| CHAPTER I. |
| BIOGRAPHY AND CALL TO THE WORK. |
| Birth—Left an Orphan—Conversion—Marriage—Sorrow—Sanctification—Call to Prison Work—Family Reunion—Sketch of My Life by My Brother | 23 |
| CHAPTER II. |
| LETTER TO MY PRISON CHILDREN. |
| My Limited Education—Disappointments—A Friend in Jesus | 38 |
| CHAPTER III. |
| A PLEA FOR THE PRISONER. |
| In the Shadow of the Wall (poem)—Letters to Prison Officers—Worth While (poem)—Prejudice—A Look into the Cell—Insane Prisoners—All Prisoners Not Criminal—Prepared to Die | 43 |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| A BRIEF PEN PICTURE OF PRISON LIFE. |
| The Buildings—Entrance—Chapel and Dining-room—Chapel Service—The Cell-house—Workshops—Hospital | 59 |
| CHAPTER V. |
| LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION AND KIND WORDS FROM GOVERNORS, PRISON OFFICIALS, ETC. |
| From Governors—Prison Wardens—Chaplains | 67 |
| CHAPTER VI. |
| SOME OF MY PRISON BOYS. |
| A Prisoner's Conversion as Shown by His Letters—A Talented Young Man—Under Death Sentence—Commuted—Finally Pardoned—Letters—Sentenced for Life—His Letters—Faithful Inside and Outside of Prison Walls | 87 |
| CHAPTER VII. |
| LETTERS FROM CO-WORKERS AND MY PRISON GIRLS. |
| Letters from Sister Co-workers—From My Prison-bound Girls | 117 |
| 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 |
| CHAPTER IX. |
| CONVERSION OF DESPERATE PRISONERS PREVENTS A TERRIBLE MUTINY. |
| Welcomed in Prison—An After-Service—Plan of the Mutiny—Havoc of Sin—Letters | 161 |
| CHAPTER X. |
| REMARKABLE CONVERSION AND EXPERIENCE OF GEO. H. COLGROVE. |
| His Own Story—Infidel Literature—Burglary and Murder—Life Sentence—Conversion—Study of the Scriptures—Bible Class Teacher—An Enemy Kindly Treated—A Pardon Refused—Second Effort to Secure a Pardon—Letters—Final Illness and Triumphant Death | 169 |
| CHAPTER XI. |
| WORK IN STOCKADES AND PRISON CAMPS IN SOUTHERN STATES. |
| Race Question—Letters of Introduction and Recommendation—A Stockade—Letter to a Governor—Reply of Prison Manager—Plea for Women Convicts—Bloodhounds—Coal Mines—A Touching Incident—First Meeting in a Prison Camp—Ride on Engine of a Coal Train—First Railroad Pass—Ride on a Mule | 187 |
| CHAPTER XII. |
| STOCKADES AND PRISON CAMPS CONTINUED. |
| Novel Conveyances—Assisting a Colored Minister—Through Danger Alone—Prostrate Among Prisoners—A Meeting at Day Dawn—Helping to Bury a Prisoner—Wreck of a Coal Train—Sugar Camps—Ride in a Cart—In a Gambling Saloon—Condition of Convicts—Unjustly Condemned—Need of Reform | 212 |
| CHAPTER XIII. |
| WORK IN FT. MADISON, IOWA, AND SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. |
| My First Effort for Service in a Prison—Kindness of Officers and Men—Letters from Officials—Work in Santa Fe, N. Mex.—Three Christian Men Pardoned—A Forty Years' Sentence—Kind Words from Governor and Superintendent | 241 |
| CHAPTER XIV. |
| GONE HOME FROM THE SCAFFOLD. |
| Special Mission to Doomed Men—Indifferent but Finally Converted—Letters—Mother's Prayers—Claimed to Be Innocent—Hardened in Crime—Ten Men under Death Sentence—Conversion of a Jewish Boy—Mysteriously Guided—In Long Expectation—Sentence Commuted—A Man Deceived—Interceded for a Boy—Went to the Scaffold Singing—A Prominent Official—Recent Cases | 254 |
| CHAPTER XV. |
| WORK IN CHURCHES AND MISSIONS. |
| Provided with Food in Answer to Prayer—A Great Revival—A Man Saved from Suicide—Letters from Pastors and Others—Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore—Successful Meetings—Young Man Called to the Ministry—A Colored Woman Saved and Preaching—Incidents—Saved by a Hymn | 294 |
| CHAPTER XVI. |
| PREACHING THE GOSPEL ON RAILWAY TRAINS. |
| Accidental Death of My Nephew—My First Trip by Rail—Experience of a Railroad Man—Transportation—A Kind Conductor—Interesting Services—Train Saved from Wreck—A Train in Danger—Impressed to Leave the Train—Helped to Care for a Wounded Man—Conductor's "God Bless You"—A Woman's Faith Encouraged—Riding in a Parlor Car—F SONGS. 1. "Life's Railway to Heaven."
2. "Meet Me There."
3. "God Bless My Boy."
4. "The Great Judgment Morning."
5. "My Name in Mother's Prayer."
6. "Over There."
7. "This Way."
8. "She's More to Be Pitied."
9. "Some Mother's Child."
10. "Tell My Dear Old Mother."
11. "When the Death-bell Shall Toll."
12. "The End of the Way." | APPENDIX. | 596 | | The Personnel of Prison Management. By Warden C. E. Haddox. | | Meditations of a Prisoner. | | Discourse on "The Agony in the Garden." By a Prisoner. | | Directory of Prisons and Reformatories. | ILLUSTRATIONS | Frontispiece | | Ohio State Prison | 27 | | Family Group | 34 | | John Ryder | 34 | | Giving the Boys Counsel | 42 | | With Insane Prisoners | 52 | | Prisoners Marching | 58 | | Prison Chapel and Dining Room | 60 | | Corridor in Cell House | 62 | | New Federal Prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. | 66 | | The Old Tombs, New Tombs, New York | 80 | | Personal Work | 86 | | Administration Building, Mitchelville, Iowa | 115 | | Campus and Play-ground, Girls' Industrial School, Mitchelville, Ia. | 116 | | A Chaplain's Residence | 118 | | Women's Prison, Allegheny, Pa. | 121 | | Group of Girls in an Industrial School | 132 | | Southern Illinois State Prison at Chester | 134 | | Interior of Chapel, Dining Apartment, and Row of Cells, Chester, Ill. | 160 | | Geo. H. Colgrove | 169 | | Smelter and Work Shops, Chester, Ill. | 186 | | Woman Convict at Work in the Field | 195 | | Convicts Getting Out Coal | 198 | | Prison at Santa Fe, N. Mex. | 240 | | Church of the Redeemer, Baltimore, Md. | 303 | | A Railroad Engine | 312 | | Miss Josephine Cowgill | 329 | | Mother Prindle | 361 | | State Prison, Joliet, Ill. | 394 | | Prison at Deer Lodge, Mont. | 397 | | Criminal Insane Hospital, Chester, Ill. | 408 | | Prison at Huntsville, Tex. | 410 | | Group of Delegates at Prison Congress, 1904 | 414 | | Industrial Reform School, Hutchinson, Kan. | 416 | | Industrial School, Whittier, Cal. | 418 | | Prisons at Jackson, Mich., Deer Lodge, Mont., and Folsom, Cal. | 430 | | A Ward in Prison Hospital | 445 | | Kitchen and Dining Room | 455 | | Drug Department in Prison Hospital | 475 | | Mother Wheaton | 490 | | Ruthena, India Famine Boy | 535 | | State Prison, Anamosa, Iowa | 546 |
"Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not the hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God." —Tennyson.
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