%trtb annual Ortoonerer Ilumber Published monthly April, 1904 Price, Tine Cents Uolume Seven 3$ Cents !lumber Tour 28 33rd Place, Chicago a Year. `let a /Little Zunebine fin 4. 'a 0 :Vag 9.P 7 fo 14S400p4ituasf fool ausaff-,r 'olvano 'vvi umsvAl .tico2s 40114M1-4 **VD 1110if 9,47 Supulatpv ow up pupas. dopulA4-7 TtVJS 23I330 IVOR Zan SRI 30 SIIRRPIRbt 1Ia NR}IVISMRIA, An Illustrated Monthly :Journal Devoted to Charitable, Philanthropic, Health and Soul=.5aving Work. Entered at Me Post Office at Chicago, Ill., as second-class matter. Volume VII CHICAGO u APRIL, 1904 Number 4 THE LIFE BOAT. myth. To such this LIFE BOAT should be an evidence to the contrary. In order to enable Yearly subscription 35c us to send 50,000 copies of this number to In clubs of five or more to one the prison cells of America, poor women have address 25c sent us the little pittance they earned in Ten cents additional to foreign countries. weary toil at the washboard. More than one little girl has gone without a doll, so that Address all orders and business communica- some prisoner might read this LIFE BOAT ; tions to THE LIFE BOAT, 28 Thirty-third place, many an invalid for the same reason has dis- Chicago, Ill. pensed with some little tempting luxury; children have denied themselves the pleas- ure of candies, playthings and trinkets so that HAVE CHARITY. they might help pay printers' bills on 50,000 MONNIE MOOSE LATHAM. Tell me not some hearts are dead LIFE BOATS to be sent to as many prisoners. To all good intention, Horny-handed toilers in the field or in the And that some lives are bent on wrong, Heedless of detention. shop as well as hard-working business men To touch the chord of sympathy, have assisted in this effort. Those connected By words fitly spoken, With THE LIFE BOAT office have been content May change a life on verge of wreck, Or sooth a heart nigh broken. to work with little or no support so that THE One tender tone may change the tide, LIFE BOAT could be used for this and other Ere it be a torrent, similar purposes. And words unspoken save some life Grief and worldly comment. All this has not been done to gain votes Throw not one stone lest it rebound, or to win influence among men, for in the Laying low the sender, majority of instances the deed will be prac- And when you other lives would blame, Thine own remember. tically unknown. Is not this convincing evi- dence that they yielded to the promptings of God's spirit on their hearts to let a gleam of DO YOU FEEL THAT ALL THE gospel sunshine fall into the lives of some of WORLD IS AGAINST YOU? their fellow men? DAVID PAULSON, M. D. Often those who have passed through bit- ter experiences conclude that everybody is If you find a subscription blank enclosed, absolutely cold and unfeeling and that the it means that your subscription has ex- brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of pired. Please renew at once in order that God is only an imaginary sentiment or your name may not be taken from the list. 98 THE LIFE BOAT, HOW MUCH DO YOU APPRECIATE whose only means of reading are her finger YOUR SIGHT AND HEARING? tips,, says in her book: "How shall I speak of Suppose there should be blotted from your the glories I have since discovered in the mind everything that you have learned through Bible? For years I have read it with an ever your eyes and ears. How much would you broadening sense of joy and inspiration, and I have left? Helen Kel- ler was a blind and deaf girl, her mind a blank, with the ex- ception of a few ideas she had acquired by feeling her way round her parents' home. Then Miss Sullivan, a teacher of the deaf and dumb, undertook the apparently impos- sible task of unfold- ing knowledge to this child. Little by little she was successful, but it took her days to get little Helen to comprehend that love was something differ:- ent from a kitten or some other object she could put her fingers on. By supreme pa- tience Miss Keller was led into the paths of knowledge through feeling alone, and she has shown a surpris- i n g development, be- ing now about to grad- uate from college. Her remarkable story has been written up in various magazines, but recently she has writ- ten it herself in a book entitled " The Story of My Life." As one reads of the tre- Copyright by Photograph by Emily Stokes, Ma mendous struggle this Emily Stakes, nog young woman went MISS KELLER AND " PHIZ " through in order to ac- (Courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co.) quire what has come to us almost without any love it as no other book. The Bible gives me effort, he can not help feeling deeply grateful a deep, comforting sense that 'the things seen to the Lord for his eyes and ears. are temporal and things unseen are eternal.' This young woman who must remain in per- "My life, with all its limitations, touches at petual darkness, who never hears a sound and many points the life of the World Beautiful. THE LIFE BOAT. 99 Everything has its wonders, even darkness and he was there he does not know, but sometime silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be during the night a glorious light dispelled the in, therein to be content. Sometimes, it is true, deep darkness of his soul and he cried out, a feeling of isolation enfolds me like a cold "Oh, praise God, I found Jesus, and He gives mist as I sit alone and wait at life's shut gate. peace to my soul." The unusual soand brought Beyond there is light and music, and sweet the keeper, who asked: companionship ; but I may not enter; . but "What is the matter with you?" my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words Jerry answered : "I found Jesus, that's what's that rise to my lips, and they fall back into my the matter with me." heart like unshed tears. Silence sits immense, He found some opportunities to breathe out upon my soul. Then comes Hope with a smile the new found hopes of his soul and the love and whispers, 'There is joy in self-forgetful- of Jesus to the prisoners about him. Soon a ness.' So I try to make the light in others' revival broke out in the prison such as never eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my sym- had been seen before or since, and Jerry was phony, the smile on others' lips my happiness." the center of it all. He was pardoned in 1864, but when he got home he had no friends, no money, and he soon fell into bad company and HOW GOD CALLS MISSIONARIES OUT got to be a worse scoundrel than he ever was OF PRISON CELLS before. It was after this he became known as S. H. HADLEY, the dangerous East River pirate. He was re- claimed in 1868, and although he fell five times Superintendent the Old McAuley Mission. after that during the first eight or nine months, Some of the best missionaries this world he was finally anchored to Christ. ever knew are men who have been sentenced Do you know that every drunkard uses to- to long terms 'in prison. Wholly shut away bacco? Jerry was no exception. Some faithful from the world and its dreadful temptations, friends said to him: "Jerry, give up your to- God had a chance to speak to them. Jerry bacco for Jesus' sake," and he gave it up, and McAuley was a wonderful example of this, then he never fell afterward. and that drunken loafer and thief was finally He was afterward married to Maria, his used so wonderfully by the Lord God that faithful wife, who also was redeemed from a his name has gone all over this world and has drunkard's life, and in 1872 opened the world been an inspiration to millions. He was sent renowned McAuley Mission, at 316 Water to prison from the Fourth Ward of New York street, down on the East Side, nearly under the for fifteen years at the age of nineteen years. Brooklyn Bridge. One Sunday morning in the chapel the speak- He stayed here ten years and then opened er was old "Awful" Gardener, an old-time ruf- the Cremorne Mission, Thirty-second street fian and prize fighter in New York, but God and Sixth avenue, where he died in 1884, and had got hold of him and he had been wonder- had the largest funeral of any private citizen fully saved. With tears streaming down his who was ever buried in New York. face he told of the love of Christ, and he said: The writer succeeded Jerry McAuley down "Boys, I ought to be wearing the stripes the there and the work is going on night and day. same as you are, and I feel a deep sympathy Drunkards and thieves come in by the thou- for you." sand and, thank God, many of them are saved He also quoted some verses from the Scrip- unto life eternal. The writer is also a convert tures, and after the boys had gone back to their of Jerry McAuley Mission. cells Jerry found a Bible in the ventilator of [For lack of space in this special number the his cell, and, looking it over aimlessly, tried to wonderful story of Mr.