. Christian herald. presence added a great influ-ence, and I believe that night, fourteenyears ago, the 20th of April, as Istood in the old Bowery Mission, wasthe turning point in my life. I wasjust a homeless, friendless derelict,without work and with no thought ofthe morrow. If I did think, it wasonly to fill me with remorse, for I wasalways a pessimist because of myhabits and my life. I did not want tothink of the past. I had a good fa-ther who was then living. I did notwant to think of the opportunities Ihad and of the things I might havedone, or what might have been if Ihad done right, bu
. Christian herald. presence added a great influ-ence, and I believe that night, fourteenyears ago, the 20th of April, as Istood in the old Bowery Mission, wasthe turning point in my life. I wasjust a homeless, friendless derelict,without work and with no thought ofthe morrow. If I did think, it wasonly to fill me with remorse, for I wasalways a pessimist because of myhabits and my life. I did not want tothink of the past. I had a good fa-ther who was then living. I did notwant to think of the opportunities Ihad and of the things I might havedone, or what might have been if Ihad done right, but I am glad to beartestimony to every discouraged man inthis room that the step I took four-teen years ago I have never I have materially—that isas far as outward appearances areconcerned—I have because I have beentrying to live a right life. My motherhad passed over to the heavenly shore,but perhaps that night her prayerswere heard, for I stand here to-nighta redeemed man by the grace of THE GOSPEL IN A PRISON T7i ROM time to time in the lastfew years. The ChristianHerald has referred to the re-markable case of an inmate ofthe Moundsville, W. Va., penitentiary,who was committed to that prison ona five years sentence. The story ofthis man and his conversion in prison,and how he came to be a Gospel light-hearer to his fellow prisoners, is toldin the Huntington Herald-Dixpntchof September 24. His term of im-I)risonment will soon expire, and hewill go forth to freedom and to begina new life with an aim and purpose inliving which he never knew in the of worldliness and sin. TheHrriild-Dvipnfrh says: He has earned all the good time al-lowed by law, and in this way verymaterially shortened his term. He islaying his plans to come back home toHuntington, where he left his family,to re-enter His friends claimthat he was not guilty and some proof,it in said, has dcvolnpcd since his con-viction tending to substantiate thishrlicf. He was, be
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