Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-26
SEVEN SERMONS
IN TWELVE HOURS.
I. A. Fredcnhageu, Superintendent
OF Kansas Society for Friend
less, Establishes Record,
STRENUOUS TIME YESTERDAY.
Spoke to Prisoners at the Peniten.
tiafy and Addressed Six congrcga-
tons in Salt Lake Churches

General Superintendent y. a. Frcden-
hagen of the Kansas Society for the
Frendcss. and a member OF the Kan
sas State Board Of Charities and Cor
rectiona, who is visiting In this city,
had strenuous day OF II yesterday.
lie Is In the far west In the interest
generally OF prison reform and evan
gellcal work In prisons and jails, and
particularly in The interest OF the estilb-
lishment Of branches OF the society for
the Friendless. an organization whose
object Is TO look after men discharged
from jals and prisons. help them get
on TO their feet. 20 make a new start
In life. and TO soc that they are In a
way 10 become useful citizens. At
present, In this state, when a man is
discharged from prison he IL given 81
IN money, and q hand me- down suit
Of clothes, and turned loose. lie has
been In confinement for several years,
has lost all track Of current events and
~ entirely out Of touch with the rou-
tine Of life outside OF prison walls II
the man lives at distance, S. viii not
pay his railroad fare, lt will barely
maintain him FOR week while he IL
looking for employment and the
work without assistance, He finds the
tendency TO turn him down, particular
~ II the style Of his clothes is recog-
nlzed, for there Is o samcness about
these discharged convict suits that IL
caught on to quickly, and operates
against q man, Presently the mans
money Is gone, he Is friendless, he gets
desperate, he meets old acquaintances
In wrong doing who invite him to take
drink, and the first thing that man
knows IL that he Is In the grasp OF the
law again, and once more back to the
old home".-thc city tug" and the state
prison. DR.. Fredenhagen aud his wife
organized at Topeka, Kansas the So
ciety for the Frlendless. which would
take q discharged convict by the hand,
and give him to understand that "a
mans a man for a. that" while there's
life there's hope, and that there Is
practical sympathy with unfortunates
Of this class which viii aid him in an
endeavor to cast aside forever his old
criminal life and strive to become a
man In the future.
This society took root at once and
has since spread over the adjoining
states, so that Il has passed the expert
mental stage and the main promoter
Is In this city To- start movement
which shall result In the organization
here OF q branch society TO find work
for discharged convicts, to get them To
their homes--if ut n distance, 10 en-
courage them In all practical ways to
strive for themselves, to earn an hon.
est living, and keen away from evil
associations. DR.. Frodenhagen is also
here 10 unite the Prison Society Of
Christian Endeayor In the Federation
OF the Prison League of Christian En-
deavor In which he has the support OF
the United Society az Boston, That he
Is an enthusiast in his work Is evil
denced from the fact that he spoke
seven times yesterday, although not In
the bsst of health. He arrived Satur-
day afternoon, and registered al the
kenyon. and held q conference with
President VI III. Smith OF the State
Union Of Christian Endeavor, Rev. p.
A. Slmpkin, chairman OF the local
christian Endeavor Prison committed
and others; and began yesterday morn
ing, BY speaking to the Sunday school
81 the First Methodist church After.
wards he spoke IN the First Congrega-
tlonal, and then In the First Methodist
churches; In the afternoon he addressed
the inmates Of the state prison, and
after dinner he spoke before the Ep-
worm League or the First Methodist
church, and the Endeayor society OF the
Christian church. and finally occupied
the evening IN the First Presbyterian
church, This morning he spoke be.
fore the Ministerial association, and for
tho rest OF the day and tomorrow, he
Is at work on his society for the Friend.
less scheme.
The address yesterday afternoon, at
the prison, was d yer? practical ono,
and made an excellent impression on
the prisoners II was entirely in line
with what they were most in need Of
and served to strengthen the Endeavor
work there Mrs p r.. Shepard pre-.
sided, and there We're present also Miss
Grace NJ Heikes Of the local commit.
tee, Miss Jessie Drew, prominent
evangelical JAN worker and others.
The doctor was introduced afterwards
TO officers OF the society there, and
came away fayorably impressed with
the status OF the work. His adj
dresses elsewhere were highly Instrue.
tive IN suggestions as TO do effective
work In reformation and the fact that
the great bulk OF inmates OF prisons
are young men, and the need Of rescu-
ing them were made prominent