400" height="527" alt="The Late Rev. E. A. FERGUSON" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Rev. E. A. FERGUSON</span><br /> +One of the Author's best friends</p> +</div> + +<p>There is nothing in this world valuable enough to +recompense such a loss, or balance the misery of a +tormenting conscience. If you violate it for the sake +of a gratification of the body it will remember the injury +many years after. Gen. 42:21; Job 13:26. It +will not only retain the memory of what you did, but +it will accuse you for it. Matt. 27:4. It will not fear +to tell you that plainly, which others dare not whisper. +It will not only accuse, but it will also condemn you +for what you have done. This condemning voice of +conscience is a terrible voice. You may see the horror +of it in Cain, the vigor of it in Judas, the doleful effects +of it in Saphira. It will produce shame, fear, and +despair, if God give not repentance to life. The shame +it works will so confound you, that you will not be +able to look up. Job. 31:14; Psa. 1:5. The fear it +works will make you wish for a hole in the rock to +hide you. Isa. 2:9, 10, 15, 19. And its despair is a +death pang.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; +though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as +snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as +wool."—Is. 1:18.</p> +</div> + +<p>Young man, consider the nature of your present<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +actions; they are seeds sown for eternity, and will +spring up again in suitable effects, rewards and punishments, +when you that did them are turned to dust. +What a man sows, that shall he reap. Gal. 6:7. And +as sure as the harvest follows the seedtime, so shall +shame, fear, and horror follow sin. Dan. 12:2. What +Zeuxis, the famous painter, said of his work, may +much more truly be said of ours: "I paint for eternity." +Ah! how bitter will these things be in the day +of reckoning, which were pleasant in the acting! It +is true our actions, physically considered, are transient. +How soon is a word or action spoken or done, +and there is an end of it! But morally considered, +they are permanent, being entered upon God's book +of action.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, +and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed +thee.—Isa. 44:22.</p> +</div> + +<p>Let me illustrate: Some time ago a young man, +son of a nobleman of Germany, came to our home +poorly clad, without money, without friends, realizing +to some extent the depth to which he had fallen, +filled with remorse on account of disgrace he had +brought upon himself and his family, and like the +prodigal in the parable he said, "I will arise and go +to my father." He left our home for his home in New<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +Orleans, La. After his arrival there we received the +following letter:</p> + +<p>My Dear Brother Herr: My letter to you from San +Antonio told of the happiness which had come to me +as a result of the reunion of my wife and little ones. +Can you realize how full those days were spent in the +sweet companionship of those who are so dear to me? +I would have wished to have remained with them until +Christmas, but my obligations to business intervened, +and I was compelled to leave in order to attend to +matters here.</p> + +<p>My thoughts are with you so much that I often feel +as though I could reach out and grasp your hand; +and so often during the day there goes up a whispered +prayer from my heart that our Father will bless you +in just proportion as you have been a sweet, helpful +blessing to others.</p> + +<p>My route includes Louisville, and while I may not +be in there on this trip, it will not be many days before +I will have an opportunity to greet you in person. +May God bless Sister Herr and yourself if only +in recompense for your kindness to me.</p> + +<p class="citation"> +<span class="smcap">Edward.</span> +</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; +for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help +thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my +righteousness.—Isa. 44:10.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></p> + +<p>Does not the life of this man preach a more eloquent +sermon, and tell a more powerful tale, and +teach a more eloquent lesson than I or any other +preacher could do? Reader, you cannot ignore, disregard, +or shut your eyes to the lesson which this +man's life teaches, impresses and enforces of the +awful danger and the deadly and destructive effects +of sin.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your +doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil.—Isa. 1:16.</p> +</div> + +<p>Here is a lesson in life that appeals to us and bids +us stop in our mad way. This parable of the prodigal +son shows that we can have our own way if we determine +to do it; father and mother can't keep us from +it, and God by force will not keep us from it; but we +will certainly pay for it, and pay the price of tears +and sorrow, remorse and ruin. This nobleman's son, +by refusing to heed God's warning, was brought to +want. No matter whose son it is, if he determines to +have his own way and give himself up to self-indulgence +and riotous living, he will come to want, shame, +bitterness, and many are the men who tried to master +themselves but failed. Some evil habit had fastened itself +upon him, and realizing himself a slave, tries to +shake it off, but, alas! the will has been paralyzed, and +it does not respond in warding off the fearful habit.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +Defeat after defeat occurs until the poor fellow, discouraged, +broken-hearted, gives up and goes down to +utter ruin. Man is no match for the devil. How hopeless +would be the outlook for the great army of men +whom we labor with were it not for a Deliverer. "The +cross held his body; the sun hid his face for shame, +and the bowels of the earth were moved in compassion, +when Jesus expired on Calvary's rugged tree, +thus purchasing redemption for every man from the +curse of sin. It is possible through Christ for every +man to be a Christian."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."—John +6:37. What a wonderful invitation—these words of +the Savior!</p> +</div> + +<p>And now here are some of the ways God has taken +to tell you of his love: Psalm 103:13: "Like as a +father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them +that fear him." Isaiah 49:15: "Can a woman forget +her suckling child, that she should not have compassion +on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, +yet I will not forget thee." Luke 11:13: "If ye +then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto +your children, how much more shall your heavenly +Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" +Luke 18:13-14: "And the publican, standing afar +off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, +but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +to me a sinner. I tell you this man went down to his +house justified rather than the other: for every one +that exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that +humbleth himself shall be exalted." Luke 15:7: +"I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven +over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety +and nine just persons, which need no repentance." +Luke 15:10: "Likewise I say unto you, there is joy +in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner +that repenteth." Luke 7:36-50: "And one of the +Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. +And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down +to meat. And behold a woman in the city, which was +a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the +Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, +and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and +began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them +with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and +anointed them with the ointment.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own +works praise her in the gates.—Prov. 31:31.</p> +</div> + +<p>"Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him +saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if +he were a prophet, would have known who and what +manner of woman this is that toucheth him; for she is +a sinner. And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, +Master, say on. There was a certain creditor which +had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, +and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to +pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me, therefore, +which of them will love him most? Simon answered +and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave +most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly +judged. And he turned to the woman, and said unto +Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine +house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she +hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with +the hairs of her head. Thou gavest me no kiss: but +this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased +to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not +anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with +ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins, which +are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to +whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little. And +he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, +saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.—Matt. 8:2.</p> +</div> + +<p>"And they that sat at meat with him began to say +within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins +also? And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath +saved thee; go in peace."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + +<p>A father whose son had gone away to California, +and was a gambler in San Francisco, sent him word +by a friend: "Your father loves you still." And it +made him ashamed; it broke his heart; he repented, +returned home and was saved. "God, your heavenly +Father, loves you still." Will you not believe it and +come to him for safety? He will not abuse you for +your sins. He will save you from your sins, and make +you happy.</p> + +<p>"And he began to be in want."</p> + +<p>That is what sin brings a man to—want.</p> + +<p>And it was this which brought him to his senses—"he +came to himself" (verse 17).</p> + +<p>And when he does come to himself he can think of +only one place where he can hope to find relief, and he +bravely determines to go straight to the very father he +had so shamefully abandoned, and to make a full confession +and throw himself on that father's mercy +with the hope of being taken back as a hired servant. +He is willing to take the humblest and meanest place +if he can only get back to that home he was, a short +time before, so eager to leave. Nor does he offer any +excuse; he calls his sin by the right name and confesses +it without trying to excuse it or justify it.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, +I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was +cleansed.—Matt. 8:3.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<p>And how did his father receive him? Why, he did +not wait till his poor, ragged, worn and wasted boy +got in and made his confession; but he saw him a +great way off (verse 20) and he knew what had passed +in the boy's heart and life, and moved with compassion +toward him, he ran and fell on his neck and +kissed him a glad welcome back to his heart and home. +But the son goes on to make his confession and his +offer to be a hired servant anyhow, and yet the father +says, "No! no! bring forth the best robe and put it +on him."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"And their works do follow them."—Rev. 14:13.</p> +</div> + +<p>A man married a young widow with a small son. +Her former husband had left her $10,000 in his will. +The man said: "I will take care of you and we will +lay away that $10,000 for your boy." Two other sons +were born to them. The stepson was educated and +taught habits of business. At twenty-one years of +age he asked for the money his father had left. He +was told that instead of being $10,000, it had been invested +for him and was now $50,000. He was asked +to let the money stay in the business and to become +a partner with his stepfather. The young man refused, +took his $50,000, fell into bad habits and lost +it all and came home in rags, a tramp. His stepfather +met him at the train, took him to the barbershop and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +clothier and presented him to his mother at the house +as a gentleman. The nicest room in the house was +assigned him and he was told that it was his permanent +home. He was also told by his stepfather that +he was to be taken into the business firm composed +of the father and the two half-brothers. This was +more than he could stand. He began to weep at his +ingratitude and at the love which had been lavished +upon him. He devoted himself to business, was +devoted to his stepfather, and was as loyal to his interests +as his own sons. This picture, though it seems +overdrawn, is one of real life. The stepfather +had a good disposition naturally, but his magnanimous +treatment of the prodigal was out of his sincere +affection for his wife. There were few ties of +love that bound him to the bad boy, only the love of +his faithful wife. He loved the boy for the sake of +his mother. Our Father loves his children and receives +the prodigals returning to him for their own +sake and the sake of his Son who died for them, and +treats them, in his affection, as though they had never +sinned against him.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil +and the good.—Prov, 15:3.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-055.jpg" width="400" height="507" alt="Dr. E. L. POWELL" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Dr. E. L. POWELL</span><br /> +Pastor First Christian Church, Louisville. One of +the ablest ministers of the Christian Church who +has done a wonderful work among the masses.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_THREE" id="CHAPTER_THREE"></a>CHAPTER THREE</h2> + +<p class="chp">POLITICAL PERIL</p> + +<p class="center">Sermon by Dr. E. L. Powell, on "The Need of Prophets in a<br /> +Time of Political Peril," delivered at the First<br /> +Christian Church, Louisville, Ky.</p> + +<blockquote><p>"And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will +forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) shall know that +there hath been a prophet among them."—Ezekiel 2:5.</p> +</blockquote> + + +<p>He thought it would not be questioned by thinking +persons that we are living in a time of political peril. +He did not mean that revolution was at our door; he +did not mean that we are threatened with a reign of +terror; he did not mean that there was any prospect +of immediate bloodshed.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: +lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.</p> + +<p>I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I +have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have +not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the +great congregation.—Psalm 40:9, 10.</p> +</div> + +<p>Our perils spring from our state—the state of our +own souls. They are lacking in moral sensibility—we +are in danger. We are told on every hand our +country was never more prosperous—that is unquestionably +so. The same might be said of Rome when<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +that colossal empire was tottering to its fall. There +were persons then who paid from $200,000 to $400,000 +for a single feast. It is recorded of one man that, +after spending several millions of dollars in luxurious +living, he committed suicide because he had only +$400,000 between him and starvation. National bankruptcy +does not stare us in the face. Fortunes grow +up in a generation—the dollar smiles upon us as a +beneficent sun. Yet our moral condition is such as +to call forth from thinking men serious and earnest +fear. We are as a man living in a luxuriously appointed +house, and yet, on account of invalidism, +unable to appreciate his splendid home and environments.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of +these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.</p> +</div> + +<p>He had called the attention of the congregation last +Sunday night to what was the fundamental source +of our political corruption—the unnatural separation +of religion and politics. He did not mean separation +of Church and State; that was right and proper; but +he did mean that we need the reign of truth, purity +and righteousness, because of the ills to which attention +was called last Sunday night. His lecture tonight +would be on "The Need of Prophets in a Time of Political +Peril." He did not wish to call attention to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> +the peculiarly inspired Bible prophet. So far as he +was concerned he was a man apart, who could not be +our example—he constituted an order of his own; but +we mortals can to some extent, recognizing our limitations, +reproduce the power of the prophets, and it +is not limited by arbitrary metes and bounds, as God +sends his teachers to every age and every clime. If +there ever was a time when we stood in need of moral +leadership it is now. We want men who come like the +prophets of old, who shall come before us as genuine +leaders to take us out of this wilderness in which we +find ourselves. A fine moral leadership is the exception +rather than the rule. Unless the standard be +lifted up the hosts will not rally. Truth will not win +its way on its own merits. Let the call come from the +lips that speak not lies, but the truth, and there is +that in the humblest of men that will give back an +amen. And when our leaders come we shall recognize +them. We are not likely to mistake the rumble of +cart-wheels for thunder. The leader carries his credentials. +When a community is visited by a prophet +it is known by that community that a prophet has +been among them. You do not mistake genuine fire.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +You are never deceived by a genuine voice. It has +been true in all ages of the world that wisdom is recognized +by its people. Deep down in the hearts of +the people are the instincts of truth. When we find +men willing to pay the price of leadership we shall +have leaders. It is as true today as it was in the days +of prophecy that such leaders as we have have taught +us to err. We need men with political consciences—men +who recognize that there are such things as truth, +purity and righteousness in the world.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>What must I do to be saved?—Acts 16:30.</p> + +<p>Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be +saved.—Acts 16:31.</p> +</div> + +<p>In speaking of moral leadership the all-inclusive +qualification is inspiration. He did not mean the exceptional +inspiration that applies to the Bible prophets. +He meant that inspiration which kindles the +powers we already have into life. When he spoke of +inspiration he meant the enlivening, the stirring up +of the powers we already have as opposed to the shallow +indifference of one who draws about him the +robes of his silken selfishness and says, "Let well +enough alone"—a man whose inspiration glows and +glows intensely. The inspired man feels the degradation +of his country as a personal infliction. Those who<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +dishonor her are his own foes, and insults flung in the +face of political liberty are felt by him as an affront +to himself. Our prophets must be men who feel the +woes that they oppose, men who feel the humiliation +before they can strike with the right arm clothed with +power. Indifference to the public weal on the part of +the average political leader is one of the most distressing +features of our political situation. These people +do not seem capable of feeling righteous indignation +in the presence of the moral infamy by which +they are confronted, and hence their words do not +come forth as thunderbolts, but as spent balls. Beware +of the man whose heart has not been pierced by +the woes of his country. The sting is the needed spur +to effort. The sleeping lion is not dangerous; but let +him be wounded and his roar shall ring as the trumpet +of doom in the ears of his enemies. We must seek +our leaders among those who can feel the woes of +humanity—men of profound feeling—as those are the +best prophets.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed +from the hand of the enemy;</p> + +<p>And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and +from the west, from the north and from the south.—Psalm +107:2, 3.</p> +</div> + +<p>He believed that we must strike at the evil of social +indifferentism. Who does not feel profound +shame that the law against carrying concealed and +deadly weapons is not strictly enforced, which made<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +possible tragedies such as that at Frankfort, which has +disgraced the fair name and fame of our State. The +leaders' voices should ring throughout our land until +we are bowed to the earth in shame in view of the infamies +which disgrace us.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Lord, save us; we perish.—Matt. 8:25.</p> + +<p>There shall not a hair of your head perish.—Lu. 21:18.</p> +</div> + +<p>Another element required for leadership was the +power of vision. There must be a clear recognition of +evils. The idealist is not a mere dreamer, but acquainted +with the actual wants of the people. In +fact our leaders must see something better. The man +who is working in the slums must keep his eyes fixed +on the stars. There can be no change for the better +until the better is made to shine with the brightness +of a beckoning angel.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within +my heart.</p> + +<p>I am a companion of them that keep thy precepts.—Psalm +119:63.</p> +</div> + +<p>Here is the opportunity and duty of newspapers. +James Russell Lowell says: "What a pulpit the editor +mounts daily, sometimes with a congregation of fifty +thousand within reach of his voice, and never so much +as a nodder, even, among them! and from what a Bible +can he choose his text—a Bible that needs no translation, +and which no priestcraft can shut and clasp +from the laity—the open volume of the world, upon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +which with a pen of sunshine or destroying fire the +inspired Present is even now writing the annals of +God!"</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<p class="caption">PROMINENT IN THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LOUISVILLE</p> +<img src="images/ill-063a.jpg" width="500" height="286" alt="PROMINENT IN THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF LOUISVILLE" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill-063b.jpg" width="500" height="339" alt="PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY" title="" /> +<p class="caption">PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY</p> +</div> + +<p>But has the editor no mission other than to tell us +of partisan political measures? To be a simple annalist +who shall bring before us the events of the day, +but who creates no perspective along which we may +tread to better customs, better men and better times? +He never leaves us in doubt—"Let us do the best we +can, and leave the rest alone." In God's name, is +there not something better? "Let us go up and possess +the land." Standing on the mountain height up +there we shall all see fairer lands below. The inspired +editor not only sees the battle from afar, but also the +coming of the imperial guard of righteousness with +victory. There is that in the heart of every man that +responds to the ideal. No leader has ever succeeded +in having an evil reformed who wanted an ideal. Napoleon, +when he said, "Beyond the Alps lies Italy," +was appealing to that sentiment—to something beyond—to +something in the future. When Cortez drew +an imaginary line before his men, who had become +mutinous, and said "On this side lies danger, death, +duty and glory; on that, safety, shame and infamy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +Choose ye whether you will step this side of the line +or remain where you are," he was appealing to something +in their hearts—put there by the Almighty himself. +Editors should not think it their only mission +to mirror forth things as they occur, but say to their +50,000 readers, "Let us go up and possess the land" +of truth, purity and righteousness. This is not weakness +on their part but evidence of the profoundest +philosophy. Fifty years ago we had senatorial utterances +that would reach across the continent. The +secret power of those utterances was that they were +ideal. In the days when boys spoke pieces in school +we declaimed them, and we feel their influence today.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.</p> + +<p>When wilt thou comfort me?—Ps. 119:82.</p> + +<p>Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is +the fulfilling of the law.—Rom. 13:10.</p> +</div> + +<p>Another element of leadership is moral enthusiasm. +The idealist in art is so for the love of art. He enters +into the discussion of art subjects with enthusiasm. +So with the moral enthusiast. Sin is hateful to him, +and he seeks to crush it as he would a viper, and instinctively +and spontaneously his denunciations come +forth. Truth is his pole-star, and he will tell his best +friend, "I will do anything but lie for you." Try +to bribe him, and you will think that the central fires +of the earth have been concentrated into his blistering<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +rebuke. Suggest a compromise involving dishonor, +and if you escape a blow you will be fortunate. +Like Luther he says: "Here I stand. I can do no +other. God help me." He would not go with the +crowd to moral destruction. Moral enthusiasm has +been the virtue of all epoch-making men. Men do not +die for fancies; they do not die for offices. They die +for what they believe is right. Give them something +that appeals to their moral nature and they will die +for it. The grand martyrs were men who laid down +their lives for what they believed to be right. There +came to them those lines of James Russell Lowell:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Once to every man and Nation<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Comes the moment to decide,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In the strife of truth and falsehood<br /></span> +<span class="i1">For the good or evil side;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Love's great cause, God's new Messiah,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Offering each the bloom or blight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Parts the goats upon the left hand<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And the sheep upon the right,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the choice goes by forever<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Twixt the darkness and the light."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort +you.—Is. 66:13.</p> + +<p>He who loveth God loveth his brother also.—1 John +4:21.</p> +</div> + +<p>We must have leaders who possess the elements of +leadership for the great task of making the world<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +better—who possess the elementary virtues of honesty +and truth. He had indicated some of the elements of +moral leadership that these times demand. He did +not mean to say that the political stage had not such +leaders. Certainly there were a few; but we can make +it possible to have a thousand. When we can see one +we are surprised. In the past, thank God, we have +had such leaders, and in the future we shall have such +leaders again.</p> + +<p>It is slumbering in the hearts of men and women all +around us. It needs only some one to sweep the harp +strings. The trouble is with ourselves. How can we +be leaders with sensual and selfish appetites and desires? +Does God no longer speak to man? Burns +there no fire upon the altar? He did not believe God +had exhausted himself. God had not exhausted himself +by casting out a few bright stars from his own +luminous presence. There is power for him to bring +to the front the men we are longing and praying for.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea in seven there +shall no evil touch thee.—Job 5:19.</p> +</div> + +<p>In conclusion, he wished to say only these few words—that +every leader is a man that must bring to us the +message of hope. The prophets through all those +weary years carried the torch of hope and handed it +to their successors. Abraham believed with all his +soul that he should have a posterity as numerous as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +the stars. He died leaving only one heir. Moses, the +great law-giver, had a vision that a community of +slaves should be made into a great nation. He went +up into Pisgah and died, leaving them still slaves. +Long ago a prophet looked over the sea at a vision +of a new heaven and a new earth. Two thousand +years have passed away and no new heaven or new +earth has come—but as sure as truth is stronger than +falsehood it will come—just so sure we shall one day +see a new heaven and a new earth, where dwelleth no +political corruption, but righteousness. Not in our +time, perhaps, not in our children's time, shall the +thing be; but it will come. Let us pray, then, that we +may answer in the language of the great poet.</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:20em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Oh, well I know that to him who works, and knows he works,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This same glad year is ever at the door."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:</p> +<p>The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:</p> +<p>The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.</p> +</div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_FOUR" id="CHAPTER_FOUR"></a>CHAPTER FOUR</h2> + +<p class="chp">CHRIST THE INTERPRETER<br /> +<span style="font-size: .7em;">OF THE PICTURE</span></p> + +<p class="center">A Sermon preached by Rev. T. M. Hawes in the Slums</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"I have somewhat to say unto thee."—Luke 7:40.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The scene presented in this narration is worthy of +the painter's brush. We have a beautiful and striking +presentation of the gospel—not set forth in theological +terms as abstract truth—but presented in the +form of a concrete example—a picture with Christ +himself as the interpreter.</p> + +<p>And now as we look at this picture with Christ to +explain and interpret it to us, let us see what he will +teach us concerning the gospel.</p> + +<p>First, we can learn here for whom the gospel is +not intended.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one +another.—1 John 4:11.</p> +</div> + +<p>Evidently it is not intended for those who find fault +with it. Christ is among a people who seem determined +not to be pleased. He has just wondered to +whom he could liken them, and observing a number of +children at play he likens them to children playing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +in the market place. "We have piped unto you and +ye have not danced; we have mourned to you and ye +have not wept." They found fault with John the Baptist +because he was too severe—they found fault with +Jesus because he was too liberal. And here Simon +is finding fault with him because he is allowing this +sinful woman to wash his feet. Am I saying too +much when I say that there is that same trait in human +nature today, and that it keeps people out of the +kingdom? Yea, more than that, it often keeps those +who are in the kingdom from receiving the blessings +which otherwise might be theirs. There are those on +the outside who remain out because they are constantly +finding fault. There are those on the inside +who are always unhappy for the same reason. If the +preacher hews to the line they say he is a scold—if he +doesn't they say he is afraid to stand up for what he +believes, and so it goes.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill-071.jpg" width="300" height="497" alt="Rev. T. M. HAWES, D.D." title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. T. M. HAWES, d.d.</span><br /> + +The beloved pastor of the Highland +Presbyterian Church. The "Beloved +John" of the Louisville ministry.</p> +</div> + +<p>Let us learn from this picture that the gospel is +not for faultfinders. Our late Mr. Moody says a true +thing when he says that a faultfinder is usually a +lightweight.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner +over me was love.—S. of S. 2:4.</p> +</div> + +<p>Again we can learn from this picture that the gospel +is not intended for those who do not think they<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +need it; not intended for self-righteous people. No +one is ever going to appreciate the gospel until he +feels the need of it. The spirit of the Pharisee will +shut us out from the blessings of the gospel whether +we are church members or not. Simon looked down +on the sinful woman and felt that he was far superior +to her. Evidently he felt no need of a Saviour. The +Scribes and Pharisees rejected Christ on the very +grounds that he was the friend of publicans and sinners. +Oh, yes, in the very nature of the case the gospel +cannot reach those who do not feel their need of +some power beyond themselves.</p> + +<p>Furthermore, the gospel is not meant for those who +are ashamed of it. There is something very touching +and beautiful in this picture of the woman who was a +sinner coming into this public court to do honor to +Christ. She had true humility. Simon was far from +doing anything of this kind, he was willing to show a +certain sort of respect for Christ, but he would have +been too proud to have ever done such a thing as this.</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:20em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Ashamed of Jesus, sooner far<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let evening blush to own a star."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Is it not true that a sense of being ashamed of the +gospel shuts out from its blessings those who entertain +such unworthy feelings?</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart.—Mk. +12:30.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>Finally, let us learn from this picture that the gospel +is not meant for those who are not glad to make +a free-will offering of sacrifice as a token of this grateful +love. This woman brought an alabaster box of +ointment.</p> + +<p>"My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but this +woman hath anointed my feet with ointment." +Christ did not exact this of her—it was a free-will offering. +If the gospel does not draw out our gratitude +and liberality, then it has never touched us. It is not +because of our gifts that we are forgiven, but it is +because of our forgiveness that we give. "To whom +little is forgiven, the same loveth little."</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:20em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"That man may last but never lives,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who much receives but nothing gives;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whom none can love, whom none can thank,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Creation's blot, creation's blank.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"But he who walks from day to day<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In generous acts his radiant way,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Treads the same path his Saviour trod—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The path to glory and to God."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Now, having learned from this picture for whom +the gospel is not intended, let us learn for whom it is +intended. Ah! how with a few bold and simple +strokes the whole matter is made plain.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.—Mark 11:31.</p> +</div> + +<p>First, I notice that it is meant for sinners. "Behold<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> +a woman in the city which was a sinner." Jesus +"a friend of publicans and sinners." That tells the +story. "I came to call not the righteous, but sinners." +Some people find fault with the church because there +are so many sinners in the church. Just as well find +fault with a hospital for having sick people in it. Just +as well find fault with the doctor for visiting invalids. +"Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee; you are +finding fault with me for allowing this sinful woman +to touch me. Let me tell you, Simon, that it is just +for this very purpose that I am come into this world." +"This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, +that Christ came into the world to save sinners." +He was the great Physician and great physicians are +those who have a specialty. This was Christ's specialty—to +save sinners. Who is this that forgiveth +sins, also?</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The end of the commandment is love out of a pure +heart.—1 Tim. 1:5.</p> +</div> + +<p>Secondly, I learn from our Saviour's interpretation +of this picture that the gospel is for the very +greatest of sinners. "Simon, I have somewhat to say +unto thee. There was a certain creditor who had +two debtors," etc. Our Saviour proceeds with an illustration +which shows that this woman was one of +the greatest of sinners. She was ten times worse than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> +the average sinner, and yet she was more welcome to +the Saviour than this proud, self-righteous Pharisee. +Oh, men and women! if you are in this hall, feeling +that you are unworthy to be here, your very unfitness +makes you fit. Draw nigh to this Saviour from sin +and hear him say, "Thy sins are forgiven; go in +peace." Let no pharisaical Simon frighten you away—the +Saviour will give him the rebuke which he deserves +and will whisper into your ear words of pardon +and of peace.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods +drown it.—S. of S. 8:7.</p> +</div> + +<p>I learn from this picture which Christ interprets +that the gospel is for penitent sinners. "Simon, I +have somewhat to say unto thee; seest thou this woman? +She hath washed my feet with her tears." +Oh, those were precious tears in the sight of our Saviour. +Every tear-drop was a jewel. The breaking of +the alabaster box of ointment was a sweet incense to +Jesus, but this ten-fold sinner bathing his very feet +with her penitential tears was a sight which made the +angels in heaven rejoice, "for there is more joy in +heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over +ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance." +Simon despised this woman's tears and sat unmoved +at the pathetic scene—but not so with Jesus. He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> +could refrain himself no longer, but speaking out before +all the company he said, "Thy sins are forgiven." +Oh, gracious words! How sweet and soft must have +been this music to the ears of this sinful outcast.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"They fall as soft as snow on the sea<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And melt in the heart as instantly."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Finally, I learn from this picture which Christ is +interpreting for us that the gospel is for sinners who +commit themselves in implicit faith to Christ. "Simon, +I have somewhat to say unto thee." "Behold +this woman; you have done a great deal of talking—this +poor woman has not spoken a word—but behold +how she has thrown herself upon my mercy with unquestioning +confidence! Do you think I will disappoint +such trust as that? She has heard me say, 'Him +that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out' and +has taken me at my word, and I consider it an honor +to turn from thy company to the company of this +sinful woman."</p> + +<p>And he said to the woman, "Thy faith hath saved +thee; go in peace."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Without faith it is impossible to please God.—Hebrews +11:6.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-079.jpg" width="400" height="513" alt="Rev. HENRY CLAY MORRISON, D.D." title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. HENRY CLAY MORRISON, d.d.</span><br /> +A Giant Against Unrighteousness</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_FIVE" id="CHAPTER_FIVE"></a>CHAPTER FIVE</h2> + +<p class="chp">THROWING OUT THE LIFE-LINE</p> + +<p class="center">By Rev. H. C. Morrison, D.D.</p> + + +<p>"Ye are the salt of the earth," "Ye are the light +of the world," "Let your light so shine before men +that they may see your good works, and glorify your +Father which art in heaven."—Matt. 5:13, 14, 15.</p> + +<p>These sayings of Jesus from the sermon on the +mount are quite remarkable. No other teacher ever +used such words to his disciples, "Ye are the light of +the world." Had the Jewish doctor of the law heard +these words of our Lord to his humble sun-tanned, +bare-footed, shaggy-browed fishermen, he would have +been quite disgusted with what to him would have +seemed the consummate egotism of the Nazarene.</p> + +<p>The meaning of the words of Christ is very plain. +The disciples, their lives, character, spirit, the power +of the Christ in them must, and would, permeate society +like salt, and purify and save from sin. They +must illuminate the world, so dark with vice, and +show it the way back to God.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with +God.—Rom. 5:1.</p> +</div> + +<p>These words of Jesus to the disciples who sat before<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +him that day, are addressed by him to all of his followers +for all time, to all of those who trust him and +gladly obey him (and only such are disciples). He +says, "Ye are the salt of the earth," "Ye are the light +of the world." "Let your light so shine before men, +that they may see your good works, and glorify your +Father which is in heaven."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I have somewhat to say unto thee.—Luke 7:40.</p> +</div> + +<p>We must not forget that God's plan is to save the +lost, through the instrumentality of those who were +themselves once lost, but are now saved from sin. If +we would have a great testimony meeting in the city +of the skies, and all of the countless hosts there should +one by one stand up to tell how they were brought +from sin to Jesus, each one of them would point out +some person who had been the chief instrument in +his or her salvation. There is this one characteristic +of all who are truly saved—they desire the salvation +of all souls. In fact, this is a very good thermometer +with which to get the correct temperature of one's +spiritual life. Does he long for the salvation of the +lost? If so, in the nature of things he must be in a +state of salvation. Is he indifferent to the condition +of the lost? Then he is himself in a lost state. Let +us here impress the important truth that Jesus did +not say to his disciples, "Ye must try and salt the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +earth," but said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." He +did not say, "Ye shall kindle a flame that shall illuminate +the world." He said, "Ye are the light of the +world." We are not, as the disciples of Christ, to be +makers of light and salt, but we, by the power of +Christ, must be made into salt and light. It will be +interesting to notice the processes through which one +must pass in order to become salt and light. Let us +go back to the beginning of this sermon of our Lord +and we will hear him saying, "Blessed are the poor +in spirit." First of all to become salt and light one +must be poor in spirit; he must awake to the fact that +he owes a million and has not one cent with which +to pay. From his heart he must say,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Nothing in my hands I bring,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Simply to thy cross I cling."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right +spirit within me.—Psalms 51:10</p> +</div> + +<p>He must realize in his inmost soul his perilous condition, +and pray from the fullness of a deep conviction +in his heart, "Lord save, or I perish." Not only +must he be poor in spirit, but our Lord says, "Blessed +are they that mourn." God loves to see the falling +tears of sorrow for sin against himself. Those that +truly mourn because of their sins will forsake them. +How blessed for the returning prodigal to come with<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +a heart all full of deep contrition. They that mourn +because of their sins shall be comforted. After deep +poverty of spirit and true mourning for sin and the +comforting of the soul by the pardoning mercy of +God. Then meekness will most certainly follow.</p> + +<p>Now, the soul comforted, born of God, sitting in +meekness at the feet of Jesus, will "hunger and thirst +after righteousness." A dead man has no appetite or +desire for food, but a living one must eat. The soul +that is born of God will at once begin to hunger for +Godlikeness. The cry of such a soul is not so much +for his blessings as it is for him. The Psalmist says, +"As the hart panteth for the water-brooks, so panteth +my soul for Thee, O God." Jesus says of such, +"They shall be filled"—filled with purity, love and +peace; filled with the Holy Ghost; filled with all the +fulness of God. All such will be merciful, pure in +heart, peace-makers, and be sure that persecution will +follow. This world that hated and killed our Lord +will not let his followers pass through without persecutions. +Of this we may be sure.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the +land.—Num. 13:20.</p> +</div> + +<p>But with all these graces and past experiences herein +named the persecuted can rejoice and be exceedingly +glad. And of such Jesus says, "Ye are salt and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +light." Would the reader be salt and light? Then +pass through the program laid down in the sermon +on the mount. One must be so poor in spirit that he +will be such a mourner, that he will receive such comfort, +that he will become so meek, that in him there +will be such hungering and thirsting after righteousness, +that he will be so filled with righteousness, +that he will become so merciful and pure in heart, that +he will be such a peacemaker, that he will be so persecuted, +that he will so rejoice, that he will be salt and +light, so shining that men will see it and glorify our +Father in heaven. It is folly to be striving to do +something before. By the grace of God and his divine +power we are ourselves made something. Make +the tree good and the fruit will be good. If by the +power of the Holy Ghost we are made right it will be +easy for us to do right. Salt salts, and light shines +without effort. So with true disciples of our Christ. +They cannot exist without proving a blessing to those +with whom they come in contact.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Pray for them which despitefully use you.—Luke 6:28.</p> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_SIX" id="CHAPTER_SIX"></a>CHAPTER SIX</h2> + +<p class="chp">REFORMATION OF CRIMINALS</p> + +<p class="center">[Louisville Times]</p> + + +<p>In a sermon delivered in the Nashville penitentiary, +the Rev. George L. Herr, formerly chaplain of the jail +here, spoke encouragingly to the inmates, citing cases +of reformation where reform seemed impossible. The +Rev. Mr. Herr took occasion to pay a high tribute to +Jailer John R. Pflanz, of Louisville. He said in part:</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Repent ye therefore and be converted.—Acts 3:19.</p> +</div> + +<p>When I address you upon this subject I speak from +the standpoint of one who knows by bitter experience. +I know that sin can rob man of fortune, and all the +luxuries of life. I know that it can rob him of the +love of all who ever loved him; I know that it can +drag him down from a position of prominence, and +make him a habitue of the dives; I know that it will +cause him to place a rope around his neck and hang +himself to a rafter in his own barn; I know that sin +will lead him to pause at the railing of a bridge, his +mind set upon the awful deed of self-destruction; I +know that it will tempt him to take a razor in hand +and draw it across his throat. I know that sin will +reduce him from a position of influence, a welcome visitor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +to the homes of the elite, to a degraded drunkard, +homeless upon the streets of his native city, robed in +a short linen duster and a straw hat in the dead of +a bitter winter's night.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-087.jpg" width="400" height="555" alt="Rev. John Paul" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. JOHN PAUL</span><br /> +He gave the title to this book after reading the +manuscript</p> +</div> + + +<p class="sect">River Thief's Reformation.</p> + +<p>Jerry McAuley was a river thief, and, while serving +a term in the penitentiary, caught a glimpse of +what the life beyond with Christ would be, and the +verse, "God so loved the world," etc, (John iii., 16), +won his heart and life, and this poor, weak vessel in +the few years he labored for Christ has planted the +gospel light through some convert at every port where +a ship now lands throughout the world.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Case of Sam Hadley.</p> + +<p>Sam Hadley, who was saved through this man of +God, was a poor friendless drunkard, and at the time +God spoke peace to his soul had committed almost +every crime in the calendar; over one hundred forgeries +looked him in the face when he confessed, but +he had faith in God, and he led him through all the +dark valleys. Sam Hadley, was delivered.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.—Isa, +7:9.</p> +</div> + +<p>I met in the office of the prison every day the jailer,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +and I can safely state, without any fear of contradiction, +that I have never met a warden or jailer who +has such mercy and charity.</p> + + +<p class="sect">A Jail "Miracle."</p> + +<p>I shall speak now of a miracle of the prison cell. +Several years ago the great D. L. Moody was holding +meetings in St. Louis, Mo. The Globe Democrat announced +that it was going to publish Mr. Moody's sermons. +He made up his mind that he would weave in +plenty of Scripture for the newspaper to carry into +places that he could never enter. One night he +preached on the Philippian jailer, and next morning +the paper came out with a sensational headline, "How +the Jailer of Philippi Was Caught." A copy of the +paper was carried into the city jail, and fell into the +hands of a notorious prisoner. This man was one of +the worst characters known to the St. Louis police. +He was about forty years old at that time, and had +spent about twenty years in prison, and was then +awaiting trial on a serious charge. As he glanced +over the morning paper, the headline caught his eyes. +Thinking that it was some jail news he began to read +it.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our +faith,—1 John 5:4.</p> +</div> + +<p>God used it to convict him, and a sense of his responsibility<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +before God rushed upon him. There in +his cell at midnight he prayed for the first time in +his life. On the following Sunday he talked with +Christian friends who held service in the jail, and was +led into the light of the gospel. From that night he +was a changed man. The sheriff thought he was playing +the "pious dodge," and had no confidence in his +professed conversion. But when he came to trial the +case against him was not pressed, and he escaped +through some technicality.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-091.jpg" width="400" height="468" alt="DWIGHT L. MOODY" title="" /> +<p class="caption">DWIGHT L. MOODY<br /> +Who sent the Gospel through the daily press that fell +into the hands of Valentine Burke. He was always +interested in the lost man.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="sect">Unexpected Good Fortune.</p> + +<p>For some months after his release Burke tried to +find work, but no one would take him, knowing his +past history. He thought perhaps it was because of +his ugly face. He went to New York and was taken in +by a member of the police force, who knew him, and +who told him he would shoot him dead if he abused +his confidence.</p> + +<p>Being unsuccessful in New York, he returned to St. +Louis. One day this man who had realized what the +"enemy" had done for his life received a message +from the sheriff that he was wanted at the courthouse. +He obeyed with a heavy heart.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver +thee.—Dan. 16:6.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Some old case they've got against me," he said, +"but if I'm guilty I'll tell them so; I've quit lying." +The sheriff greeted him kindly.</p> + +<p>"Where have you been Burke?"</p> + +<p>"In New York."</p> + +<p>"What have you been doing there?"</p> + +<p>"Trying to find an honest job."</p> + +<p>"Have you kept a good grip on the religion you +told me about?" inquired the sheriff.</p> + +<p>"Yes," answered Burke; "I've had a hard time, +sheriff, but I haven't lost my religion."</p> + +<p>"Burke," said the sheriff, "I have had you shadowed +ever since you left jail. I suspected your religion +was a fraud, but I am convinced that you are +sincere, as you have lived an honest life, and I have +sent for you to offer you a deputyship under me. You +can begin at once."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Yea, he shall be holden up; for God is able to make him +stand.—Rom. 14:4.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="sect">Tribute to Burke's Honesty.</p> + +<p>This was in 1880. When Mr. Moody was preaching +in Chicago in 1890, Burke, who had not been off duty +for the ten years, came to see him. During all that +time there had been many changes in the administration +of the sheriff's office, and they had changed every +deputy but him. Finally they appointed the ex-convict<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> +treasurer of the sheriff's office. Mr. Moody +preached in St. Louis again in 1895. A short time before +his visit an evangelist was called away in the middle +of the revival meetings. The committee wanted +Burke to come and preach in his absence, but the +sheriff said he had just levied on a jeweler's store and +had not had time to take an inventory, and Burke +was the man he could trust to put in charge of it.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill-095a.jpg" width="200" height="245" alt="VALENTINE BURKE" title="" /> +<p class="caption">VALENTINE BURKE<br /> +Fac-simile of photograph taken for +the Rogues' Gallery.</p> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/ill-095b.jpg" width="200" height="254" alt="VALENTINE BURKE" title="" /> +<p class="caption">VALENTINE BURKE<br /> +From a photograph taken in 1887, +seven years after his +conversion</p> +</div> + +<p>He was held in such confidence by the police that +they did a most unusual thing; they gave him a photograph +they had of him in the Rogue's Gallery. He +had his photograph taken again in 1887, and in sending +a copy of this along with the original Rogue's +Gallery photograph, to Mr. T. S. McPheeters of St. +Louis, to show the change in his features, Burke wrote +a note:</p> + +<p>"Notice the difference in the inclosed pictures. See +what our holy religion can do for the chief of sinners." +On the back of the Rogue's Gallery photograph +he wrote:</p> + +<p>"He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth +the needy out of the dunghill, that he may set him +with the princes, even with the princes of his people." +(Ps. cxiii, 7, 8.)</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Buy the truth and sell it not, also wisdom and instruction.—Prov. +23:23.</p> +</div> + +<p>This incident shows what the grace of God can do<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +for a hardened sinner. Not only can it save him, but +it can keep him. Valentine Burke lived an active, +consistent Christian life in the position until God +called him home in 1895.</p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Visit to Nashville, Tenn., Prison</p> + +<p>Mrs. Wilburn, of Nashville, writes of Mr. Herr's +visit to the Nashville prison as follows: It was my +great pleasure as we reached the door to find Brother +Herr, of Louisville, Ky., awaiting admission. It was +raining, cold and dreary without, but he carried sunshine +on the inside of the prison to the sad prisoners. +The large chapel was filled with eager listeners and +he received a most hearty welcome and all were delighted +to see their true friend Brother Herr. It was +indeed a sight to make angels rejoice to see how +eagerly they drank in every word. I believe many +darkened lives from whom all hope had fled were +encouraged once more to look up. Hundreds of faces +grew brighter as he told with burning words how God +had saved convicts steeped in many crimes, causing +judges in different states to set them free; when they +were told that Jesus had blotted out their past and +made new men of them. At the close of his sermon<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> +Brother Herr asked all who would pray when alone +in their cells that Christ would save them too from +the power of sin, and transform their lives as He had +others, to hold up their hands; as quick as a flash +hundreds of hands white and colored were raised +above their heads and, oh, how our hearts rejoiced as +we saw the hope in so many lives. We are looking to +God who giveth the increase to bless the seed sown +in those sad hearts, and earnestly pray that when the +great harvest day comes many of these men may testify +that the sunshine of God's great love entered +their hearts on that dark dreary day in December.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.—Isa. +52:11.</p> +</div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_SEVEN" id="CHAPTER_SEVEN"></a>CHAPTER SEVEN</h2> + +<p class="chp">DOES PRISON WORK PAY?</p> + + +<p>Who will ever know the vast number that attribute +the first impulse to a better life, formed while in the +seclusion of a prison cell—alone with God.</p> + +<p>The world will never know how many, when sitting +in judgment upon themselves, have learned the great +secret that it takes an <i>Omnipotent Power</i> to change +the current of their lives, and give them deliverance +from the power of sin, and enabling them to go forth +not to live a new purpose, but a new life.</p> + +<p>Many of these unfortunate ones, not remaining +criminals from choice, but because they have never +known there was an antidote provided for the deepest-dyed +criminals, "a scarlet atonement for a scarlet +sin," whereby the power of evil possessing them could +be eradicated from their lives, and they no longer +victims. While some do not seemingly heed the kindly +admonition given, yet we believe the promise of God +will be fulfilled, that "His word will not return +void," and some time—somewhere—the fruition of +their hopes will be realized.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to +stand against the wiles of the devil.—Eph. 6:11.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-101.jpg" width="400" height="515" alt="The Late Col. MAT. RAGLAND" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Col. MAT. RAGLAND</span><br /> +Who aided the Author in securing a pardon from Gov. +Beckham for a young man who is now at +the head of a great firm</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<p>If Mr. A. could speak for himself when 14 years +ago he bowed in his cell as a poor forlorn sinner, and +surrendered himself to God, and has since been testifying +of his saving grace; Mr. B., after leading a criminal +life for years, but when touched by the mighty +power of God, came forth to become a preacher of the +gospel, and has since been magnifying the grace that +brought his deliverance; Mr. C., a desponding infidel, +persuaded to believe there was efficacy in +prayer, and in the atoning blood of the Lord Jesus +Christ; if the multitude of witnesses who have been +saved through the faithfulness of prison workers were +known, the verdict would be—<i>it pays</i>.</p> + +<p style="text-align: right;"> +Louisville, Ky., February 15, 1912. +</p> + +<p>Dear Brother Herr:</p> + +<p>When you handed me your little book "Lost and +is Found" I had no idea what a treasure you were +placing in my hands. Undisturbed in my cell tonight +I read it through and wished for more. I read it the +second and third time, and your sermon so impressed +me I read it the fourth time,</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the +issues of life.—Proverbs 4:23.</p> +</div> + +<p>Before I wandered away from my mother's teaching +and fell into my awful sin and disgrace, I had +heard many sermons on the "Prodigal Son," but none<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> +that in such a convincing way drives home the awfulness +of sin as does your description of this, to me, +the dearest of Christ's parables.</p> + +<p>What I like about you most in all your talks with +the prisoners is this, you never show a man how bad +he is or how low he has fallen without showing him +how good he can become or how high he may rise, +and it's always in a way that appeals to the heart of +the man.</p> + +<p>God grant that while under your influence and in +the knowledge of "your way back to Christ" I and +many of the lost ones within the prison may be able +to throw off the shackles of sin and return to our +Father's love.</p> + +<p>Your noble work among fallen men will never be +known in its entirety in this world, but in that to +come God will surely number you among those who +have brought unto him a great harvest of precious +souls.</p> + +<p>May God bless you and your dear Christian wife +in uplifting the fallen ones, is the earnest prayer of +one who desires your influence over the remainder of +his life.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">Yours for a better life,</div> +<div>Curtis.</div> +</div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>My foot standeth in an even place; in the congregation +I will bless the Lord.—Psalm 26:12.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + + +<p style="text-align:right;">Louisville, Ky., Dec. 26, 1911.</p> + +<p>Rev. Geo. L. Herr,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Jefferson County Jail.</span><br /> +</p> + +<p>Dear Brother Herr:</p> + +<p>I want to thank you for the Christmas service which +you held in the chapel yesterday afternoon.</p> + +<p>I was greatly helped in my own spirit and I was +profoundly impressed with the very evident influence +of the occasion and your address upon the hearts and +spirits of all the other prisoners.</p> + +<p>May God richly reward you in your labors of love +for these people.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">Faithfully yours,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">Henry.</span></div> +</div> + + +<p class="chp_a">The Work of a Prison Evangelist</p> + +<p class="center">By Geo. Wm. Wood</p> + +<p class="center">[From the Courier-Journal Nov. 17, 1912]</p> + +<p>To the right-thinking man there can be but one +answer to the question, does the work of an evangelist +pay? As well might we ask does the beautiful +life of a true Christian pay? As well might we ask +the farmer, as he carefully tills the soil and sows the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +seed and labors to cultivate the grain, does it pay? +What answer would you expect from the shrewd business +man of today should you ask him the question +does it pay, when he labors and advises to keep down +expenses. He would promptly answer in the affirmative. +Let us bring the question closer home. Ask the +prisoner behind the bars, does it pay to respect the +law? He will answer yes. So for the question does +the work of an evangelist pay behind prison bars there +can be but one answer—yes.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly.—1 +Ch. 19:13.</p> +</div> + +<p>Sitting tonight in our lonesome cell, bounded on +three sides by blank and barren walls of steel, through +our two-by-six door, constructed of massive bars of +iron, there comes to us the conversation of our fellow +prisoners, as with head pressed close against the bars +to catch the other fellow's words, we listen to the talk +of the men "committed for crime"—men strong and +healthy, who should be engaged in some honest labor, +but, instead, are "doing time" for a broken law. We +had no idea of the meaning of the words "doing time" +until being placed behind these bars, we took up the +daily life of a prisoner, and with nothing but "time" +to look to, began the task of trying to be contented. +We believe from our own past ideas of prison life that +very few of the outside world have any conception<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> +of what the prisoner's life really is, or what it means +to be sentenced to a term in prison.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>No good thing will he withhold from them that walk +uprightly.—Psalm 84:11.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill-107.jpg" width="600" height="343" alt="JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL, LOUISVILLE, KY." title="" /> +<p class="caption">JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL, LOUISVILLE, KY.<br /> +Members of the International Prison Congress pronounced this prison the +model jail of the world.</p> +</div> + + +<p class="sect">Judge Does Not Understand.</p> + +<p>The judge who pronounces sentence upon the evil +and unfortunate knows as little of the meaning of the +terms he uses in meting out punishment as the mail +clerk knows of the contents of the letters he handles +at his daily task. "Danger" conveys but little meaning +to the mind of the engineer who has never had +a wreck. By the standard of freedom, a day in prison +is a year, and it is only those who mingle daily in our +midst can talk to the "man behind the bars," who +can have a fair idea of what the prisoner suffers daily +in "doing time." The world that lies beneath the +bars is a strange world to the average citizen, the citizen +blessed with average good fortune. Prison life +is a queer and twisted one, and a law to itself.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of +Christ—Ph. 1:27.</p> +</div> + +<p>But to return to the prisoners' conversation, of +which we spoke. Vile—yes, dear reader, this word +does not convey to you the full measure within the +writer's mind. At times it seems that some have sunk +so low that all conception of honor and truth have +passed entirely away. No reverence whatever for such<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> +words as "mother, home or heaven" left within their +minds, for they are rendered entirely void of good +thoughts or honest ideas, having been so long filled +with the one thought—crime.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Prison Record for Life.</p> + +<p>Men who started on their "career of crime" as +mere boys, with years of youth spent in reform schools +only to be developed into men of crime, have prison +records to follow them through life. Many of these +men feel that they have lost all hope of any but the +criminal's life. Many of them have been forsaken by +family and friends. So to the man or woman who +is at all interested in the uplift of his fellow man, +can you think of any field where the labor of an evangelist +is more needed than it is among the men we +have attempted to describe to you?</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong—1 +Corinthians 16:13.</p> +</div> + +<p>Then there is the paramount reason why the evangelist +is needed. Men who would not on the outside +of prison give one minute of their time to listen to +the evangelist as he tried to persuade them to take a +new lease on life let him engage their attention by +the hour as he shows them the error of their way and +points them to a better life. There are those that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> +listen to his talk and turn away in scorn to ridicule +his teaching. But as the days follow on, and the newness +of the prison life begins to wear away, they listen +with more respect to the "man of God."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 439px;"> +<img src="images/ill-111.jpg" width="439" height="500" alt="The Late Hon. J. C. BOHART" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Late Hon. J. C. BOHART</span><br /> +of Chicago, one of the Author's main supporters while living in +Chicago, Ill.</p> +</div> + +<p>We have seen men behind the bars who never before +bent their knee in prayer. After listening to the +evangelist's story of God and his love, they go to +their cells, and upon bended knees, beg for mercy and +help.</p> + +<p>Brother George L. Herr has taken the word of the +Master into many of the prisons of the United States, +but the jails and penitentiaries of his native State of +Kentucky have claimed much of his time and attention. +We must confess when first coming in contact +with him, our feeling against him was bitter, we did +not want his friendship nor his help, only because we +were angered by his denouncing our pet sins. But +as days lengthened into weeks, and weeks into months, +the truth of his kindly spoken words came home to us. +Life was stripped of all its so-called pleasure, with +nothing but its disgrace and shame left to mock us, +having sold out to the "demon of crime."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Why art thou cast down? Hope thou in God.—Psalm +42:5.</p> +</div> + +<p>Then we began to feel the need of his wise counsel +and to realize the good of having him among us.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> +He was always ready and willing to help each and +every man, not only with advice and counsel, but in +so many substantial ways, trying to lighten the prisoner's +burden and make his life better and brighter.</p> + +<p>He has also devoted part of his time to writing +books. Those we call to mind are "Light in Dark +Places," "You Are My Prisoners," "The Life Line," +"Man's Worst Enemy," "Nothing Better," "The +Missionary," "The Bethel," "Lost and is Found," +"A Glorious Rescue," and his new book, "The Nation +Behind Prison Bars," soon to be brought out. +Hundreds of thousands of these books have been sent +broadcast over the world, and through them great +good has been accomplished. Well might he be called +the "Prisoner's Friend," for his desire to aid each +and every man gives to him this well-earned title.</p> + +<p>Full of generosity, kind far beyond the ordinary +meaning of the word, always ready to forgive the +aggressor and to forget the offense, he wins his way +into the hearts of wicked and violent men in a manner +that makes them his lasting friends, and turns +their words of condemnation into words of praise.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and +he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the +wrath of God abideth on him.—John 3:36.</p> +</div> + +<p>We fancy, as we write tonight, while, for the moment, +the stillness of death has fallen upon the entire<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +prison, we can hear his voice, as it rings out in +righteous indignation, through the prison corridors, +calling some man to account for his vile language or +his taking in vain the name of God.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Works Without Pay.</p> + +<p>If you were to ask a prisoner to what church Brother +Herr belongs he would no doubt plead ignorance, +as no faith nor creed is known in his work among the +men. He makes no distinction between chapel-goers +and non-attendants, and will do a favor for the worst +man in prison as readily as for the leader of the chapel +quartet; but ask the same prisoner, "Who is it that +speaks to judge and the warden about the sick mother +who longs to see her imprisoned son before she dies? +Ask him.</p> + +<p>Who pleads with the Governor?</p> + +<p>Who tries to soften the heart of the prosecutor?</p> + +<p>Who provides shoes and clothing for the poor prisoners?</p> + +<p>What unpaid messenger runs the errands of the +prisoners?</p> + +<p>Who reconciles the erring son in prison with his +mother and father?</p> + +<p>He will answer, "Brother Herr."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way.—Psalm +101:2.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, the average prisoner may be deficient in the +matter of mental balance, but he is not an imbecile. +He is a better judge of character and a keener observer +than the more honest and commonplace fellow +man. By the same keen powers of observation that +belong to the criminal type, he notes that Brother +Herr differs from many other prison evangelists, for +he helps without asking questions. He has no theory +or dogma to exploit, and he labors for the uplift of +humanity.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Tribute to Jailer.</p> + +<p>Much that we have written of this great work was +made possible by Jailer John R. Pflanz, who for the +past twelve years has been at the head of the Jefferson +County jail. He is constantly laboring to better +the conditions of the prisoners and give to the people +an honest administration and progressive system of +prison management.</p> + +<p>To him Louisville and Jefferson County owe a great +deal for the good work accomplished among the criminals. +Brother Herr says:</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Deal courageously, and the Lord shall be with the good.—2 +Ch. 19:11.</p> +</div> + +<p>"If such men as John R. Pflanz, of Louisville; John<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span> +L. Whittman, of Chicago; Co. E. E. Mudd, of Frankfort, +and Col. Dan Bartley, of Cincinnati, were placed +in office for life the criminal world would greatly decrease +every year, instead of being on the increase."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-117.jpg" width="400" height="570" alt="Hon. JOHN R. PFLANZ" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Hon. JOHN R. PFLANZ</span><br /> +Jailer of Jefferson County. A friend of the unfortunate.</p> +</div> + +<p>We have never heard of any prisoner complain of +unjust treatment by him, but on the other hand, many +are the unfortunate men who leave this prison to take +their places in business again, because of assistance +given them by Mr. Pflanz.</p> + +<p>His regular rounds through the entire prison are +always hailed with delight by the prisoners, as he is +ever ready to hear their complaints and remedy any +existing evil. He listens to all the appeals for help +by the prisoners and leaves no unfulfilled promises.</p> + +<p>His personal inspection of the "cell-house" and inquiries +about the health and general welfare of all the +prisoners, make him always a welcome visitor among +the men.</p> + +<p>Mr. Pflanz's desire to change the criminal into a +respected citizen and the assistance he gives to bring +about this result proves his thorough understanding, +brought about by years of study and personal contact, +of how to deal with this class of our citizenship.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Be strong and of a good courage; for the Lord thy God +is with thee whithersoever thou goest.—Joshua 1:9.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Youtsey, Kentucky's Famous Prisoner</p> + +<p class="mag">[Louisville Herald]</p> + +<p>Henry E. Youtsey, sentenced to life imprisonment +in the penitentiary for his complicity in the murder of +Governor Goebel, and at the present time the most distinguished +prisoner confined behind the cold, gray +walls of the State prison at Frankfort, has at last +"got religion."</p> + +<p>The man who has succeeded in reaching the heart +of this man whose name emblazened the front pages +of newspapers from coast to coast almost ten years +ago, is the Louisville prison evangelist, the Rev. +George L. Herr. The medium he employed was a little +pamphlet containing the simple story of the reformation +of one Dad O'Brien, an erstwhile scalawag +who was finally converted to a new life.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed +our transgressions from us.—Psalm 103:11.</p> +</div> + +<p>Rev. Herr, who has carried the gospel into the cells +of many a poor, crime-stained wretch, not only here in +Louisville, but in every prison-house in the country +and has accomplished a great amount of good among +the outcasts of society, recently received a letter +dated October 16, 1909, which reads:<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I am delighted to learn that you visited all the +cells today and left in each one the tract, 'How Dad +O'Brien Became Converted.' I have read it, and it +is simply an additional evidence of a truth that has +long been known to sincere evangelists like yourself +to the effect that no matter how hardened and steeped +in sin a poor fellow may be, the love of God can win +him and Jesus can save him, and he can start life +anew, singing praises to his Redeemer, and winning +the lives of his old companions for the Master. I believe +that the happiness of O'Brien's latter years +more than made up for all he suffered—for he enjoyed +a portion of the most glorious life that could be lived +here below. When you get into heaven, as you surely +will, Dad O'Brien will be the brightest star in your +crown. Yours most sincerely,</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Henry E. Youtsey."</span></p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Practical Religious Work in County Jail</p> + +<p>Dear Brother Herr:</p> + +<p>Whenever I think of my confinement in the Louisville +jail, a picture arises before me in which I can +clearly see in the main corridor in the building, down<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> +the center of which extended a long table covered with +a snowy cloth, and then in charge of the Hon. John R. +Pflanz, than whom there never was a kinder-hearted +jailer in all the world.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith +the Lord, and I will receive you.—2 Cor. 6:12.</p> +</div> + +<p>But that table and its delicious burden: Turkey +after turkey, four of which weighed more than twenty-five +pounds each, with all the trimmings, including +dressing, cranberry sauce, etc. There were oysters +fried, and oyster soup, with crackers and celery. And +what an array of cakes! As I remember, there were +chocolate and caramel, layer and black ones, in short, +almost every kind of cakes and pies known to the culinary +art. Then there were bushels of oranges, apples +and mixed nuts, and for a time all of us forgot +about stone walls and iron bars, for what a merry +time we did have discussing that repast!</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not +perish, but have everlasting life.—John 3:16.</p> +</div> + +<p>Whence came all of those good things? Why, the +little man who has so often walked a square or two +further in the rain to buy one banana more for a +nickel for some poor prisoner, and who has worn out +more shoe-leather in helping unfortunate men in durance +vile than any other man in Kentucky: the Rev. +Geo. L. Herr, affectionately called "The Little Missionary," +made personal calls on the wealthy and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span> +charitable merchants in the city of Louisville, soliciting +this food and dinner in the name of humanity, +and may God richly bless all those who helped him +make it such a grand success.</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Henry E. Youtsey.</span></p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Praise for Prison Evangelist</p> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + +<p>To the tributes that have been paid to the Rev. +George Herr, after filling the pulpit of the Clifton +Baptist church, of Louisville, the Rev. James A. Clark +yesterday added a testimonial, in which he praised the +prison evangelist for work which he considers "little +short of wonderful."</p> + +<p>"It gives me pleasure to add my testimonial to the +many I have seen concerning the work of the Rev. +George Herr as prison evangelist," says the Clifton +Baptist church pastor. "Three times I have heard +him tell the simple gospel story of Jesus and his love. +He has a message few preachers have, and tells it with +power and effect. He has a message the world needs +to hear, because it is an example of the power of God +to save to the uttermost.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.—Prov. +1:10.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Mr. Herr has had a wonderful, but costly experience, +which fits him peculiarly for the special work +among prisoners. From a wealthy man, living in a +mansion, sin blindly led him to poverty, robbed him +of his money, property and friends; but God came +into his life and now he rejoices that he is a child of +the King.</p> + +<p>"George Herr is doing a work little short of wonderful. +He deserves the co-operation of the Christian +brotherhood, and I take pleasure in commending +him."</p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Sermon in State Prison</p> + +<p class="mag">Rev. Jos. Severance, Chaplain, says in the Courier-Journal:</p> + +<p>One of the most remarkable meetings in the annals +of the prison was held in the chapel of the penitentiary +at Frankfort, Ky., Sunday morning. George L. +Herr, of Louisville, a friend of Chaplain Severance, +was present and spoke from the fourth and twelfth +verses of the 103rd Psalm. The sermon was a strong +appeal to the men for gratitude to God for the rich +provision for the redemption of the race and urging +them to accept the mercy of God and allow him to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> +remove their sins from them "as far as the East is +from the West." The chapel was crowded to the +doors, and during the sermon that lasted for an hoar +no one moved and none went out.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>My feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh +slipped.—Psalm 73:2.</p> +</div> + +<p>At the close of the sermon the gospel invitation +was given and a total of forty-two men came forward, +some to confess faith in Christ (of these there were +thirty-seven) and others to renew their vows. Hundreds +asked for prayer in their behalf. Among those +who came were some of the hardest men in the prison +and more noted for insubordination and disobedience +than for piety and morality.</p> + +<p>But the Chaplain believes that the per cent. of those +who remain true is as great among prisoners as among +those outside.</p> + +<p>Bro. Herr knows the prison work as few men do. +He is a man of large sympathy, and having had an +experience of fifteen years as an evangelist knows +how to reach the hearts of the men. He has the entire +confidence of both prisoners and officials and is +always given a most hearty welcome by all.</p> + +<p>The baptism of the thirty-seven men who made confession +Sunday will be attended to next Sunday morning. +Mr. Herr will return to the baptism.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of +these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.—Matt. 25:40.</p> +</div> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Revival Stirs Up Inmates</p> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr preached yesterday at the +Frankfort penitentiary for the Rev. Joseph Severance, +who was filling another engagement. Several hundred +men and women asked for prayer, and fourteen +confessed Christ and were baptized in the prison pool +in the afternoon by the chaplain, assisted by the Rev. +C. R. Hudson and the Rev. Herr, prison evangelist.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>The prisoners in the Frankfort penitentiary were +again blessed by a visit from Bro. Geo. L. Herr, the +Louisville prison evangelist, who came unexpectedly +to us. It was doubly fortunate, for the reason that +Bro. Jos. Severance, the chaplain, was absent from +the city and therefore could not fill his appointment.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>He that believeth on him is not condemned; but he that +believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not +believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.—John +3:18.</p> +</div> + +<p>Bro. Herr read that most beautiful 37th Psalm, +which is replete with comfort for those who are in dire +distress and in need of consolation, placing special +emphasis on those passages which teach patience and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> +faith in "The God who is mighty to save and strong +to deliver."</p> + +<p>Bro. Herr never fails to extend the invitation of +the gospel; in fact, that is his strong point, and is +recognized by him to be the most important part of +his work as an evangelist. His labor was rewarded, +as he won eight souls for our Lord and Saviour.</p> + +<p>The following representatives, members of the present +General Assembly, were present at the morning +services: W. H. Jones, Princeton, Ky.; John T. +Shanklin, Johnson, Ky.; W. A. B. Davis, Mt. Vernon, +Ky.; Albert Butler. These gentlemen have been coming +regularly, which proves that they are interested +in our welfare, and also devoted to the church services. +We are always proud of their presence, and invite all +their colleagues.</p> + +<p>At the afternoon Christian Endeavor service, Bro. +Herr made an extemporaneous address in which he +revealed the secret of his wonderful success as a soul-winner, +which the writer would call unlimited charity, +and inexhaustible brotherly love; the love that always +instantly forgives, and as quickly extends a hand to +help a fallen brother rise.</p> + +<p>The eulogy he paid his wife, whom he acknowledged +to be the inspiration to his life, was most beautiful. +At this service he won five more souls for his hire, +making thirteen for the day.</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Henry E. Youtsey.</span></p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_EIGHT" id="CHAPTER_EIGHT"></a>CHAPTER EIGHT</h2> + +<p class="chp">A MAN OF HONOR</p> + + +<p>For several years I have been deeply interested +in the men confined in the prison, and in the betterment +of their condition. Each time I held service +in the prison I came in contact with, and was very +much encouraged and assisted by the warden's great +kindness. He did much to improve the conditions of +life within the prison walls. <span class="smcap">G. L. H.</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p class="mag">[Evening Post.]</p> + +<p>FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 23.—The body of Edward +E. Mudd, late warden of the Frankfort State +Reformatory, who died yesterday morning, was taken +this morning to his former home at Glendale, in Hardin +County, where it will be buried this afternoon.</p> + +<p>Yesterday afternoon the body lay in state in the +prison chapel and was viewed by 1,300 convicts.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.—Prov. +1:10.</p> +</div> + +<p>Five floral designs were sent from the penitentiary. +The guards and the deputy wardens and the clerks +sent two, a few of the "trusties" sent another, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +the white prisoners and the colored prisoners each +sent a design. These latter were paid for in 5 and +10-cent contributions.</p> + +<p>The Prison Commission, which is in session, ordered +flowers sent from Louisville, and adopted the following +resolution:</p> + +<p>"Resolved, That in the death of Edward E. Mudd, +warden of the State Reformatory at Frankfort, the +State of Kentucky has lost a valuable public official, +and the prison has been deprived of an ideal executive.</p> + +<p>"His long experience in prison work had supplemented +his natural ability, with the result that he +brought to a difficult task a trained mind and an admirable +judgment. He was firm without being severe; +gentle without being weak; with a heart full of kindness +for the unfortunates under his control.</p> + +<p>"The Board of Prison Commissioners recognized +his worth; had the fullest appreciation of his manliness, +his integrity and his devotion to duty. They +sought his advice on all important matters, and in his +demise they realize that the State has sustained an +irreparable loss. The sincere sympathy of the board +is hereby extended to his bereaved wife and children."</p> + +<p>Until a successor to Warden Mudd is appointed one +of the commissioners will be constantly in Frankfort.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.—Jno. 8:11.</p> +</div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_NINE" id="CHAPTER_NINE"></a>CHAPTER NINE</h2> + +<p class="chp">JIM O'BRIEN: MODERN MIRACLE</p> + +<p class="byline">By George L. Herr</p> + + +<p>Several years ago I met in the Jefferson County jail, +Louisville, Ky., "Dad O'Brien," one of the worst +criminals I have ever known. Fifty odd years of age, +forty years a thief and twenty-five years behind the +bars. The sentence in the jail was a light one—one +year and a half—for having received stolen property, +but he had stolen from one to tens of thousands. He +was son of a prominent physician of Cincinnati, +for twenty years professor of anatomy in the Ohio +Medical College. He began by stealing from his +mother's purse and then, when punished by his father, +would steal his father's instruments and sell them for +revenge. His father, being a very stern man, drove +"Billy" from home, and the night came on with no +place to go.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, +and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, +and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from +death unto life.—John 5:24.</p> +</div> + +<p>He led a low, degraded life, and was finally arrested<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> +and sentenced to serve ten years in the Columbus +penitentiary. When he was about to serve his first +sentence—which seemed to him a lifetime—a young +lady, an old schoolmate and who had been visiting him +in jail, proposed marriage to him, so she could have +the right to visit him in Columbus and provide him +with the comforts of life, as far as possible. She was +a girl of means, and he was stunned by the proposal. +For, he said, he had not thought of such a thing as +a wife. But he told her to come back the next day +and he would let her know. She did, and he accepted +and they were married on the eve of his leaving for +the penitentiary. He only served part of the sentence, +and when released went to the home of the girl +and began life in a new way, only to fall in the old +rut in a short time. He kept up his criminal life for +years.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all +of them snared in holes, are for a prey, and none delivereth: +for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. Who among +you will give ear to this? Who will harken and hear for +the time to come?"—Isaiah 42:22.</p> +</div> + +<p>The good wife died, and after her death he became +one of the most notorious bank robbers in this country. +While in the county jail at Louisville, Ky., Dad's +friends were standing nobly by him. He had plenty +of money sewed in his clothes to meet his every need.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> +I tried hard to reach him, but he was determined not +to have anything to do with a "Sky Pilot," as he +called me. The first time I spoke to him he almost +spit in my face, but that never daunted me. I was +more determined to win him. I saw he was a diamond +in the rough. He had a bright mind, a man filled +with history.</p> + +<p>While in prison in Louisville, Ky., he became interested, +and determined to quit the old life. After +this determination he immediately wrote his intentions +to his old pals on the outside, and told them not +to send him any more money, for he was done with +that life. They told him he was a fool and had gone +crazy, and everything else they could think of.</p> + +<p>But he was that kind, when he made up his mind +to do a thing he did it.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our +refuge.—Psalm 46:7.</p> +</div> + +<p>Then it was my opportunity for the practical side +of Christianity, for I believe in that side. His clean +laundry must be supplied, extra food that his old +companions had been having sent in from the restaurants +must now be brought by the missionary from +home. Many are the baskets of food I have carried +from my cottage home to this man. But the time was +coming when he was to be released and nowhere to go,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> +and that was the thing that seemed to trouble him +most.</p> + +<p>I said: "Never mind, 'Dad,' when you get out of +this prison-house come to my home, I'll take care of +you and help you to a good life." Well, one night, +at about 8 o'clock he knocked on the door. How glad +wife and I were to see him! He often said, "How +warm the fire looks and how home-like to see you all +sitting around." We gave him a good warm supper, +a good bed, the best room in the house, but that was +not all he needed. The next day was the beginning of +the real battle. The detectives were hounding him. +But to keep them from rearresting him we sent him +across the river until we could plead with the officers +to give this man another chance. We believe had it +not been for the great interest taken by John R. +Pflanz, the jailer, at this time for this man, that he +would have died in a cell in some far Eastern prison. +He said, "What's the use? Let me alone; there is +only one thing for me and that is to go back to the +old life." We said, "'D,' we'll see you through."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I know not how to go.—1 Kings 3:7.</p> +</div> + +<p>All this time we were trying to find employment for +him. All this time he was growing impatient and +would say: "A great big husky fellow like me laying +around on a little man like Brother Herr." He<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span> +weighed about 190 pounds, but we would encourage +him by saying, "Well, Dad, you know God's people +have all things in common, and he knows you are +here, and when he sends to us he sends it for you as +well."</p> + +<p>One day when we were talking, he said: "Brother +Herr, those old charges in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburg, +Cincinnati and New York are hanging over me +and I must face them."</p> + +<p>We said, "Well, Dad, if you have made up your +mind you would rather live for God behind the bars +than to live for the devil on the outside or the inside, +God will see you through. Go and face these charges, +and if you mean business, God will take care of you."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I will guide thee.—Ps. 32:8.</p> +</div> + +<p>He went first to St. Louis and told the judge on the +bench that he had quit the old life forever. They +looked at him, and even those who were his bitter enemies, +said, "Give him another chance; go and be a +man and we will help you." He came back to our +home from St. Louis, stayed a few weeks and started +for the other charges, encouraged by the last trip. +He went to Chicago first, and they told him the same +thing there; then he went to Cincinnati, then to Pittsburg, +and they said, "Dad, if you mean business you +shall have a chance." Then he went to New York<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span> +where he and three other men had robbed a bank of +$175,000. When he went in to see the New York people +they did not know him. He had been living a +Christian life for several months. Salvation changes +the looks of a man, and takes away the hard lines and +softens the eye; and when he told them who he was, +they said: "My God! where did you come from and +what are you doing here?"</p> + +<p>He told these gentlemen what had taken place in +his life, and of his determination for the future. Said +one wealthy man, "Well, Dad, go on your way and +may God be with you and help you."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; +for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help +thee.—Is. 41:10.</p> +</div> + +<p>He went on a hunt for the old friend "Hinky +Dink" down in the first ward. "Hinky Dink" saw +him, paid for a week's lodging at the Mills Hotel, and +gave him money for meals each day. Finally one day +"Hinky Dink" and Dad, standing in the front of his +(Hinky Dink's) saloon, called "the workingmen's +bar," where they line up by the fifties at a time, looking +in, "Hinky Dink" said, "Dad, you are worth $18 +a week to me behind that bar." Dad said, "Me? +Not me for $1,800 a week. I am a Christian, I have +quit all that, never to return again." "Hinky Dink" +said: "Well, what do you want, anyhow?" Dad<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> +said: "I want to go to Cincinnati to the Holiness camp +meeting." "Hinky Dink" said, "Where?" (this +being all Greek to him), as it was not in his line, he +knew.</p> + +<p>"Dad" repeated what he had said, and "Hinky +Dink" said: "Come right over here and I'll buy you +a ticket." He took him over to the railroad office, +and bought him a limited ticket to Cincinnati. Dad +said, when telling us, "He thought he was shipping +me in the quickest way possible, but it was the Lord +taking care of 'Old Dad,' and sending him in first-class +style."</p> + +<p>Again he came back to our home, stayed several +weeks, then we got him $20 worth of religious books +to travel around to the camp meetings to sell, and to +tell his experience, for the people were eager to hear +this wonderful experience of God's transforming +power, wherever he went. We started him off, and he +soon felt his call to preach the gospel. He was ordained +in Indianapolis in 1905, and preached up and +down the land, winning lost men and women for Jesus. +His life was a miracle of what God's grace can do. +He married a fine Christian woman, who was a great +help to him in his work.</p> + +<p>In the fall of 1908 he died a triumphant death, +leaving a glorious testimony behind.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="chp_a">Jim O'Brien Passes Away</p> + +<p>The Courier-Journal republishes herewith from the +Indianapolis Herald an editorial by the Rev. George +E. Bueler, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, +Indianapolis, Ind.:</p> + +<p>"The Rev. William H. Frazier, alias Jim O'Brien," +died at Indianapolis on Monday, October 30, 1908.</p> + +<p>"At an early age Frazier began associating with +bad boys on the streets of Cincinnati and of course +was soon drawn into sin. At the age of 14 he began +stealing, at first on a small scale, and increasing with +the years until he became one of the most daring and +successful bank robbers known in America. He was +arrested and in prison many times, but when at +liberty he drifted back into crime again. For forty +years he was a criminal; of that time twenty-three +years and six months was spent behind prison bars. +Although he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars +he was released from prison the last time in Louisville +with only $2.40 left. What wages for forty years +in the service of Satan! While incarcerated in the +Jefferson County jail, at Louisville, Ky., Missionary +George L. Herr found this wretched man and through +many months of persistent effort found a way to his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> +heart. At first the missionary was met with curses +and abuses, but love conquered, and the result was +Jim's conversion, a miracle indeed, for, from that +time in January, 1903, "Dad," as he was known, +lived a godly life and retrieved for the past by telling +everywhere he went his life story, showing forth the +glory of God's redeeming grace. No one knew better +than Bro. Frazier what it meant for a man to be released +from prison and again face the world. With +the disgrace and odium upon him it is well nigh impossible +for him to find honest employment, for no +one knowing him to be an exconvict wants him in +their employ, the temptation to return to the old life +is strong. With this in view he began making homes +for such men in large cities. While Bro. Frazier was +working and starting a home in Cincinnati he was +made prison chaplain for the entire city. During the +past summer he and his wife came to Indianapolis. +While here his physical condition gave way; he knew +his end was near. To those who waited on him in his +last hours he constantly affirmed his faith in God and +passed peacefully away. The funeral was conducted +by the Revs. Parker, Stevens and Bueler, with special +singing by Mr. Maxwell, Mrs. Bueler and Mrs. Nelson. +All who want a more complete account of this wonderful +life should read his book, "From Crime to +Christ."</p> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_TEN" id="CHAPTER_TEN"></a>CHAPTER TEN</h2> + +<p class="chp">COLUMBUS OHIO PRISON</p> + +<p class="mag">[Ohio Penitentiary News]</p> + + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr, prison evangelist, returned +yesterday from St. Louis, where he went in the +interest of the men "behind the bars." The Rev. +Mr. Herr also had a delightful visit with his son, of +St. Louis. Mr. Herr, on his return home, received +the following letter from the Rev. D. J. Starr, D.D., +chaplain at Columbus, O., penitentiary:</p> + +<p>Dear Brother: I thank you for your letter informing +me that you will spend Sunday, March 8, with us +at this prison. We intend to make good use of you +for the Master's cause. We will wish you, unless it +will weary you to do so, to speak to our Sunday-school +at 8 o'clock; address the prayer meeting at 9 o'clock; +preach in chapel at 10 o'clock; attend Female Bible +class and talk at 3 p.m., and men's Bible class at 7 +p.m.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"I was in prison, and ye came unto me."—Matt. 25:36.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Courier-Journal republishes herewith from the +Ohio Penitentiary News an editorial by the Rev. D. J. +Starr, D.D., chaplain at the Columbus, O., prison:</p> + +<p>"The Rev. George L. Herr, whose address delivered +in our chapel last Sunday morning was charmingly +refreshing, is a man whose vicissitudes of life lead +through a labyrinth that would require a half century +of years to make its journey at an ordinary pace. But +George L. Herr is not the man to do anything in an +ordinary way. The itinerary of his life shows few +curves—mostly acute angles. He was born in an old +Kentucky family of the city of Louisville. His ancestral +stock was golden, and his infancy was fed with +a golden spoon on sugar and cream. When he was +three months old his Christian mother went to be +with God. When he was 18 years old his father, +Richard S. Herr, a capitalist of Louisville, died and +left George the heir of a large patrimony.</p> + +<p>"The orphan was genial, sportive, rich and without +domestic restraint. Men seized the opportunity to +take advantage of his tendencies and youth to filch +from him his wealth. He yielded, and threw on the +neck of appetite the slackened rein and became woefully +dissipated. He mounted the toboggan and went +down the slide, landing in a few years in the gulch of +destitution and near the precipice of suicide.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Teach me thy way, O Lord.—Ps. 86:11.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Here in destitution and despair on the day after +Christmas, 1893, the Rev. S. P. Holcombe, of Louisville, +found the prodigal and led him into the Union +Gospel Mission, where he sought and came to know +God as a personal Saviour. What a change! New +bottles for the new wine of the Spirit! As language +cannot picture the degradation of the prodigal, neither +can it picture the exaltation of the son restored to +the Father. George was as whole-hearted in his new +life as in his old. He had beauty for ashes and a +spirit of praise instead of heaviness. After nearly +five years of the new life George L. Herr, in the city +of his fall and his recovery, was married by the Rev. +Dr. Carter H. Jones, pastor of Broadway Baptist +Church, to Miss Lillie M. Joyce. George says +that if a man ever outmarried himself he's the +man. He says God gave him this priceless treasure +of a Christian wife in answer to prayer. Those who +know Mrs. Herr speak of her as sweet-spirited, noble, +devout, gifted in song and speech and one in spirit +with her husband in the work of saving those who +are out of the way. Their home is filled with the +aroma of grace and their united lives are spent in +doing good. How wonderfully God fulfills His ancient +promise to present-day prodigals: 'As ye were +a curse, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing.'"<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="chp">The Big Ohio "Pen" Week by Week</p> + +<p class="sect">Weekly Budget of Personal, Local and Other Newsbits.</p> + +<p class="sect">To-morrow in the Chapel.</p> + + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Sunday School</td><td align="right">8 A.M.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Prayer Meeting</td><td align="right">9 A.M.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">The Great Congregation</td><td align="right">10 A.M.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Entry March</td><td align="right">Band</td></tr> +</table> +<p class="center">(Thomas McCaskie, Leader.)</p> + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Gloria Patri</td><td align="right">Entire Congregation</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">(Directed by Choirmaster Prof. J. H. Chavers.)</p> + +<p class="center">Invocation.</p> + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Songs</td> +<td align="right">By Miss Luale Bethel</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">"A Rose in Heaven."</p> +<p class="center">"Life's Lullaby."</p> + +<p class="center">First Scripture Lesson.</p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Anthem</td><td align="right">Choir</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Morning Prayer</td><td align="right">Chaplain</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Lord's Prayer</td><td align="right">Response by Choir</td></tr> +</table></div> +<p class="center">Second Scripture Lesson.</p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Hymn No. 3</td><td align="right">Choir</td></tr> +</table></div> +<p class="center">"Within Thy Courts."</p> + +<div class="center"> +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="left">Sermon</td><td align="right">Rev. George L. Herr</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Hymn No. 355</td><td align="right">Choir</td></tr> +</table></div> +<p class="center">"Calvary."</p> + +<table class="sched" border="0" width="80%" summary="schedule"> +<tr><td align="center" colspan="3">Doxology.</td><td align="center" colspan="2">Benediction.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left" colspan="2">Band.</td><td align="center" colspan="2">March.</td><td align="right">Exit.</td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span></p> + +<hr /> +<p class="chp_a">Chapel Services</p> + +<p>In the Bible-school at 8 o'clock through the doorway +of life beyond, which Christ left open that men might +both look in and go in, the 300 students saw some of +the things that "God hath prepared for them that love +Him." The germinal thoughts of John 14:1-14 are +that heaven is a place—a roomy place, a prepared +place, a place where the Lord abides and where he +will have his prepared people to abide with him. +And that in this doctrine is the cure for human sorrow. +"Let not your heart be troubled * * believe."</p> + +<p>At the 9 o'clock meeting the quotation of Scripture +verses appeared like apples of gold in pictures of silver. +Rev. George L. Herr was introduced and the +hearts of hearers beat warm under their jackets as +the speaker sang and talked to them of Jesus and His +love. It was good to be there.</p> + +<p>The Great Congregation gathered at 10 o'clock and +was welcomed with the stirring notes of the band men. +The many voices lifted in the chant, "Gloria Patri," +showed how grand the effect would be if all would +join in the song. Why not all?</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Give me understanding.—Ps. 119:34.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span></p> + +<p>"A Rose in Heaven," and "Life's Lullaby," were +admirably sung by Miss Lucile Bethel with her sister +Miss Bethel as accompanist at the piano. The anthem, +"Ashamed of Jesus? Never, No Never," was sung by +the choir as the author of the song might have wished +to hear it rendered.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>That old story of the prodigal son was the subject +on which Rev. George L. Herr of Louisville, Ky., +preached to the inmates of the penitentiary Sunday +morning in the chapel, but it was the twentieth century +prodigal who formed his main theme.</p> + +<p>Mr. Herr is known all over the country as the prison +missionary. He has all the vivacity and warmth of +the Southerner. He illuminated the old parable with +the story of his descent from the position of a son of +a wealthy Kentucky home, possessing a large estate, +to the destitution of a linen duster for a December +coat, and from a seat in a Pullman to riding the bumpers +of a cattle train. That was his condition sixteen +years ago. The men enjoyed the object lesson and +cheered the moral heroism evinced in the life-story +of the missionary.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I am understanding.—Prov. 8:14.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Courier-Journal republishes herewith from the +Evangel an editorial by the Rev. L. B. Haines at Columbus, +O.:</p> + +<p>"The editors of the Evangel were pleased to meet +Mr. George L. Herr while in Columbus a few days +ago. He addressed the prisoners at the Ohio penitentiary +and was heartily received by all who heard +him. He is doing a noble work in the prisons all over +our country. We spent a pleasant afternoon together, +visiting the sick in the prison hospital, and we believe +God blessed the seed sown. The Evangel wishes him +and his dear wife God speed in their self-sacrificing +efforts for the lost. We take great pleasure in calling +the attention of the readers of the Evangel to Herr's +new book entitled "The Nation Behind Prison Bars," +a notice of which you will find on another page of this +issue.—Eds."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not +perish, but have everlasting life.—Jno. 3:16.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="CHAPTER_ELEVEN" id="CHAPTER_ELEVEN"></a>CHAPTER ELEVEN</h2> + +<p class="chp">INCONTESTABLE PROOF</p> + +<p class="center">OUR MOTTO:</p> + +<p class="center">"Seeking the Lost."</p> + +<p class="center">"Helping the Helpless to Help Themselves."</p> + +<p class="center">JAILER PFLANZ PAYS A HIGH COMPLIMENT TO +EVANGELIST GEO. L. HERR</p> + +<p class="date">Louisville, Ky., March 12, 1901.</p> + +<p>Mr. Geo. L. Herr,</p> + +<p>Dear Sir: I have recently been asked by several +persons on different occasions if I thought much good +could come out of the rescue work done at the county +jail. In every instance I would answer "yes." A +great deal of good is done through the Christian +workers, and especially by you, who not only give +your time and attention to this work, preaching the +gospel on the Sabbath, but on every day of your life +doing everything in your power to lighten the burden +of the unfortunates confined in the jail.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>My glad heart says in the language of the Psalmist: +"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits."</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 274px;"> +<img src="images/ill-147.jpg" width="274" height="340" alt="Rev. C. S. HANLEY" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rev. C. S. HANLEY</span><br /> +President of International Federation of +Christian Workers, by whom we were +ordained in Chicago, Ill., in 1907.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> + +<p>I have known prisoners of all classes look forward +to your arrival each day with gladness, knowing that +if you did not have something to distribute among +them you would give them a cheery good morning.</p> + +<p>As a rule you always have something to give them, +which gladden their hearts and make them think better +of our harsh world, wherein they are buffeted +around like so many things to be despised.</p> + +<p>I have never known you to come to this jail that +you were not interested in some poor fellow's case, +and often have I known you to call on either the +Judge of the Police or Criminal Court to intercede +for some person confined in our jail. I have noticed +that whenever you come you are asked by more than +one of our prisoners to go on some mission, either to +a father, mother, or some other relative. Distance +and barriers have no terror for you, as was evidenced +in your recent trip fifteen hundred miles for one of +our prisoners to see his parents.</p> + +<p>In every case you have with promptness attended +to requests, always with a cheerfulness that is surprising +to those who cannot understand and will not +learn. These are the things that lift up the hearts of +the poor unfortunate prisoner and make him feel that +there is something worth living for.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it.—Ps. 69:18.</p> +</div><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p> + +<p>My wish and prayer is that you may go on in the +good work you are doing.</p> + + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">Sincerely yours,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">John R. Pflanz</span></div> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Following are letters of endorsement to Missionary +George L. Herr and his wife in their life-work among +outcasts, fallen ones and victims of sin. Among +those who have lent substantial aid and hearty encouragement +to the work will be noted many of our +leading citizens, men of irreproachable character and +standing in society, who have not hesitated to add +their quota of praise to the universal word of approbation +accorded the missionary in his efforts to lead +the wayward ones back into the path of self-respect +and manhood.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me; Lord be thou +my helper.—Ps. 30:10.</p> +</div> + +<p class="date">Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 22, 1904.</p> + +<p>Dear Bro. Herr: I regret that you and your good +wife and "Sunshine" can not be with us in our services +next week at the Frankfort Penitentiary, but am +glad to have you promise to be with us soon. No one +understands this work for the salvation and elevation +of those in our penal institutions,—the possibilities,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> +the discouragements, the trials, the triumphs, the rejoicing—as +we do who are constantly engaged in it. +Your frequent visits to us are always appreciated +both by the chaplain and the prisoners, and your +sermons and talks and songs are blessed by God to +the furtherance of the work of grace in our midst. +I can truly say there are eyes that "mark your coming +and look brighter when you come." I wish also +to say for your encouragement and those who work +with you that your faithful labors are plainly manifest +in the lives of many whom you come in contact +with—the deep and lasting impressions made upon +their minds and hearts so we are enabled to take up +the well begun work and by God's help carry it on +to salvation of the soul. May God bless you abundantly +in your noble work.</p> + +<div style="width:auto; height:4em;"> +<div style="width: 18em; height:4em; float:right;"> +<div class="center">Truly yours,</div> +<div class="center"><span class="smcap">T. T. Taliaferro</span>,</div> +<div class="center">Chaplain Ky. State Penitentiary.</div> +</div></div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Forsake me not, O Lord.—Ps. 38:21.</p> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Rev. H. C. Morrison, D.D., Editor Pentecostal +Herald, Louisville, Ky., and President Wilmore College, +Wilmore, Ky., says:</p> + +<p>I take pleasure in commending my friend and +brother, Geo. L. Herr, as a devout Christian and earnest<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>Wishing him and his wife great success as they +shall go from prison to prison seeking after the lost,</p> + +<div style="width:auto; height:3em;"> +<div style="float:left;">I am</div> +<div style="width: 14em; height:3em; float:right;"> +<div>Respectfully yours,</div> +<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="smcap">H. C. Morrison.</span></div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>Rev. James M. Taylor, world-wide evangelist, says:</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">James M. Taylor</span>, Evangelist.</p> +<p>Knoxville, Tenn.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="mag">(Frankfort Journal.)</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="Prison_Evangelists_Good_Work" id="Prison_Evangelists_Good_Work"></a>Prison Evangelist's Good Work</h2> + +<p class="mag">(Courier-Journal.)</p> + + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span></p> + +<p>Rev. W. O. Vreeland, chaplain Frankfort Reformatory, +says:</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">W. O. Vreeland.</span></p> +<p>Oct. 12, 1912.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + + + + +<h2><a name="A_Grand_Work_Highly_Commended" id="A_Grand_Work_Highly_Commended"></a>A Grand Work Highly Commended</h2> + +<p class="date">Louisville, Ky., July 24, 1902.</p> + +<p>Rev. Geo. L. Herr,</p> + +<p>Dear Brother Herr: I regret very much to learn +of your departure from the city, and the work you +have so nobly, and for so long a time, engaged in at +this institution and elsewhere. To say that you will +be missed by us is but faintly expressing my feelings +at your departure. You will not only be missed by +myself and other officials at the jail, but by the poor +unfortunates placed in my custody, for I know I can +truthfully say we will never be able to get any one<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> +who will take the pains and do the great good you +have done for all with whom you have come in contact.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.—Heb. 13:5.</p> +</div> + +<p>I can assure you that your farewell sermon to all +of the one hundred and eighty prisoners in this jail +on yesterday was the cause of great depression in +the spirits of all who heard you on that occasion, for +every one of them felt that he or she was about to lose +their best friend, who had not only ministered to their +spiritual wants but made their troubles his own, and +in every way in his power relieved them of their every +ailment.</p> + +<p>You and your good wife were as father and mother +to them, their guardian angels, who made their +rugged paths smooth and their futures bright and +happy.</p> + +<p>It is with much sorrow that I write you today, and +my only consolation is in the hope that you may some +day return and take up the good work again for the +betterment of the unfortunates who may be confined +in this and other institutions in which you have +worked in this city.</p> + + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:4em;">Sincerely yours,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">John R. Pflanz.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>O Lord, make haste to help me.—Ps. 40:13.</p> + +<p>I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the +Holy One of Israel.—Is. 41:14.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Worked_Wonders" id="Worked_Wonders"></a>"Worked Wonders"</h2> + +<p class="center">Declares Dr. Garvin, Physician Jefferson County Jail</p> + + +<p class="date">Louisville, Ky., July 24th, 1902.</p> + +<p>Rev. George L. Herr,</p> + +<p>My Dear Brother Herr: It is with much regret +I have heard of your determination to leave us. You +and your good wife have now been engaged, for about +four years, in the noble work of saving souls in the +Jefferson County jail, and to the success of your efforts +I can truly bear testimony.</p> + +<p>I must confess that at first I had little hope of much +good being accomplished, but your constant devotion +at all hours, night and day, has worked wonders, and +I am satisfied that many who came steeped in sin and +in their own minds hopelessly lost, have left the prison +at peace with God, and with a determination in the +future to lead a better life.</p> + +<p>Wherever you go, may God be with you, is the wish +of all who know you, and especially that of your +friend,</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:2em;"><span class="smcap">Sam'l H. Garvin.</span></div> +<div>Physician to Jefferson County Jail.</div> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Strong_Endorsements" id="Strong_Endorsements"></a>Strong Endorsements</h2> + +<p class="center">Evangelist Herr's work commended by Minister.</p> + +<p class="mag">[Louisville Evening Times]</p> + +<p class="date">Louisville, Ky., June 21, 1905.</p> + +<p>Rev. Horace G. Ogden, D.D., Pastor Trinity M. E. +Church, Louisville, Ky., says:</p> + +<p>To Whom It May Concern:</p> + +<p>I take pleasure in commending Mr. Geo. Herr to +the esteem and confidence of the public. I have been +placed where I have known intimately his work as +Prison Evangelist in Jefferson County Jail—a place +incomparable in my opinion for testing the character +and power of a Christian worker. I can say he has +made a superb record and been able by divine assistance +to rescue many from the life of crime. He has +taken an enlarged field of work because he has been +convinced it was the call of the Highest, and I have +every confidence in his increased usefulness. I cheerfully +commend him and his work. His book is true +and merits large circulation. Mr. Herr is a fine public +speaker.</p> + + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:8em;">Sincerely,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">Horace G. Ogden.</span></div> +</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Speaks_to_Prisoners" id="Speaks_to_Prisoners"></a>Speaks to Prisoners</h2> + + +<p>The Rev. J. A. Holton, Chaplain Eddyville Penitentiary, +commends Rev. Herr's work:</p> + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr, the well-known Louisville +prison evangelist, conducted the chapel services at +the Eddyville State penitentiary, Eddyville, Ky., on +Sunday, February 16. Mr. Herr's address to the +prisoners made a very decided impression upon the +men. In a letter to Louisville, J. A. Holton, Chaplain +of the penitentiary, writes of Mr. Herr's visit to +Eddyville as follows:</p> + +<p>"Brother Herr is a fluent and earnest talker and +speaks from personal experience and observation with +telling effect, timely words that tend to the betterment +of his hearers. No one who is acquainted with his +personal history and present effort in the cause of +prison reform could doubt his sincerity. It is not a +surprise, therefore, that from every sphere of his +labor along the line of evangelistic work in the prisons +of the land come unsolicited testimonials commending +him and his work."—The Louisville Times.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>And God spake all these words, saying, +I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of +the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.—Ex. 20:1-2.</p> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Sad_and_Pitiful_Stories" id="Sad_and_Pitiful_Stories"></a>Sad and Pitiful Stories</h2> + +<p class="mag">[The Louisville Herald]</p> + + +<p>For fifteen years Mr. Herr has carried the great +truths to the outcasts, giving warning of the danger, +and thousands have repented and have been rescued +from lives of sin and shame and are now blessings to +the community. Hundreds of thousands of tracts, +sermons, books, papers, etc., have been distributed, +the results of which can never be known.</p> + +<p>"One of the saddest features of this work is that +we are constantly beset by the sad-faced, grief-stricken, +broken-hearted mothers and wives who have +been so unfortunate as to lose their loved ones in sin," +declared Rev. Herr. "They come to us and plead for +us to help find the wanderer.</p> + +<p>"The pitiful stories of disgrace, shame and disappointment +that come from the broken hearts who are +victims are beyond expression and almost enough to +melt the heart of stone into a river of tears, and to +stir us who hear them and see the helplessness of unfortunate +ones.</p> + +<p>"There never was a place where the gospel was +needed more and where it would do more good, than in +the prison houses of our beautiful land."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Open them mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous +things out of thy law.—Ps. 119:18.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Resolution_That_Was_Never_Broken" id="Resolution_That_Was_Never_Broken"></a>Resolution That Was Never Broken</h2> + +<p class="center">"I am done with a life of thieving."—E. B.</p> + + +<p>Another of the days in jail that will long be remembered +by some of the poor unfortunates who have been +making this place their residence for some time. The +missionary who makes prison work the work of his +life preached to the men today, the service being in +the place of the regular Saturday services, because +the convicted men were to go to the penitentiary Saturday +morning, and Brother Herr intended to go to +Cincinnati, Ohio, this evening. So the good brother +gave the men some good, wholesome advice.</p> + +<p>And in opening the services, that always appropriate +song of "Let a little sunshine in" was sung, +and the good God knows that if any one in this world +needs "sunshine" that person is the one who is behind +prison bars.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Thou shalt have no other gods before me.</p> +</div> + +<p>I have seen some curious things in my wandering +life, and some very curious and saddening sights are +to be seen in jail. To see men right in the prime of +their manhood going to a living tomb, to actually +bury themselves for years, is a sight not easily forgotten.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> +Oh, the misery, the shame, and the degradation +of it all. It is no wonder that some of the unfortunates +weep. The sight of so much misery seen at one +time is enough to melt the heart of the most hardened +criminal. As I watched the men put up their hands +in reply to the question of "How many of you men +want to lead a better life?" I could not blame any +one of the prisoners for putting up their hands in a +resolve to lead a clean life.</p> + +<p>My sympathy is with the unfortunate. I have been +placed in positions just like these men are placed in, +but never again! Oh, I hope that when I finish this +term of imprisonment that I may find some means of +employment that will bring me in enough money to +keep body and soul together. From this time forward +I am done with stealing. I hope that my right hand +may lose its cunning and my eyes grow dimmer, so +dim that I cannot see anything to steal. I am done, +done with a life of thieving. I don't know how I am +going to exist, but I am not going to steal any more. +By the help of the good Lord I intend to reform.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will +lighten my darkness.—Ps. 18:28.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="What_Is_A_Friend" id="What_Is_A_Friend"></a>What Is A Friend?</h2> + + +<p>A friend is the first person who comes in when the +world has gone out.</p> + +<p>A bank of credit on which we can draw supplies of +confidence, counsel, sympathy, help and love.</p> + +<p>One who considers my need before my deservings.</p> + +<p>The triple alliance of the three great powers—love, +sympathy and help.</p> + +<p>One who understands our silence.</p> + +<p>A jewel whose lustre the strong acids of poverty and +misfortune cannot dim.</p> + +<p>One who smiles on our fortunes, frowns on our +faults, sympathizes with our sorrow, weeps at our bereavement, +and is a safe fortress at all times of +trouble.</p> + +<p>One who, gaining the top of the ladder, won't forget +you if you remain at the bottom.</p> + +<p>The holly of life, whose qualities are overshadowed +in the summer of prosperity, but blossom forth in the +winter of adversity.</p> + +<p>He who does not adhere to the saying that No. 1 +should come first.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in +trouble.—Psalm 41:6.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 275px;"> +<p class="caption">When the author left Louisville to 1905 for Chicago +to be ordained, he was greatly helped by his friend +Chas. F. Grainger, kindness never to be forgotten.</p> +<img src="images/ill-163.jpg" width="275" height="390" alt="HON. CHAS. F. GRAINGER" title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Hon. CHAS. F. GRAINGER</span><br /> +Former Mayor of Louisville; now +President Louisville Water Co.</p> + +<p class="caption">Mr. Grainger says, "Mr. Herr's work among prisoners +has been very successful, and through his +efforts many have reformed."</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span></p> + +<p>A watch which beats true, for all time, and never +"runs down."</p> + +<p>An earthly minister of heavenly happiness.</p> + +<p>A friend is like ivy—the greater the ruin, the closer +he clings.</p> + +<p>One who to himself is true, and therefore must be +so to you.</p> + +<p>The same to-day, the same to-morrow, either in +prosperity, adversity or sorrow.</p> + +<p>One who guards another's interest as his own and +neither flatters nor deceives.</p> + +<p>One truer to me than I am myself.—Exchange.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my +heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength and +my redeemer.—Ps. 19:14.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Another_Chance_I_Crave" id="Another_Chance_I_Crave"></a>"Another Chance I Crave"</h2> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + + +<p>Austin, Tex., Dec. 2.—(Special.)—Jake McKinney, +who was serving a life term in the State penitentiary +at Rusk for the murder of Robert Walker in Jones +county seven years ago, has just received his pardon +from Gov. O. B. Colquitt on the strength of an appeal +for liberty in the form of a poem that he wrote and +sent to the Governor. This poetic application was +turned over to Mrs. Colquitt by the Governor and it +was upon her recommendation that McKinney was +given his liberty. McKinney was twenty-four years +old at the time of his conviction. During the last four +years of his imprisonment he was editor of the prison +newspaper, the Alcalde Chronicle. He attended night +school while in the penitentiary. His poems and articles +in the little newspaper that he published attracted +much favorable attention. His pardon application +reads in part as follows:</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:20em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Another chance, 'tis all I ask,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In freedom's sun again to bask;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">To hear the voice of loved at home,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And amid familiar scenes to roam.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What saith the Scripture? Is it wise<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To gain a world and lose the prize<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of future Joys of Him above,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who came to save because of love<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For sinful men imprisoned here<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In sin's corrupted atmosphere?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Another chance to know the life<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Beyond the cruel prison strife,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where Beauty, Truth and Culture reign,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And pleasure comes from Labor's gain;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To see the golden sun at dawn<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Spring forth to kiss the rural lawn,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Wet with the kiss of midnight dew,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And brightens to a gorgeous hue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To please the eye of all mankind.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A gift of God to man so blind,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Another chance to show the world<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That darkness hid my flag unfurled;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That flame of ingenuity<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Burns brightest where the darkest be;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As all is not as some would tell;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"A soul defiled and booked for hell."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">Another chance I crave of thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, Governor, but feel and set me free!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Make the conditions what you may,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I will live up to them every day;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I have no friends to plead for me,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dear Governor, can't you set me free?<br /></span> +<br /></div></div> + +<div style="text-align:right; margin-top:.7em;"> +<div style="padding-right:10em; font-size:.9em;">Most sincerely</div> +<div><span class="smcap">Jake McKinney.</span></div> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/ill-167.jpg" width="450" height="581" alt="JUDGE AARON KOHN" title="" /> +<p class="caption">JUDGE AARON KOHN<br /> + +One of the greatest criminal lawyers of the American bar. + +There is none in this world who has been a greater friend in my sorest need.</p> +</div> + + + + +<h2><a name="Letter_from_the_Late_Col_Will_S_Hays" id="Letter_from_the_Late_Col_Will_S_Hays"></a>Letter from the Late Col. Will S. Hays</h2> + +<p class="center">Editor, Poet, and Song Writer</p> + + +<p>My Dear Rev. Geo. L. Herr: It is a pleasure to +express the sentiment of pure friendship I have for +you and for the Christian work in which you are now +engaged. Knowing you from boyhood, I am free to +say you are one of God's chosen ones to do his will +and work, and heaven never had a more faithful representative +than yourself. May your words and works +in the Master's cause result in adding souls to the +kingdom of glory, and may God and the angels watch +over and guard you through life is the prayer of your +friend,</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Will S. Hays.</span></p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.—Ps. 19:7.</p> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="The_Late_J_P_Scheider" id="The_Late_J_P_Scheider"></a>The Late J. P. Scheider</h2> + +<p class="center">Captain of Police</p> + + +<p>I have met him at all times and in all places, from +the palace to the prison, striving to better the conditions +of his fellowmen. At the same time serving our +Lord in such a noble manner as to attract the attention +of the least appreciative person. He has taken +for his duty the task of working principally among +the criminal classes that frequent our city prisons, +and to my personal knowledge has done more to benefit +the inmates than any other man of his vocation. +Oh! how far more pleasant this life would be if the +world was full of just such noble, good-spirited men +as my friend George L. Herr, whom I know to be +serving our God in the most appropriate manner +known to mankind.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:5em;">Respectfully,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">John P. Scheider</span></div> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Profanity_Shows_Mental_Deficiency" id="Profanity_Shows_Mental_Deficiency"></a>Profanity Shows Mental Deficiency</h2> + +<p class="mag">[Louisville Herald]</p> + + +<p>The habitual user of profane and indecent language +was mercilessly flayed by Bishop Charles E. Woodcock, +of the Episcopal Church, at the Board of Trade +noon-day Lenten service yesterday, where in the +course of his sermon the Bishop pronounced the profane +man to be intellectually deficient, corrupt, morally +and wholly unchristian.</p> + +<p>"No gentleman will use profane language; it is only +the low-born and vulgar-minded person who will do +so," declared the Bishop. "No man who believes in +God and in God's commandments can be profane."</p> + +<p>Among other things stated by the Bishop of a like +nature are the following:</p> + +<p>"The profane man in God's eyes is on the same +plane as the murderer or thief. He violates the ten +commandments."</p> + +<p>"Swearing, aside from being sinful, is low, vicious, +vulgar and most reprehensible."</p> + +<p>"The man who is well thought of in a community +is nine times out of ten the man who does not curse."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God In +vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh +his name in vain.</p> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/ill-173.jpg" width="275" height="414" alt="Rt. Rev. CHAS. E. WOODCOCK, D.D." title="" /> +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">Rt. Rev. CHAS. E. WOODCOCK, d.d.</span><br /> +Episcopal Bishop of Kentucky</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span></p> + +<p>"The profane man is in many cases and in most +cases the man who will steal, slander, lie and violate +the every commandment of God."</p> + +<p>In beginning his sermon the Bishop spoke of the +work of the noon-day Lenten services. He said in +part:</p> + +<p>"By coming before you men and preaching we rectors +hope to arouse, encourage and bring out all the +good in you. We aim to plant high ideals in your +hearts and make you better men. It is one of the greatest +pleasures I have—preaching these noon-day Lenten +sermons. It is my earnest and sincere wish to do +good and to carry a message to you.</p> + +<p>"Christ will lighten your eyes: He will enable you +to see things worth being and worth doing. The worth +while in life is what makes life worth living. He will +give you a view of yourself. He will make you see +yourselves as others see you. He will not only do this, +but he will set a guard before your lips.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; +my God, my strength, in whom I trust.—Ps. 18:2.</p> +</div> + +<p>"No man ever regretted keeping from impure +speech. Habitual obscene story telling grows like +other vicious habits. It is a manly thing to possess +clean lips. Does not the Bible say, 'Blessed are the +pure in heart?' Well, no man can be pure in heart<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span> +and impure in speech. Would you tell some of the +stories you tell your fellow men to your wives and +daughters? No, I do not think you would. Then say +to yourself, 'Thou God hearest me.'</p> + +<p>"Keep your lips from profanity. The profane man +in God's eyes is on the same plane as is the murderer +and thief. He, like both, violates the ten commandments. +Swearing, aside from being sinful, is low, +vicious and vulgar and most reprehensible. The man +who will curse and swear is in most cases the man +who will steal, slander, lie and violate every commandment +of God.</p> + +<p>"I have been in hotels and in public places where +I have heard men swear as though they thought it a +virtue. These men I find are seldom well thought +of in a community. The man who is well thought of +will not swear.</p> + +<p>"The man who will swear will say mean things +about his friend; he will gossip and slander. If you +keep your lips clean you will never besmirch a man's +or woman's character. You will never speak until +you know it is time; you will be restrained from telling +vicious things, because you will reason whether +or not it is right, and whether or not it ought to be +told."</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: +for your work shall be rewarded.—2 Chron. 15:7.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="At_Cincinnati_Workhouse" id="At_Cincinnati_Workhouse"></a>At Cincinnati Workhouse</h2> + +<p class="mag">[Louisville Times]</p> + + +<p>Never did Mr. Herr have a more interested audience +than greeted him in the Cincinnati work house yesterday +when he preached for an hour in the prison +chapel. The men and women wept as his words +brought conviction to their hearts. Were it not for +this wonderful gospel, said the speaker, he himself +might be as the worst prisoner among them. At the +close of the sermon he asked all those who desired to +lead better lives to bow their heads in prayer, and +almost every man and woman in the chapel fell on +their knees, while the eloquent evangelist lifted his +voice in their behalf. The closest attention was accorded +him during the whole time and when the prisoners +were dismissed and passed out of the chapel +amid a stillness that was very impressive, Mr. Herr +spoke to a great number personally shaking them by +the hand and urging them to repent and believe the +gospel.</p> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Extermination_of_Habitual_Criminals" id="Extermination_of_Habitual_Criminals"></a>Extermination of Habitual Criminals</h2> + + +<p>The extermination of the habitual criminal—his +removal like a weed from a garden—was advocated +today in a startling address made in Minneapolis to +the Interstate Sheriffs' Association by Charles W. +Peters, chief deputy sheriff of Cook County.</p> + +<p>The unexpected suggestion that the man who will +not reform ought to be slain by legal means aroused +much discussion in Chicago among ministers, lawyers +and laymen.</p> + +<p>Leniency for first offenders, parole for the worthy, +an adult probation law, were advocated by Mr. Peters, +who then insisted that in cases where life has proved +a failure, where efforts of reformation have been ineffectual +and the criminal is a body sore on the social +system, that extermination should be resorted to.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Only One True Reform.</p> + +<p>Furthermore, he created intense surprise by his +assertion that in twenty years' experience in handling +criminals he could recall only one case of true reformation +on the part of an "habitual."</p> + +<table width="100%" summary="Whitman"> +<tr> +<td align="center"><img src="images/ill-180a.jpg" width="280" height="385" alt="The Hon. and Mrs. JOHN L. WHITMAN, Chicago, Ill." title="" /></td> +<td align="center"><img src="images/ill-180b.jpg" width="266" height="400" alt="The Hon. and Mrs. JOHN L. WHITMAN, Chicago, Ill." title="" /></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p class="caption"><span class="smcap">The Hon. and Mrs. JOHN L. WHITMAN, Chicago, Ill.</span><br /> + +Mr. Whitman is Superintendent of the Bridewell. They have been friends to +thousands in need of friends.</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill-181.jpg" width="600" height="256" alt="Gospel Service at the County Jail, Chicago, Ill." title="" /> +<p class="caption">Gospel Service at the County Jail, Chicago, Ill.</p> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p> + +<p>In his address to the Association, Mr. Peters recommended +various ways of dealing with crime and its +perpetrators, and then for the irredeemably incorrigible +made this recommendation:</p> + +<p>"And then if they fail to embrace the many opportunities +offered them, and after everything has +been done that is possible for mankind to do, they repeatedly +persist in returning to their old ways, I +think in such a case life has proven a failure, and +they become a menace and a burden to our social welfare +and should be exterminated.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Like Weeds in a Garden.</p> + +<p>"They are like weeds in a garden and unless removed +will supersede the useful plants.</p> + +<p>"Many students of criminology have suggested life +imprisonment, but in my opinion that has proven a +failure. By that method the menace is removed, but +the burden remains.</p> + +<p>"I am sorry to acknowledge that in the twenty odd +years of my experience in the handling of criminals +I can recall only one case of true reformation on the +part of habitual criminals, and that man is employed +in a bridge works, where it would be impossible for +him to carry anything off."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sect">"Judge Not," Says Pastor.</p> + +<p>Among the ministers who commented on the startling +theory of extermination were:</p> + +<p>Rev. P. J. O'Callaghan, pastor of St. Mary's +Church and the priest who saved Herman Billik +from the gallows—What is man that he should put +himself in judgment on a fellow and say that the culprit +is beyond reformation and redemption and slay +him? Man is too fallible to condemn another as an +habitual criminal and exterminate him. No one knows +when a man has passed beyond the pale of reform. As +a matter of fact, many and many a criminal branded +as 'habitual' has been saved to a useful life. I most +heartily disagree with any suggestion to execute any +man on the theory that he is irredeemable.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Hope While There Is Life.</p> + +<p>Rabbi Tobias Scharfarber—In the first place I am +opposed to capital punishment, but, in any event, I +should not agree with this suggestion of Mr. Peters. +It is much like Osler's plan to kill off men of +sixty or more years of age, or Ingersoll's suggestion +that when a man believed himself to be a failure and +useless to the world he should go and shoot his brains +out. While a man lives there is hope for him, and no<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> +one has either power or right to say that he will always +be a menace to society.</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:24em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Christ in His charity taught those who came to Him,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Ill deeds should pardoned be seventy times seven;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Succor the least here and you do the same to Him;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">These are his precepts on earth and in heaven.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, then, when laboring hard for humanity,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Never believe that your labor is vain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Kindness will conquer the criminal insanity;<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Speak to him gently and try him again."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<hr /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Criminal_Becomes_Minister" id="Criminal_Becomes_Minister"></a>Criminal Becomes Minister</h2> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + + +<p>"Do you know who I am?" once said a person in +the jail here to the Rev. George L. Herr, prison evangelist. +"I will tell you. I am the worst and most +treacherous man in this prison." Then the Rev. Mr. +Herr says he told him the story of his fearful crimes. +"I have been in prison North, South, East and West, +I have been in the dismal, solitary cell for one year, +have been put in large tanks of ice water, have been +punished over and over again, but it has always made +me more of a demon. Would you like to know what +the officer who last locked me up said about me?"</p> + +<p>"'Take him and lock him up like a brute beast, for +that is what he is.'"</p> + +<p>Then he turned and said: "Do you think there is +any hope for me?" "I was at once on ground where +I could speak without hesitation," said Mr. Herr, +"and I told him simply that if he was through with an +evil life, if he was tired of wrong-doing and was determined +to do right, there was a love that could forgive +him, and a power that could help and keep him in the +future. When at last we knelt together there I prayed +that God, who could bring light into our darkness, +might dispel the thick clouds that had shut in this<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> +soul from hope, and bring to him the revelation that +would change his life. There were tears in our eyes +as we parted, and, taking my hand in his he said: "I +will try, Brother Herr."</p> + +<p>"He did try, and, more than that he conquered. At +first it was a stern battle of an awakened will and conscience +fighting against desperate odds. The feeling +that friends were watching and waiting anxiously for +good reports proved an undoubted incentive. It was +not long before he sought and found Christ as his +Saviour, and he became an earnest Christian, and to-day +is an ordained Methodist minister, at the head of +a great rescue work in an Eastern city, and also chaplain +of a model penal institution."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"For God so loved the world that he gave his only +begotten son, that whosoever believeth on him should +not perish, but have everlasting life."—John 3:16.</p> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="To_Brother_George_L_Herr" id="To_Brother_George_L_Herr"></a>To Brother George L. Herr</h2> + +<p class="byline">By Joseph M. McGuire</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The days are long and dreary,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And the hours go slowly by,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While the prisoner, sad and weary,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Longs for the time to fly.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But one brings joy and sunshine<br /></span> +<span class="i1">To the prisoners sad at heart,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And it is but a short time<br /></span> +<span class="i1">'Till with him we'll have to part.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We cannot find another,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Search, I care not where,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who will do as much for a brother<br /></span> +<span class="i1">As our Bro. George L. Herr.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">He comes early in the morning,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And never leaves till night;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He always seems untiring,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Helping wayward men do right.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He is always up and willing<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whene'er a prisoner call,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To go and do the bidding<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of a man behind the wall.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And then there is another,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Who shares his joy and strife;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span><br /></span> +<span class="i0">She is called by the prisoners "Mother,"<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And is Bro. Herr's good wife.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Early Sunday morning,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In rain, snow, sleet, or hail,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">You will find him holding meeting<br /></span> +<span class="i1">In the Jefferson County Jail.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I love to hear him tell the story<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Of the "Prodigal Son,"<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And of the "Mighty Prince of Glory,"<br /></span> +<span class="i1">From whom salvation sprung.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Round his good face there seems a halo,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">His work is for One on high,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He makes sunshine out of sorrow,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Whenever he is nigh.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Success_of_Reformed_Criminals" id="Success_of_Reformed_Criminals"></a>Success of Reformed Criminals</h2> + +<p class="sub">After Blotting Out the Past</p> + + +<p>"Once a Thief, Always a Thief," has been disproved +in thousands of cases according to Mr. William +A. Pinkerton.</p> + +<p>"Do criminals ever reform, really turn over a new +leaf and become good citizens?"</p> + +<p>I fired the question at random, little dreaming what +a wealth of interesting and convincing anecdote it +would evoke. I expected the time honored cynical +reply, something to the effect of "Once a thief, always +a thief," But I was disappointed—agreeably +disappointed. For my answer was a quick, emphatic, +earnest "Yes."</p> + +<p>And the man who said "Yes" was William A. Pinkerton, +and he knows.</p> + +<p>Probably no living man knows more intimate details +about the individual members of the underworld, +those who are active criminals to-day, as well as the +notorious crooks of the past, than the head of the +Pinkerton Detective Agency. And every crook will +tell you, what every honest man who knows Mr. Pinkerton +will tell you, that when he says "Yes" there<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> +is no possibility that the correct answer should be +"No."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/ill-191.jpg" width="400" height="629" alt="WILLIAM A. PINKERTON" title="" /> +<p class="caption">WILLIAM A. PINKERTON<br /> +Head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency +New York</p> +</div> + +<p>"I know what the average man thinks—that a real +crook never turns straight. But it isn't so. Thousands +of crooks—and I don't mean one-time offenders, +but men in the class we call hardened criminals—have +become honest men to my knowledge. It is not +true, as some recent writer said, that as many crooks +turn honest as there are honest men turn crooked, +but I believe that one of the reasons is that so few men +are willing to lend a helping hand. I don't mean +that every crook is ready to reform if he is encouraged, +but I do mean that society makes it hard for +any man who has once been a criminal to lead an +honest life.</p> + +<p>"And I'll tell you another thing," continued Mr. +Pinkerton: "I'm prouder of the fact that I have +helped a few criminals to become honest men than of +all the work I have done in putting criminals behind +the bars. I'm proud of the fact that every crook +knows that Pinkerton will deal squarely with him if +he will deal squarely with Pinkerton—that I believe +it is as important to keep faith with a bank thief as +with a bank president.</p> + +<p>"I know a score of business men in Chicago—not +saloonkeepers, but reputable merchants—who have +criminal records. These men have done time and have<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span> +paid their debt to society for their crimes. I cannot +tell you their names, for it would be unfair to them +and to their wives and families, many of whom have +no suspicion that there is anything wrong in the pasts +of their husbands and fathers. Besides, when society +discovers that a man is a former criminal it is not content +to cancel the debt no matter how much imprisonment +at hard labor the former crook may have +given in expiation of his sin.</p> + +<p>"I know men in trusted positions in New York who +were convicts. In many cases only the man himself +and his employer know the secret and sometimes the +employer does not know it. I know men scattered all +over the West—business men, professional men, many +of them wealthy and prominent citizens—who have +seen the inside of Joliet, Moyomensing, Sing Sing or +Leavenworth. They have sons and daughters who +never have suspected and never will suspect the truth.</p> + +<p>"These are good men—as good men as any living. +They have turned away from their old ways, in many +cases have changed their names, and who shall say +they are not as much to be respected as the honest +man who never was tempted, never was forced into +crime? I'll tell you about some of them.</p> + +<p>"When I was a boy in Chicago there were two +brothers, neighbors, about the age of myself and my +younger brother, and we were friends. When the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span> +civil war broke out I went into the army secret service +at the age of fifteen, and the older of these two +boys, John, enlisted in an Illinois regiment. Jerry, +the younger, was not old enough, but a little later, +when the government began offering a bounty for +soldiers, he became a bounty jumper. He would enlist, +get the bounty money, then desert and enlist over +again under another name. He was with a band of +young fellows who were engaged in that way of getting +easy money, and who found it so easy that they +turned to other kinds of crime.</p> + +<p>"When the war was over John came back to Chicago +and settled down as a rather plodding sort of +a mechanic. He tried to get Jerry to straighten out, +but the younger brother was too far along the road +to prison.</p> + +<p>"In those days the Northwestern Railroad used +wood for fuel, and the wood agent of the road was +Amos Snell—the same Snell who was later murdered +by 'Willie Tascott.' He lived in a suburb of Chicago, +and one night Jerry and his crowd went out +there and 'stuck' up the whole family—robbed them +of everything they had. John was along with them, +lying in the bottom of the hack. The police got a clew +through the hack-driver and rounded up the whole +band. All of them, including John, were sentenced to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> +five years each except Jerry. When he came into the +hands of the police a citizen who had been held up +on the street some time before identified him as the +hold-up man, and on the strength of that the Judge +gave him fifteen years. It was an unjust sentence, +for Jerry had not committed the hold-up—that was +found out later.</p> + +<p>"Well, John's old Colonel and some other army +men and my father got together and got a pardon for +John, who had merely gone along with the crowd and +had taken no part in the robbery. He went back to +work at his trade of brass finisher, but Jerry stayed +in Joliet, rebelling against those long unjust years of +his sentence.</p> + +<p>Jerry was put to work in the engine room of the +prison and soon displayed great aptitude for machinery. +He served out his term with time off for good +behavior and finally got out. I met him in Chicago. +He was despondent. He felt that he had no chance +to be anything but a crook, but he knew the terrible +chances a once convicted man runs if he returns to +crime. I told him the best thing for him to do was +to go to New York, and I sent him on to my brother +Robert, who had also known him as a boy.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sect">Reform of Jerry.</p> + +<p>"Now, here's a part of this story that will interest +you. Robert had a friend who was chief engineer of +a building in Ann street. He told this friend about +Jerry, and the engineer said he'd take a chance on +him. He put Jerry to work stoking the boiler at a +dollar and a half a day. After a year or so there was +a vacancy and Jerry became assistant engineer. A +little while later the chief engineer resigned and Jerry +after awhile, the ex-crook, became chief engineer. He +left there after awhile to take charge of a big plant +on Long Island, and he sent for his brother John and +gave him a job.</p> + +<p>"A few years later the two brothers called on me +in Chicago. They had saved about $6,000 between +them and were on their way to a new town in the +West to start a manufacturing business of their own. +Each had married a girl who knew nothing of their +prison record and had children. They prospered exceedingly. +John died several years ago, but only a +few months ago, when my brother Robert died, an old +man, whom nobody but myself recognized, came from +the West for the funeral and shed tears at the grave. +It was Jerry. He is still living, and is the leading +citizen of his town and worth at least half a million +dollars.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Criminals who reform? There are thousands of +them. I remember a little Liverpool Irishman who +was a pickpocket around New York. He was known +as 'Jimmy the Nibbler'. The police picked him up in +Tennessee, where he lifted somebody's pocketbook, +and he was sent to Nashville for seven years. In the +prison they put him to work in the hospital. Then +the cholera epidemic broke out. "Jim" helped the +doctors and nurses, and when the doctors got sick +he nursed them and the warden and his family and +helped save a good many lives. After the epidemic +was over the warden and the Prison Board were so +grateful they got "Jim" a pardon and made up a +purse of $350 for him. With the money in his pocket +he came right to Chicago to see me. I began to +lecture him on the futility of going back to the life he +had led before.</p> + +<p>"'I've cut that all out,' he said. 'I'm not going to +be a gun any more. I've been studying medicine +down there in Nashville. The doctors have been telling +me things and giving me medical books to read +and now I want to get into one of these colleges where +I can get a diploma quick.'</p> + +<p>"There were a number of diploma factories, as the +lower class of medical colleges were called, running +in Chicago then, and Jim found he had money<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> +enough to go through one of them—in the front door +and out the back. But he got his diploma and license +to practise and started for one of the new towns in the +West. I looked him up a while ago. He comes pretty +near being the most prominent citizen in the town. +He is a director in a national bank and the leading +physician, and has officiated at the births of half the +present population. Moreover, he is an enthusiastic +church member. But how long do you think it would +take for the whole town to turn against him if they +should ever learn out there that he is 'Jimmy the Nibbler'?</p> + +<p>"Crooks that turn straight? Your next door neighbor, +your family physician, even your clergyman, may +be one of them. The world is full of them. There +was one man, a professional thief, a fellow who had +done time in half a dozen State prisons and penitentiaries, +whom I used to labor with earnestly every +time he got out, but he apparently never tried to reform. +He was always doing time, it seemed.</p> + +<p>"I lost track of him for several years. Then two +years ago, when the National Association of Chiefs +of Police was in session in Buffalo, I found a note in +my box in my hotel signed by this man's name. He +said he was going to call at seven o'clock. There was +a banquet on for that evening, and hundreds of police<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> +officials from every part of the United States were +there. I wondered if he knew what sort of a lion's +den he was walking into. Sure enough he came into +the hotel and spoke to me.</p> + +<p>"'Don't you know that you are surrounded by +policemen, some of whom are sure to spot you?' I +asked him.</p> + +<p>"'You're the only man in the world who knows +me,' he said, 'My name now is So and So'—giving me +another name—'and I'm a respected and prosperous +man. I just wanted to let you know before you +found it out for yourself, for I knew you'd be on the +square with me.' And I was. So far as I knew he +was not wanted for anything, and what good would +have come of exposing him?</p> + +<p>"Thieves who resist the temptation to steal? Hundreds +of them. There's one right here, only a few +blocks from where we are talking. He's the watchman +in a big silk warehouse—and if there's anything +your professional thief likes to steal, short of money +or diamonds, it's silk, for you can get so much value +into so small a package. This man was a professional +safe blower, and did several big jobs. When he got +out of prison I helped him to get the job he has now. +His employer knows his record. I told it to him on +the man's own request. When work stops for the day<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> +this man is left alone in charge of hundreds of thousands +of dollars worth of valuable silks. He isn't +bonded, for he couldn't get a bondsman if he wanted +to. He has held the job seven years now, and not a +cent's worth has been taken from the warehouse in +that time.</p> + +<p>"You may say that he does not dare to steal—that +he knows a single false move on his part will bring +instant punishment. But I say he has no desire to +steal—that he has reformed. And thousands of other +criminals would reform if society would give them +half a chance.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Baffling Hotel Robberies.</p> + +<p>"Several years ago there was a series of hotel robberies +in New York that baffled the police. The thief +always worked with keys, opening doors and then unlocking +baggage left in rooms, and he always got away +with the goods. At last one night the word came to +headquarters that a man had been caught in one of +the big hotels who was suspected of being the author +of all the robberies. I was visiting Chief Devery at +the time and he asked me to go with him to the West +Thirtieth street station to look the man over.</p> + +<p>"The man arrested was a well dressed, respectable +looking little man, with a white beard—the last man +who would be taken for a thief if seen in a hotel corridor.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> +His face was vaguely familiar to me, but I +had some difficulty in placing him. Finally it struck +me. I had seen him nearly thirty years before on the +occasion of a big prize fight in New Orleans, when he +had been arrested for the same trick. It came over me +like a flash and I told him I knew him.</p> + +<p>"'What's the use of making trouble?' he asked. +'These fools don't know anything about me unless +you put them wise.'</p> + +<p>"I told Chief Devery what I remembered about the +man, who protested violently that he had never been +in New Orleans in his life. Then another thought +struck me.</p> + +<p>"'You've been in New Orleans more than once,' I +said. 'The last time was about six months ago, when +you got Denman Thompson's diamonds in the St. +Charles Hotel.' I remembered the report of that case, +but it was a chance shot on my part, for no one had +seen the thief. The old fellow denied this vigorously.</p> + +<p>"He was wearing a new derby hat. I don't know +what impulse prompted me, but I took the hat off +his head and looked inside. It bore the mark of a +New Orleans hatter.</p> + +<p>"The Chief and I left the station and had just +turned into Sixth avenue when I remembered the old +fellow's name. We went back to the station house<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> +and I confronted him again. I told him his name. He +denied that it was his.</p> + +<p>"'What's the use of making trouble, Mr. Pinkerton?' +he pleaded. His inadvertent use of my name, +which had not been mentioned there, gave him away.</p> + +<p>"'I don't know what kind of a case the police here +have on you,' I told him, 'but we are retained by the +Jewelers' Protective Association, and if you get after +any jewelry drummers I'll make it hot for you.' And +as a precaution I got his photograph from the New +York police. They didn't have much of a case on him +and he got off.</p> + +<p>"Not long after a jewelry drummer was robbed in +a Chicago hotel of about three thousand dollars' +worth of diamonds which he had carelessly left in his +grip instead of putting them in the safe. The same +day a friend of mine who was stopping in another +hotel lost his new overcoat and told me about it. I +thought of the old man in the first job, and found a +chambermaid and bellboy who had seen him on the +floor, but didn't connect him with the second because +he had never stolen anything but very valuable articles, +so far as I knew. My friend had to leave for +New York that night, and some time in the evening +I got a telegram from him which had been filed in +Fort Wayne.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span></p> + +<p>"'Positive man who got my coat is in same sleeper, +ticketed to New York,' it read. I wired my friend at +a point further along the line to get off at Pittsburg +and hold a white handkerchief in his hand so he +could be identified and be prepared to point out the +thief. Then I got in touch with Pittsburg by wire, +and sure enough back came a wire after a while to +the effect that they had got the man, whom my friend +identified, and found on him besides the overcoat +about $3,000 worth of diamonds. I asked for a description +and the one they wired fitted that of the +man I had seen in New York. I referred Pittsburg +to the man's photograph, which had been published +that week in a police periodical, and they were sure +they had the same man. And so it proved. He was +brought back to Chicago and convicted of the jewelry +theft. He served a short sentence, and when he +got out he came to me.</p> + +<p>"Mind you, this was an old man, who had been a +thief all his life—I had known him as a thief more +than thirty years before. It is criminals of that kind +that are commonly regarded as the most difficult to +reform, but even hardened and lifelong offenders like +this man will go straight if they get the right kind +of encouragement. I found this old man apparently +anxious to be honest, but he had never had a chance<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> +after his first slip as a young man. I determined to +do what I could for him and I got him a job in New +York. He is more than seventy years old now, but +he is still holding that job, and he hasn't made a false +step since he got out of prison the last time.</p> + +<p>"Do criminals ever reform? I think I have told +you enough to prove that they do—and I could tell +you of hundreds of other instances if you needed any +further proof."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + + + + +<p class="sect"><a name="A_LETTER_FROM_EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_OF_THE_STAR" id="A_LETTER_FROM_EDITOR-IN-CHIEF_OF_THE_STAR"></a>A LETTER FROM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE "STAR +OF HOPE" PAPER PUBLISHED IN SING SING PRISON.</p> + + +<p class="date">Ossining, N. Y., April 9, 1906.</p> + + +<p>Dear Brother Herr:</p> + +<p>Your book, "Light in Dark Places," received. I +do so much appreciate your kindness in remembering +poor me in durance. I not only voice the sentiments +expressed in this precious book, but add thereto my +message of Christ's power to cleanse the wicked one +and bring back into God's path the weak and unfortunate. +May God spare you and yours many years, +and give you manifold blessings in your great work.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:5em;">Sincerely yours,</div> +<div style="padding-right:6em;">54179,</div> +<div>Editor in Chief.</div> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Lost_and_Is_Found" id="Lost_and_Is_Found"></a>"Lost and Is Found"</h2> + +<p class="sub">Noted Prison Worker issues an Interesting Book</p> + +<p class="mag">(Louisville Herald)</p> + + +<p>An interesting booklet containing the sermon "Lost +and Is Found," the newest publication of the Rev. +George L. Herr, the noted prison evangelist whose +home is in this city, has just been issued from the +press. The sermon is one of the strongest yet issued +by the Rev. Herr, and is written in the characteristic +vein which marks all those issued by the prison +worker.</p> + +<p>Rev. Herr holds a unique position in the evangelistic +field. He is considered the greatest evangelist +among prisoners in the United States. Scarcely a +big prison in the country has not been visited by him +in his work, and the number of men in stripes who +have been reformed by the indefatigable prison worker +reaches into thousands.</p> + +<p>Some of the most notable redemptions of so-called +"hardened criminals" known to evangelistic work +have been accomplished by the Rev. Herr. All of the +booklets by him have been extensively read and +quoted, and it is probable none will attract more interest +than that which has just been issued by him.</p> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Christmas_at_Frankfort_Prison" id="Christmas_at_Frankfort_Prison"></a>Christmas at Frankfort Prison</h2> + + +<p>The prisoners had what was unanimously voted the +best Christmas dinner in many years. There were +1100 lbs. of turkey, cranberries, mashed potatoes, +oranges, and bananas. There were about 75 fine +cakes, 68 of which were sent from Lexington by Mrs. +Frances H. Beauchamp, Pres. W. C. T. U. The entire +dinner was well cooked and heartily enjoyed by all.</p> + +<p>At 11:30, Bro. Jos. Severance, Chaplain, Bro. Geo. +L. Herr, of Louisville, Mrs. M. B. R. Day, of Frankfort, +and Miss Nellie E. Williams, Junior C. E. Superintendent, +of Maysville, entered, and took seats on the +stage; these are four of our truest and strongest +friends and are most heartily welcomed.</p> + +<p>Bro. Severance opened the services by reading the +Christmas lesson, i. e., the 2nd chapter of Matthew, +which gives the most beautiful description of the birth +of the lowly Jesus.</p> + +<p>Bro. Herr then offered a fervent prayer.</p> + +<p>Bro. Severance' remarks were few; he is still grieving +over the loss of his two children, and simply said +that this Christmas had lost all of its charms for him, +for instead of feeling joyful, he felt sad all of to-day +and yesterday, and that we understood why, for instead<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> +of four little girls, he had only two. He felt +his inability to proceed further, and gave the meeting +over into the hands of Bro. Herr to conduct as he +saw fit, and catching an idea from the foregoing remarks, +Bro. Herr referred to the fact that years ago, +Christmas was very sad to him. That he was lying +in a saloon in the city of Louisville without friends +and without hope. Then in a jovial manner showed +by comparison what a difference then and now.</p> + +<p>He then said: "I am so glad that Jesus said: +'Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out; +I am so glad that he is the same yesterday, to-day and +forever. He said: 'Follow me, and I will make you +fishers of men. There is not a man behind prison bars +that Jesus Christ cannot clean up and make him a +man."</p> + +<p>The audience sat up and took notice when he mentioned +a man who had been a homeless wretch, and +a degraded sinner, who had spent thirty-two years +of his life behind prison bars, but had been converted +in the Louisville jail and was now a man of +God, the leader in a Rescue Mission in one of our +largest cities, and had the financial support of eight +of the wealthiest men in that city. He said that +whenever a man goes blind, or deaf, or is afflicted in +any other way, he is sent to a hospital for treatment,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> +and that this prison is a sort of hospital, and that +some of us are so blind that we cannot tell the difference +between our own and other peoples' horses. This +simile was put forth in such a humorous manner as +to cause much laughter.</p> + +<p>He then launched into an earnest exhortation to +the men to do better. To quit their meanness, as Sam +Jones said. "Cease from evil and learn to do well." +That to quit one's evil ways was only half the duty, +and that the remainder consisted in doing the right +thing, and you may have this assurance that the man +who is serving the Lord will not get into trouble. +"An idle mind is the devil's work-shop." In this +connection he gave a very pretty illustration of how +one's energies are used in either the right way or +wrong way; that if you build a fire under a steam +boiler, place the proper quantity of water in it, and +then open the throttle and allow the steam to get into +the engine, the entire machinery will perform a good +work, but if you shut off the steam and tie down the +safety valve, the steam is going to exert itself in a +disastrous manner by an explosion, and the killing +of several men.</p> + +<p>"The wages of sin is death, and if you can only +open your eyes and see that, you can also see that +"The gift of God is eternal life." The only way<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span> +under heaven by which a man can be saved, is to +come over to the service of God and begin to do that +which is right.</p> + +<p>Now what is the purpose of Christmas day? The +world has agreed that this is as near the birth of +Christ as we can possibly figure it; it means that 1907 +years ago Jesus was born into the world, and the +star of Bethlehem came and stood over the place +where the young child lay; the angels sang "Glory +to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will +towards men," and we celebrate the day in memory +of that event.</p> + +<p>What is the trouble to-day that causes all these +penitentiaries over our land; why all these jails and +the strong arm of the law? It is because men will +not allow the gospel of Jesus Christ to reign in their +hearts. As long as the children of Israel served the +Lord, they were happy and prosperous, but as soon +as they turned to the flesh pots of Egypt, they began +to despair and shame came upon them.</p> + +<p>If you were asked what you would rather have +above all things, you would say, Just a piece of paper +with the great seal of the state impressed upon it, and +the signature of the Governor attached. Why? Because +prison life is a hard life and you are tired of +it. If I were a prisoner, I would want to make my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> +confinement as pleasant as possible and I would become +converted immediately, for of all men on earth +the man in prison should be the quickest to accept +Jesus Christ. I would not want to be a prisoner all my +physical life, and then a spiritual prisoner throughout +eternity. Did it ever occur to you that hell must +be infinitely worse than it is pictured? We read of +a place "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is +not quenched." If this is a picture of hell, then +what must the reality be? There is a chance for every +man to get out of this prison, but there will be no +chance whatever to get out of hell.</p> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the +Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the +meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to +proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the +prison to them that are bound.—Isa. 61:1.</p> +</div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Oh, my friend, there is hope,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will you come this hour;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For Jesus is yours<br /></span> +<span class="i1">With all His Power;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Look upward, not back.<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Or in, or around;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But up to Christ,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Where hope is found.<br /></span> +</div> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Hundreds_of_Letters" id="Hundreds_of_Letters"></a>Hundreds of Letters</h2> + +<p class="sub">Below appear but a few of the Hundreds of Letters we have +received from those Helped by Our Work</p> + + +<p>If you have asked the question, "Does it pay to +labor among the fallen ones in prison—are the results +from this work permanent in character?" let the answer +be found in these letters. They come from +writers' spontaneous offerings of gratitude, who have +been restored to society as useful respected citizens:</p> + +<p style="margin-top:2em;">My Dearest Friend: It is very gratifying to find +myself alone long enough to pen you a few lines.</p> + +<p>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.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div>I am affectionately yours,</div> +<div style="padding-right:4em;">W.</div> +</div> + + + + +<p class="sect"><a name="A_TRIBUTE_FROM_JOS_M_OHARA" id="A_TRIBUTE_FROM_JOS_M_OHARA"></a>A TRIBUTE FROM JOS. M. O'HARA.</p> + + +<p>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<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The writer of this article through her kind and encouraging +words, has been led from the error of his +way, and to take up again the thread laid down in +early years; has realized that though the fruitage of +the tragic and pathetic life that ended in the ignominious +death of Him who was the grandest character, +the most sublime ideal and the highest type of humanity +the world has ever seen—Jesus of Nazareth—we +can, if we come with faith and hope, be cleansed from +our sins and iniquities. May the Omnipotent God, +who holds the destiny of nations, pour out his blessings +upon this saintly woman and her noble hearted +husband and guide them through long and honored +days, and when the "shadows of even" gather and +the sun of life is setting, show them in the darkness +of the end, "words of light we never saw by day."</p> + +<p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Jos. M. O'Hara.</span></p> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p> +<p class="sect"><a name="FISHING_FOR_MEN" id="FISHING_FOR_MEN"></a>FISHING FOR MEN.</p> + + +<p>Dear Brother Herr: We, as prisoners in the Jefferson +County Jail, desire, for your encouragement, +and because it is the spontaneous expression of our +hearts, to thank you for your continued, untiring and +unselfish devotion to our interests, spiritual and temporal. +We desire in this manner to show you and the +public that we thoroughly appreciate the efforts of +those who try to draw us from the broad road of vice +and crime into the narrow path of virtue where we are +satisfied alone peace and happiness can be found. +Many persons, Bro. Herr, who have attempted the +task of rescuing the fallen have become discouraged +and given up the work because they could see no good +resulting from their efforts. Those persons had not +the faith to continue their work and leave results with +God. A prisoner who was an inmate of this jail several +years ago recently found himself again an inmate, +and expressed surprise at the changed tone, as it +were, of the jail, and he laughingly asked if the world +was getting better, for he said the men now in jail +were more refined in their conversation, more unselfish +in their actions toward each other, and of a higher +moral tone generally. What this man said is undoubtedly<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span> +true, and it is the result of the efforts of yourself +and other Christian workers who do not become weary +in well-doing. But it is you, Brother Herr, whom we +especially desire to thank, because you are with us +daily and no day passes that you do not perform some +act of kindness for some one of our number, who, but +for you, would have no friend. That perfect man, +Jesus of Nazareth, has said, "by their fruits ye shall +know them," and it is by this standard we as prisoners +have measured you and have not found you +wanting. You have gained our confidence and we +have proved your sincerity and we love you, Brother +Herr, because you daily prove your love for us. Prisoners +are naturally inclined to suspect the sincerity of +those who profess an interest in their welfare, but +when once you gain their confidence they are teachable.</p> + +<p>A London lawyer who wrote the tragedy "Ion" +makes one of his characters say, "It is but a little +thing to speak a word of kindness which by daily use +has almost lost its sense, but on the ear of him who +thought to die unmourned will fall like sweetest +music." Many are the words of kindness which daily +fall from your lips, by which we are soothed and +blessed, and we firmly believe that they do not fall +upon stony ground and that the good God will reward<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span> +you in his own good time with a bountiful harvest +of redeemed lives.</p> + +<div style="width:auto; height:10em;"> +<div class="center">Your grateful friends,</div> +<div style="width:auto; height:6.5em;"> +<div style="width: 10em; height:6em; float:right;"> +<div><span class="smcap">James L. Doran</span></div> +<div><span class="smcap">Harry Graven</span></div> +<div><span class="smcap">John Carter</span></div> +<div><span class="smcap">Jos. M. O'hara</span></div> +<div><span class="smcap">Julius Phillips</span></div> +</div></div> +<div style="text-align:right;">Committee of Prisoners of Jefferson County Jail.</div> +</div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/ill-217.jpg" width="600" height="342" alt="LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY—MAIN BUILDING" title="" /> +<span class="caption">LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY—MAIN BUILDING<br /> +Branch of this Library in the County Jail.</span> +</div> + + + + +<p class="chp_a"><a name="Branch_Library_in_the_Jail" id="Branch_Library_in_the_Jail"></a>Branch Library in the Jail</p> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + + +<p>Prison libraries are nearly always more or less poor, +indefinite sort of affairs, with a questionable lot of +reading matter, mostly paper-backs and second-hand +magazines, forming its contents. But the Jefferson +county jail has marked a departure from the routine +of prison life in the establishment of a library station +for its inmates.</p> + +<p>This little institution is a remarkable affair. Mrs. +Chester Mayer is responsible for its organization. +Mrs. Mayer is a member of the visiting board at the +county jail, and noticing the absence of good reading +matter, the continual idling of prisoners, she took up +the matter with Jailer John R. Pflanz, who approved +the idea of a library station. Then she approached +her husband, Dr. Mayer, a member of the Board of +Trustees of the Louisville Free Public Library.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></p> + +<p>When George T. Settle, the recently elected librarian, +was approached, he gave his hearty consent. One +hundred volumes were sent immediately for the men's +department and fifty for the women prisoners. The +books were selected by Miss Annie V. Pollard, former +acting librarian, who gave considerable time to a +study of the most desirable literature. The books sent +were non-denominational, nonpolitical, and mostly fiction, +works of the popular authors, but nothing too +heavy for the mental appetite of the inmates. The +books were taken from the open-shelf room.</p> + +<p>As these books are used they are changed. Since +the establishment of the jail library station the circulation +has reached 2,000 books. Of course, the same +book is read by nearly all the regular borrowers.</p> + +<p>An interesting sight is presented when the prisoners +are at liberty in the open places at the jail. About +75 per cent. of the prisoners can read. The other 25 +per cent. gather about an appointed reader, who reads +aloud.</p> + +<p>How much better is this for those unfortunates than +idling their time, brooding, planning evil deeds, perhaps, +or thinking criminal thoughts!</p> + +<p>The Rev. George L. Herr, prison evangelist, is in +charge of the work and he and Jailer Pflanz have +made it a success.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/ill-221.jpg" width="500" height="645" alt="CURTIS JETT" title="" /> +<p class="caption">CURTIS JETT<br /> + +How he found God, he tells you in his own words. God bless Curt, and +give him the desires of his heart, is the prayer of the Author.</p> +</div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p> +<p class="sect"><a name="CHANGE_COMES_IN_CURT_JETT" id="CHANGE_COMES_IN_CURT_JETT"></a>CHANGE COMES IN CURT JETT.</p> + +<p class="mag">[Courier-Journal]</p> + + +<p>Frankfort, Ky., March 14.—(Special.)—Although +he is serving two life sentences for murder, Curt Jett, +"the wild dog of the mountains," has not yet abandoned +hope of getting a pardon and being given another +chance to show that his reformation has been +sincere and final. He says that God has pardoned him +for his crimes and he thinks the Governor ought to.</p> + +<p>"The best thing ever happened to me was when I +was sent to the penitentiary," said Jett last night in +his cell in the prison here as he was talking to some +newspaper men, who were inside the cellhouse for another +purpose than talking to Jett. "I realize that +I never would have been reformed but for being put +in here," continued Jett. "I only wish that they +would give me another chance to show that I really +have changed my ways."</p> + + +<p class="sect">License To Teach Sunday-School.</p> + +<p>Jett showed the newspaper men who had stopped to +talk to him, when they saw him lying on his cot reading, +a certificate from the International Sunday-school +League entitling him to teach in a Sunday-school. He +was prouder of that than he ever was of his ability to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> +shoot and he showed it with great pride. Jett recently +wrote out his religious experiences for the Rev. Geo. +L. Herr, the prison evangelist, and last night Jett +said he would give the story to the newspapers if Col. +E. E. Mudd, the prison warden, had no objections. +Col. Mudd was with the newspaper men and readily +consented to Jett giving out the story. He had written +it with a pencil and gave it to the newspaper men, +desiring that it be published.</p> + +<p>Jett's cell is covered with pictures, most of them +selected with care as to their beauty, and he has shown +taste in arranging them. One of the newspaper men +remarked on the decorations in the cell last night and +Jett said:</p> + +<p>"Yes, it cheers this cell up a little and makes it +brighter."</p> + + +<p class="sect">Expression On Face Changed.</p> + +<p>Even the expression of Jett's face has changed and +he has none of that hard look that he used to wear. +He is bright and cheerful and Col. Mudd says there +is not a better prisoner in the penitentiary than Jett. +Col. Mudd said that he could not say that Jett's conversion +was genuine from a religious standpoint, but +he says Jett has certainly changed inside the prison. +The Rev. Joseph Severance, the prison chaplain, says<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> +that Jett is one of the best Bible scholars he ever saw +and knows more about the Bible than many earnest +church workers.</p> + +<p>In his story which he gave out last night Jett freely +admits his guilt of the crimes that are charged against +him. He added, when he said that it was a good thing +that he had been put in the penitentiary:</p> + +<p>"I do not mean that it was good to kill men."</p> + +<p>He said that whisky was largely responsible for his +misdeeds and he wanted to do good now that he had +done so much harm. The following is Jett's story as +he wrote it in his cell:</p> + + +<p class="sect">Jett's Story.</p> + +<p>"State Prison, Frankfort, Ky., March 13, 1909.—To +the Whole World: I want to let the whole world +know what God in his great mercy has done for me, +and prove to you by words which are true that Jesus +is willing, able and does save to the uttermost. After +a life of sin and shame, God sent his Holy Spirit into +my soul and made a new man out of me. It was in +this wise: A dear, good woman who is dead now, but +who then lived in Lexington; her name was Mrs. +Fanny A. Penn—I shall never forget that name—she +wrote me a good Christian letter, full of good advice, +and begged me to become a Christian. I had never<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span> +seen her, or she me, as I know of; she had only read +in the press regarding what a desperado and outlaw I +was. I read her letter and it sounded like a fairy tale +to me, with no sense in it; but after reflection, I answered +it, and we began to be good friends, and she +kept begging me to turn from my sinful ways and be +a Christian man.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Read New Testament.</p> + +<p>"I want to state right here that because a man is in +prison, he don't have to be a Christian or behave himself; +and Mrs. Penn sent me a small revised Testament +and begged me to read it. At first I laid it up and +would not read it. I don't remember of ever reading +a whole chapter in a Bible up until that time in my +whole life; and at last, by her begging me in every letter +to read my Testament, I began to read it, and +started out with a resolution to read it through, and +after I began to read, I became interested in it, and +the more I read it the deeper I became interested in it, +and God's Holy Spirit began to work in me, and I began +to pray. At first it seemed that I was afraid that +God would not answer my prayers, but still something +made me pray anyway, and it wasn't long until I was +praying to God every night from one to three times, +from the depths of my heart. I had taken his name<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> +in vain ever since I was a child, and I asked him to +make me quit taking his name in vain, and after a +day at my work, and when I would curse God, I would +think of my prayers, and then at night when I would +go to my cell, I would let my thoughts wander over a +day that had just passed, and I could tell after reflecting +that I hadn't cursed so much that day. And +little by little God removed that evil spirit, cursing, +from me, until one night when I went to my cell and +my thoughts wandered over the day that had just +passed, and not an oath had I uttered, and I was happier +than ever before, I fell on my knees on the hard +stone floor, and thanked God for His goodness and for +removing that swearing away from me.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Quits Smoking Cigarettes.</p> + +<p>"I had smoked cigarettes for at least fifteen years +and I quit them. I was full of revenge and hatred, +and I cried aloud to God in my lonely cell to redeem +my soul, which He did, and it wasn't long before I +was a friend to everyone and praising God for full +and free salvation. He has made a new man out of +me. The Holy Spirit is like a fever, and it is all and +all before a man gets right with God. Condemning +and deceitful spirits will rise up in a man, but all we +have to do is to ask God and he will remove them all;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> +to live a true Christian life is the straightest life that +anyone ever tried to walk. It is a great warfare. I +read and study my Bible and have learned a great +deal about God's word since I joined the church, a few +short months ago, under a great, good and noble man +of Frankfort by the name of C. R. Hudson, and I love +him as a very dear brother. There is not a man in all +this world that I hold the least bit of malice against, +and before I got right with God I had revenge in me +against many.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Warns Young Men.</p> + +<p>"Young men, as you read this, from one who has +done many and great wrongs, take warning; shun evil +companions and don't do as I have done in days gone +by. Don't be led astray by older heads, for the man +that will advise you to do a wrong is not your friend; +but I could not see it that way. God has given me a +new mind and I know as well as I know that I am living +that religion is true, real and no fake, as I once +thought.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Has Been Born Again.</p> + +<p>"I was raised on a Bluegrass farm in Madison +County, Kentucky, and my parents were as good a +father and mother as ever lived; but my father died +while I was young and I went from bad to worse, committing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> +crime after crime, and I am guilty of the +charges against me, but God has forgiven me of every +wrong I ever did. Why won't the Governor? All the +punishment that I will ever have to go through with +will be on this earth, for God has forgiven me of every +wrong and I have a clear conscience now, for I have +been born again. There are so many men in prison +that trample the lowly God under foot to try and gain +their freedom in that way, and I hope that no one +single person that reads this will think that I am +making mockery of God's love, for I am sincere with +God, as I used to be with Satan. I wish that every +paper in the whole world would publish this so that +it could have a chance to touch the hearts of many sinful +men; I long to tell the story to young men, from +East to West, from North to South, how God redeemed +my soul.</p> + + +<p class="sect">Refers to Scriptures.</p> + +<p>"We have organized a Bible reading circle here in +the prison which is a grand and good work. Now I +refer you to some Scripture which I hope everyone +will read carefully, and it will show you how God +will forgive a man for the crime of murder and for all +crimes except one.</p> + +<p>"Read Exodus ii., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; II. Samuel xi. +and xii.; Ezekiel xviii., from 20th verse to end of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> +chapter; Jeremiah xxxiii., 8, 9; Mathew xii., 31; Luke +xv.; Acts vii., 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60; Acts viii., 1 to +7; 16, 17, 22; Galatians iii., 24.</p> + +<p>"I ask for the sincere prayers of every good Christian +in this whole world; pray for me, that I may be +true to God the rest of my life. When I was repenting +my whole face would draw and I could feel the +hot, burning love of God in my whole being. I am in +prison, maybe never to hear the birds sing or the rippling +of the water again, a free man, but I say unto +you that I am a free man in Jesus; I have found a +friend that sticks closer than a brother. People, let +your light shine, for I believe that there are many diamonds +in the rough. I am yours in Jesus,</p> + +<p class="citation">"<span class="smcap">Curtis Jett."</span></p> + + + + +<h2><a name="Christian_Endeavor_at_Frankfort_Prison" id="Christian_Endeavor_at_Frankfort_Prison"></a>Christian Endeavor at Frankfort Prison</h2> + + +<p class="place">Frankfort, Ky., Penitentiary.</p> +<div>Rev. Geo. L. Herr,</div> +<div style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Prison Evangelist,</div> +<div style="margin-left: 6em;">Louisville, Ky.</div> + + +<p>Dear Brother Herr:</p> + +<p>As you have been so kind to me and have asked a +somewhat detailed account of Christian Endeavor +work in this prison and my connection with same, it<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span> +is my pleasure to comply, especially as you do not +visit us as often as we would like and cannot see for +yourself all that goes on.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 270px;"> +<img src="images/ill-231.jpg" width="270" height="425" alt="HENRY E. YOUTSEY" title="" /> +<p class="caption">HENRY E. YOUTSEY<br /> +The Author knows of no man behind +prison bars in whom he is more interested +than Henry E. Youtsey.</p> +</div> + +<p>When I commenced my life sentence here, February +6th, 1901, I fell in love with our Christian Endeavor +Society at first sight, and in all those 104 +months I have only missed about 15 meetings, due to +unavoidable causes. I was ill for three months with +malaria and could not go at all.</p> + +<p>During the early days of my imprisonment our +membership at its best averaged about 100, but during +the summer months when the boys were given their +choice between the open air of the yard and attendance +at the meetings the average was less than 20.</p> + +<p>In the summer of 1905, and at the instance of Mrs. +M. B. R. Day, of Frankfort, I organized and managed +a memorizing contest in which a number of prisoners +learned and recited verses of scripture, and I +obtained a number of handsome Teachers' Bibles and +other presents which were given to them as prizes on +Thanksgiving day. I continued this work for the +three following summers, and in all forty-five prisoners +learned and recited a grand total of 33,332 verses, +(over four times as many as are contained in the New +Testament), which is an average of 741 verses per +man. The men studied so hard that some of them injured<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> +their eyes, and it was thought best to discontinue +the work for a while.</p> + +<p>I was Corresponding Secretary of our Society for +about two and one-half years, and last December I +was elected its President by the largest majority ever +given any candidate for the office.</p> + +<p>I started in to raise our membership to two hundred, +and succeeded in getting it as high as one hundred +and sixty-six. It was also my desire to have better +attendance during the hot months, and I used +every means I could think of to make our meetings +attractive, and I was frequently both pleased and +surprised to count from sixty-five to seventy, more +than three times what it used to be. Some of our +members being delicate are in great need of all the +fresh air they can get and remain in the yard all day +Sundays in pretty weather although their hearts are +with us.</p> + +<p>A part of our pledge binds the members to carefully +read the Bible every day, and I wondered how +they were going to keep that pledge without the Bibles, +so I set to work again writing letters in every +direction, and almost before I knew it our Ky. C. E. +Societies sent us 50 Bibles, and Miss Mary B. Rohrer, +of Franklin, Pa., sent me 150 of the prettiest Bibles +you ever saw; they have flexible, over-lapping backs,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> +red-under-gold edges, maps, and other helps. This +is the most magnificent present we have ever received +from outside parties, and besides all these, the +Prison Commissioners offered us 100 more, which we +could not use. One thing that has impressed me very +forcibly is the fact that the Christian people outside +are ready at all times to shower blessings upon us, +and all we have to do is to ask for them.</p> + +<p>At the suggestion of Bro. Jos. Severance, our splendid +Chaplain, I numbered the Bibles and gave them +out to the members, keeping a careful record of them, +and the men were instructed to return the Bibles to +the Society on leaving the prison, and although about +a score of our members have gone out since then we +have only lost one Bible, which speaks volumes for +their honesty.</p> + +<p>A few Sundays ago I proposed that the Society set +apart a small sum of money for prizes, and that all +the members who wished to do so would be invited +to write compositions on the subject, "What Christian +Endeavor has done for me." Nine brothers entered +this symposium, and their compositions signed, +"Amo Rolo, Sunflower, Rhododendron, Laurel, Merry +Heart, Happy Bird, Mizpah, and Christian, aggregate +about 7,500 words, and make fine reading; Bro. +Severance was appointed Judge.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span></p> + +<p>This summer I organized a little band of workers +who go with me to the hospital every Sunday, where +we hold little services of song, prayer and Bible reading +at the bedsides of those who are ill, and I have +found great joy in this work.</p> + +<p>We have had some splendid C. E. meetings, the best +ones being those when the Senior and Junior societies +of the Frankfort Christian Church and the Epworth +League of the Methodist Church united with +us. Of course, we could not go to them, but they came +to us, and gave us rare spiritual and intellectual +treats. The music was specially beautiful.</p> + +<p>Quite recently I assisted Bro. Severance in re-organizing +a Bible class, of which I am Secretary. We +are studying Moninger's "Training for Service," and +have 52 members. Splendid progress is being made. +So you see my hands are pretty full, and when Sunday +night comes I am about ready to drop in my +tracks. Of course, it is all voluntary, and I do not +have to turn my hand over if I do not want to.</p> + +<p>I am going to add a "Soul-winners Department" +to our C. E. Society for the purpose of assisting Bro. +Severance in the conversion of the men, but I am in +some doubt as to how to proceed as there is no chance +to get at the men in the winter time. However, I am +determined to find opportunity somehow.</p> + +<p>We have a new Superintendent of Prison C. E.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> +work, in the person of Miss Georgia Dunn, of Marksbury, +Ky. She is the most energetic little Christian +lady I have seen in a long time, and our society will +surely hum this winter under her guidance, as we +are all very proud of our good little sister.</p> + +<p>January 1st, I commenced to read my Bible +through, at the rate of three chapters each week night, +and five each Sunday night, in order to get through +by December 31st, but I read more than that and finished +up three months ahead of time. Although I +have read the good book constantly during the last +eight years, this is the first continuous reading to +completion that I ever did.</p> + +<p>I have enjoyed Bro. Severance's sermons very much +and I believe there is nothing that thrills and inspires +me with enthusiasm like fine preaching, and right +here I am going to tell you something which you must +keep under your hat; one Sunday Bro. Severance was +unexpectedly called away, and asked for a volunteer +to fill his place, and I was delighted at the opportunity, +and although I could not fill it I "rattled about +in it," for about 30 minutes, and one dear fellow accepted +the gospel invitation and joined the church. +As soon as my sermonette was over quite a number of +friends crowded around me and showered congratulations +on me. This was a temptation to try again,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> +and the next time three brothers joined the church, +and that pleased me immensely, you know.</p> + +<p>I have many good friends in Louisville, including +Dr. Powell, of the Christian Church; Dr. T. M. Hawes, +of the Highland Presbyterian Church, whose C. E. +Society sent us $7.50, and, say, there is a pastor after +God's own heart. Give them all my love when you see +them, and say to them that while I am ashamed of +the sins that brought me here I am trying to leave +foot-prints that I will be proud of in the great day of +judgment.</p> + +<p>The Christian Endeavor Societies of Newport, +Paris, Winchester and Lexington have helped us wonderfully. +Lexington is the principal center of Christian +Endeavor activity, from my point of view, and +I have an especially warm place in my heart for +those societies.</p> + +<p>How is Mr. John R. Pflanz getting along? He is +another whom I love, and I hope that he will get +every office that he goes after.</p> + +<p>Be sure and give my kindest regards to your most +excellent wife; she is certainly a queen among women.</p> + +<p>Trusting that I have not tired you, and that you +will excuse my remissness in failing to write sooner,</p> +<div>I am,</div> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">Most respectfully yours,</div> +<div><span class="smcap">H. E. Youtsey.</span></div> +</div> + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Capital_Punishment" id="Capital_Punishment"></a>Capital Punishment</h2> + + +<p>The following forceful expressions regarding capital +punishment by Gov. Geo. W. Hunt, of Arizona, are +in exact keeping with the thoughts of the author. +"Thou shalt not kill" applies to governments, corporations, +societies and individuals alike.</p> + +<p>Capital punishment is simply the commission by the +State of an act which is regarded as a horrible crime +if committed by an individual. One man must not +kill another man, but several men vested with official +titles can hold a conference and send a soul to eternity. +The State says: "You must not kill; but if you +do, I will kill you." This theory of a State's power +or duty owes its origin to the lowest class of barbarians +in the early history of the world. Their logic, if +it may be called that, sprang solely from a spirit of +revenge. The idea that a legal execution would deter +others from committing murder probably never occurred +to them. Their crude minds did not rise above +the thought that the victim should be avenged, and +that adequate vengeance could be found only in the +hangman's noose or the guillotine.</p> + +<p>There are a thousand other practices originating +with barbarians which the footsteps of civilization and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> +progress have crushed. But capital punishment, the +worst heritage of the dark ages, lingers with us, betraying +one of the spots in humanity where the veneer +of civilization is thin. I am inclined to think that the +spirit of revenge still is the ruling motive back of the +legal execution, even though pleas are made in its behalf +which barbarians never thought of. They could +not very well think of such punishment as a curb to +more murders, for even they could not help seeing +that the beheading and quartering of offenders had no +such effect. The legal execution has no such effect today, +a fact which any fair-minded man will recognize +after proper investigation. And if that plea falls +down, as it does and must continue to do, what defense +of the legal killing of our fellowman is left us? +The moment we are convinced that the number of +murders is on the increase, or does not decrease, in +spite of the rope and electric chair, we will have to +justify capital punishment on some other ground. +What is that other ground, if it is not the old savage +impulse of meting revenge—a species of revenge, +at the last analysis, confers no good whatever upon +society as a whole, and is of no consolation or comfort +to the family circle most affected by the original murder?</p> + +<p>Arizona has taken most advanced ground upon +social and economic questions, and while the old territorial<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> +law, permitting capital punishment, is still on +the statute books, it must be remembered that statehood +has been in operation less than a year, and that +the first State Legislature was overwhelmed with work +during the comparatively short session prescribed by +the Constitution. I am confident that public sentiment +in Arizona is opposed to capital punishment. +During the special session of the Legislature, which +will be held early in 1913, an effort will be made to repeal +the old law. If the Legislature is too busy to give +the matter attention, or is disinclined to assume the responsibility, +the initiative provision of the State Constitution +will be invoked, thus putting the question +square up to the people. I have no fears for the outcome. +Arizona citizenship has proved itself too intelligent +to lag behind the advanced thought and progress +of civilization.</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:3em;"><span class="smcap">Geo. W. H. Hunt,</span></div> +<div>Governor of Arizona.</div> +</div> + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="Indiana_Reformatory" id="Indiana_Reformatory"></a>Indiana Reformatory</h2> + +<p class="sub">Inmates Subscribe for Pipe Organ</p> + + +<p>Each one a Carnegie in proportion to his ability to +give, a majority of the 1,204 inmates of the Indiana +Reformatory yesterday voluntarily contributed toward +the purchase of a pipe organ for the handsome +chapel of the institution, the total offerings approximated +$900. When the contribution cards were +checked up by the Rev. W. E. Edgin, chaplain of the +reformatory, he was surprised at the generosity shown +by the inmates. The individual sums given ranged +from 25 cents to $35.</p> + +<p>When Gov. J. Frank Hanly was a guest at the Reformatory +recently he was asked by Mr. Edgin as to +the best plan to pursue to get from Andrew Carnegie +a contribution sufficient to buy a pipe organ. Gov. +Hanly replied that this sum could be raised in Indiana, +and he started the list with $100. It then occurred +to Mr. Edgin to ask voluntary contributions +from the inmates, and permission was given by Supt. +Whittaker. Cards were left in each cell, with blanks +for subscriptions, but it was distinctly stated that all +offerings should be entirely voluntary. A great many<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span> +of the inmates bring money with them to the Reformatory, +and this, with that which they earn by overtime +work, which is considerable, is credited to them.</p> + +<p>When the success of the offering was learned the inmates +were as much pleased as Chaplain Edgin. The +new organ soon will be forthcoming.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + + + +<p class="sect">PROGRAM.</p> + + +<p class="center">Indiana Reformatory Chapel Services.</p> + +<p class="center">Sunday, April 14, 1907.</p> + + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="program"> +<tr><td align="left">March—"Camp Organ"</td><td align="right">Narovec</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">March—"Steel King"</td><td align="right">St. Clair</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">Musical Selection.</p> + +<div class="center"> + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="program"> +<tr><td align="left">Paraphrase—"Melody in F"</td><td align="right">Rubenstein</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<p class="center">Doxology.</p> +<p class="center">The Lord's Prayer.</p> + + +<p class="center">I SHALL BE LIKE HIM.</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:22em;"> +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">When I shall reach the more excellent glory,</div> +<div class="i1">And all my trials are passed,</div> +<div class="i0">I shall behold Him, O wonderful story!</div> +<div class="i1">I shall be like Him at last.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span><br /><br /></div> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">Cho: I shall be like Him, I shall be like Him,</div> +<div class="i1">And in His beauty shall shine;</div> +<div class="i0">I shall be like Him, wondrously like Him,</div> +<div class="i1">Jesus my Savior divine.<br /><br /></div> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">We shall not wait till the glorious dawning</div> +<div class="i1">Breaks on the vision so fair,</div> +<div class="i0">Now we may welcome the heavenly morning,</div> +<div class="i1">Now we His image may bear.<br /><br /></div> +</div> + +<div class="stanza"> +<div class="i0">More and more like Him, repeat the blest story,</div> +<div class="i1">Over and over again,</div> +<div class="i0">Changed by His Spirit from glory to glory,</div> +<div class="i1">I shall be satisfied then.<br /><br />man</div> +</div> +</div> + +<p class="center">Prayer.</p> + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="program"> +<tr><td align="left">Piano Solo</td><td align="right">J. S. Hathaway</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">Selection—From "Romeo and Juliet"</td><td align="right">Gounod</td></tr> +</table> + + +<p class="sect">THE VIRTUE OF SHAME.</p> + +<p>Confession is a duty too little regarded even by +many Christians. Some men are ashamed to confess +that they have done wrong. Sir John Lubbock says: +"It is well to be ashamed of yourself if you are in the +wrong; but never be ashamed to own it." The Bible +says: "Confess your faults one to another."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span></p> + + +<p class="sect">CONQUEST.</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:90%;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.—Goldsmith.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All things are yours.—Paul.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="poem" style="width:25em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The world is mine. I hold no title-deed<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To one small acre, yet have all I need,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And should Dame Fortune proffer me her store<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I could not linger wistful, at her door.<br /><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Unfortunate is he beyond compute,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose love of fortune makes his conscience mute.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I will not look to fortune. I will do<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My best, though small that best to her or you.<br /><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">All things are mine. I walk with firmer tread<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than Caesar at his best; for I am led<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By mightier One than Fortune or than Fate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And I shall conquer all things, soon or late.<br /><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">All things? Yes, all. Then well may Fortune frown,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And clutch with trembling hand her imperial crown.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I will stoop to conquer. I will rise<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And climb the rugged path where duty lies.<br /><br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="program"> +<tr><td align="left">Sermon</td><td align="right">Geo. L. Herr</td></tr> +</table> + +<p class="center">Benediction.</p> + + +<table border="0" width="100%" summary="program"> +<tr><td align="left">March—"Boston Press Club"</td><td align="right">Rollinson</td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">March—"Yankee Grit"</td><td align="right">Holzman</td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="sect"><a name="CLING_TO_THE_BIBLE" id="CLING_TO_THE_BIBLE"></a>"CLING TO THE BIBLE."</p> + +<div class="poem" style="width:28em;"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Tis the anchor of hope and the lamp that gives light,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Tis the star that will shine thro' your life's darkest night,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If you follow its guidance, you'll always be right,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">So cling to the Bible and walk in its light.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<p>To neglect, reject or doubt the Bible in any particular +is but an entering wedge to spiritual apathy. The +"Bible tinkers" of this or any other age have been +men whose hearts are cold and whose soul saving powers +were limited.</p> + +<p>To obey the Bible, will lead to a perfect salvation, +make possible a victorious faith, surmount the difficulties +of life and gain an "inheritance incorruptible, +and undefiled and that fadeth not away, reserved in +heaven for you."</p> + +<p>Watson says, "The Bible is a rock of diamonds; a +chain of pearls; the sword of the Spirit, a chart by +which the Christian sails to eternity, the map by +which he daily walks; the sun dial by which he sets +his life; the balance by which he weighs his actions."<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 350px;"> +<img src="images/ill-247.jpg" width="350" height="766" alt="The Tree of Life and Knowledge" title="The Tree of Life and Knowledge" /> +</div> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span></p> + + + + +<p class="sect"><a name="DO_YOU_KNOW_THE_WORLD_IS_DYING_FOR_A" id="DO_YOU_KNOW_THE_WORLD_IS_DYING_FOR_A"></a>"DO YOU KNOW THE WORLD IS DYING FOR A +LITTLE BIT OF LOVE?"</p> + + +<p>Practical results are happy homes, husbands and +fathers restored to their families, wives and children +made happy, multitudes rescued, and the world made +better.</p> + +<p>The magnitude of this work will never be known +until Eternity's records are disclosed. Little did we +think twenty years ago that so humble a beginning +would be attended with such remarkable results.</p> + +<p>Rev. Herr holds a unique position in the evangelistic +field. He is considered the greatest evangelist +among prisoners in the United States.—Louisville +Herald, May 17, 1909.</p> + +<p>When you help the missionaries, you help the poor +fellow in trouble. When you help those in trouble, +you help yourself, and when you thus help the missionary, +the outcast, and yourself, God will help you.</p> + + +<p class="sect">OUR MOTTO:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">"Seeking the lost."<br /></span> +<span class="i1">"Helping the helpless to help themselves."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All along life's pathway there are men and women in need:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Go and help somebody just now.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With a word of kindness or a loving deed,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Go and help somebody just now.<br /></span> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></div></div> + + +<p>Dear Friend—Our country is taxed with a burden +of thousands of prisoners. These people are crippled, +not in body, not in mind, but almost always in morals, +which is the most serious. It is to help or recover +them that we are giving our lives. Our labors have +not been in vain, as the testimonials will show you. +We want you to "hold the rope while we go down into +the pit," by subscribing for our support and transportation +in this work of prison evangelism; and in so +doing you become the benefactor of a submerged class.</p> + +<p>May we not hope to have your check to help in this +concerted effort? I am,</p> + +<div class="citation"> +<div style="padding-right:5em;">Yours sincerely,</div> +<div style="padding-right:3em;">GEO. L. HERR,</div> +<div>Louisville, Ky.</div> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<div class="verses"> +<p>"He that hath the Son, hath life, and he that hath +not the Son of God hath not life."—1 John 5:12.</p> + +<p>"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"—Heb. +2:3.</p> + +<p>"For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the +whole world and lose his own soul?"—Mark 8:36.</p> + +<p>"But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his +righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto +you."—Matt. 6:33.</p> +</div> + + + + + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span></p> +<p class="sect"><a name="GET_REV_HERRS_NEW_BOOK" id="GET_REV_HERRS_NEW_BOOK"></a>GET REV. HERR'S NEW BOOK.</p> + + +<p>Entitled "The Nation Behind Prison Bars," for +your good; but chiefly for the good of others.</p> + +<p>The nation behind the bars is an interesting nation, +a pitiful nation, a needy nation. Help them and interest +yourself in them by buying and reading this +book.</p> + +<p>"You have a superb record."—Rev. Horace G. Ogden, +D.D.</p> + +<p>"He has wide experience on both sides of the line."—Rev. +H. C. Morrison, Editor Pentecostal Herald.</p> + +<p>"His labors are abundantly blessed."—Rev. Joseph +Severance.</p> + +<p>"The large number who have been helped by hearing +your message will be still further benefited by +reading your book."—Rev. Albert J. Steelman, Ph.D., +Chaplain, Illinois State Penitentiary.</p> + +<p>"You and your good wife were father and mother +to the prisoners."—John R. Pflanz, Jailer.</p> + +<p>"George L. Herr is not the man to do anything in +an ordinary way."—Rev. D. J. Starr, D.D., Chaplain +of Columbus, O., Penitentiary.</p> + +<p>"His work among prisoners has been very successful, +and through his efforts many erring creatures +have been induced to reform."—Charles F. Grainger.</p> + + +<h2>Transcriber's Notes</h2> + +<p><a href="#Page_vii">Table of Contents</a><br /> +(Practical Religious Work in County Jail)<br /> +Pratical changed to Practical.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_7">Page 7</a><br /> +(glorified by the presence)<br /> +glorifield changed to glorified.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_144">Page 144</a><br /> +(Hundreds of Letters we have<br /> +have have changed to have.</p> + +<p>The following are used interchangably:<br /> + today and to-day,<br /> + exconvict and ex-convict<br /> + cellhouse and cell-house<br /> + brokenhearted and broken-hearted</p> + +<p>Several unbalanced quotes were left as in the original.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_128">Page 128</a><br /> +(Jerry was put to work in the engine room)<br /> +This paragraph appears to need an open quote. Unchanged.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_141">Page 141</a><br /> +("The wages of sin is death,)<br /> +Phrase seems to need a closed quote. Unchanged.</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_161">Page 161</a><br /> +("Amo Rolo, Sunflower, Rhododendron, Laurel, Merry<br /> +Heart, Happy Bird, Mizpah, and Christian,)<br /> +List of names seems to need a closes quote. Unchanged.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's The Nation Behind Prison Bars, by George L. 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