CHAPTER XVII.

STREET AND OPEN AIR.

Poem--Permits to Hold Street Meetings--From a Missionary--My First Street Meeting--A Wonderful Conversion--Became a Preacher--The Blind Encouraged--Forbidden to Preach on the Street--Thought They Saw a Ghost--Hurt by a Saloonkeeper--Warned to Leave the City--In Jail 328

RESCUE WORK.

"A Mother's Plea" (poem)--A Plea for our Sisters--Drunken Women and Men--Assaulted in a Dive--Attempts Suicide--A Girl Saved--A Girl Rejected at a Rescue Home--Neglected by the Churches--Visits to Hospitals--Kind Tributes--The Prodigal Daughter (poem) 349