Chapter I: Preface

I taught psychology for fifteen years at the Atchison Institute, the predecessor of Midland College, located at Atchison, Kan. I was there greatly impressed by the fact that the books gave no adequate analysis of the psychology of the greatest mental and moral change which can come to the human mind, namely, conversion and regeneration; yet these changes make the great difference which we see between men and nations.

A Rescue Mission gives a great opportunity to study mental and moral changes, and my observations and conclusions, made from years of study, are herein embodied.

This book is sent forth with the earnest hope and prayer that it will lead many souls to Christ; also that it will show earnest laymen just how to bring about that psychological change which we call conversion. A Sunday school teacher who brings only ninety per cent of her students through the process of conversion and regeneration is ninety per cent a success and ten per cent failure. The same is true of a pastor with a class of catechumens.

“Ye must be born again,” is just as true to-day as it ever was, and if we believed it as Paul believed it, what live wires we would be.

This book is to remind us that Jesus saves to the uttermost in our day, just as He did when He visibly walked this earth.

HARRIET E. MONROE,
204 A Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.

JULY 29, 1914.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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HOW I HAPPENED TO BECOME INTERESTED IN RESCUE MISSION WORK 7

CHAPTER II

RESCUE MISSION WORK 22

CHAPTER III

INCIDENTS SHOWING THE POWER OF GOD TO SAVE 29

CHAPTER IV

AN ELEMENT OF HUMOR IN RESCUE WORK 36

CHAPTER V

BIG FEET 44

CHAPTER VI

HOW WE GOT A NEW MISSION BUILDING 49

CHAPTER VII

VARIETIES OF WORK IN A GOSPEL MISSION 59

CHAPTER VIII

THE NEED OF RESCUE WORK 69

CHAPTER IX

THE PENNY LUNCH AND FREE DISPENSARY 82

CHAPTER X

THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL 94

CHAPTER XI

HEREDITARY SIN 107

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