From Prison to Pulpit

My wife and I have prayed for more than two years for the happy time to come when I could rewrite my life story in a more complete form. I feel at the present time the Spirit is ready to help me. I may say, before continuing, that I have the blessing and it is just as real now as when I first experienced it. The Lord has marvelously blessed and kept my family and me. We have learned to carry a burden for the lost and dying that are drooping in darkness and despair, since God so miraculously delivered me from prison and called me to preach His Gospel. I have related my life story over and over, many times in different cities and towns, city streets and jails, to large crowds and small crowds, to the rich and the poor, to the educated and to the uneducated, but never did I relate it but that I was conscious of the humility that goes with Christian character. I am glad we are "not redeemed with corruptible things such as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot."


The author has written this little book for the glory of God and for the benefit of the boys and girls needing light on these serious subjects:

1. Sermon. Are parents responsible?

2. Inheritance of crime.

3. Mother's prayers have followed me.

4. A sin-bruised soul.

5. When crime governs the intellect.

6. From prison to pulpit.

7. Sermon: Christ lifted up.

8. How I got saved.

Since God brought the subject matter of this little book to the author's mind, and laid it upon his heart for publication, he believes that with the Divine blessing of God upon it, it will prove a lighthouse by life's sea which will help to warn the young man or the young girl of lurking danger, when they are tempted to enter the life of a robber, and will be an encouragement to all who may read its contents.