CHAPTER VIII.

INCIDENTS IN MY PRISON WORK.

Letter from the Prisoners at Chester, Ill.--Extract of Chaplain's Report--Suicide of a Prisoner--"I Have no Friends"--Letters from Chaplain Starr--A Way Opened in Answer to Prayer--A Letter from a Governor--A Woman Converted and Healed--A Change Wrought--A Chaplain in My Audience--Impressed to Tarry-- Encouragement by the Way--Cruel Neglect--Another Suicide--Just Out of Prison--Dying in Prison--Does It Pay?--Saved and Preaching the Gospel--In Solitary Confinement--Crape on the Door--In a Police Station--Burned in His Cell--The Innocent in Bonds-- Confessed Her Guilt--Under Sentence of Death--"The Religion Mother Had" 135