He rushed over, threw his arms around his wife, then
took the little girls in his arm, and what joy there was! There was no
more work that day.
Jim showed her the saloons he used to get drunk in, and he did not
forget to show the place where he was converted, and on that very spot
we all had a nice little prayer-meeting, and as a finale, Mrs. Jim took
Jesus, saying, "If He did all that for Jim, I want Him too."
They are back in Syracuse, living happily. Jim has a class of boys in
the Sunday-school and is a deacon in the church. I had the pleasure of
eating dinner in their home. I often get a letter from Jim, telling of
God's goodness. He says he will never forget the fight he made for the
pants or his friend Danny Ranney.
[Illustration: ONE OF MR. RANNEY'S OPEN-AIR MEETINGS.]
CHAPTER IX
PRODIGAL SONS
A CESSPOOL
The Bowery has always been a notorious thoroughfare. Twenty years ago
there were few places in the world that for crime, vice and degradation
could be compared with it. Many changes for the better have taken place
in the last few years, however. Following the Lexow Commission
investigation, scores of the worst haunts of wickedness were closed and
vice became less conspicuous.
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