The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-06-13
Those in Prison Bonds
Torrance, Cal, May %, 1919.


My dear Prison Friend:
Accept my apology for not having
written you sooner regarding my
dear brothers death, and sending an
expression of heartfelt gratitude for
the kind interest you showed him
during his illness, and for minister
ing to him in the absence of his dear
brothers and sisters which is indeed
very regrettable to me- Anything
might say to you regarding the kind
ness you gave him would come far
from expressing our thoughts. 1t was
indeed, very sad condition, and it
will be long time before we can
commence to forget that he passed on
to his reward without the presence
of any of his family; but since that
day the letter arrived telling us he
had passed away, it has been to us
a great relief 20 know he had renew
ed his covenant with God, and that
you were SO thoughtful to tell us all
the minor details that made condI-
tions more tolerable as well as made
it possible to add one more name to
that role which we all delight to
think of as friends, and that name is
yours.
AS sad as it all is we have this
consolation that when he was near
us, we all, always did the best we
ieould for him when he had fallen into
/ sin, and always made his home com
ing day of rejoicing, and we who
did not already have all we could
bear, came to his rescue when he
was separated from his family for a
season of this kind And after he
found himself in a helpless condition
there, he had his wife write me,
and answered him kindly, and agreed
to keep his family. 1t is great re-
lief to think that he did not make
the sad oft repeated mistake, such
as giving the knocking when he was
living and the flowers when he is
dead. | am doubly glad his mother
passed on before this transpired, for
/ am afraid that would have been to
her the last straw
/ | want to say a few words to you
before closing about the part | be-
lieve you are taking in what we call
Gods work, judging from my sister 8
letters she has just mailed to me. To
be a home missionary is to be one
of His elect. 1t is indeed very sad
that you are at that Institution, but
there are many good Christians in
the same unfortunate place, and
while I do not believe your Heavenly
Father had any sucn plan for you
4 do DeIiF4a he is leading YOU to one
9 of the greatexz pieces of work he
has for mankind ito do. s~7hat is q
noble work for you to do and judging
from your letter you veelong ags
adopted the plan of forgetting your
own trials by helping some brother
forget his / know without your tesS
Etimony that you, find enjoyment il
doing for others. 1t has only been {
very few years since | had time tt
look after but one, and that one wa:
myself But it may interest you tt
know that ] now have no family tt
help to make it possible for me tt
give all of my spare time 70 a Chris.
tian work
i We are new spending our second
Z year in the beautiful state of Cali
fornia, about eighteen miles from Lo'
Angeles, where that wonderful insti
tute, the Bible institute is located.
lentereu there student about Janu
J. airy the first, to take a general course
feeling that the six months training
in this splendid school would better
Iqualify me for Christian work. was
there till March the first when my
health began to fail for lack of out
door exercise, and came back home
to attend school one day each weei
and do my studying at home which
lis quite satisfactory, but / learned
one lesson as well as feeling ] had
two months that was nothing short
of continual feast, and that lesson
/, was that no woman is jusified in Civ
ing up her home and separating her
self from her husband even for Chris
tian work. | learned that | was al
ready filling very necessary place
in this community | am working IN
the Evangelical church, am Sabbath
school teacher, assistant Sabbath
school superintendent and president
of the Ladies' guild.
oh, often think how near it may
be the time when the Lori will come
back to claim his own, as he plainly
tells us he will and yet people are
not only unprepared but they do not
read their Bible to understand that
this is to be. And so in short there
is seemingly but one thing for his
disciples to do, and that is to earnest
ly pray for the coming Messiah.
am hoping in a very short time TO be
/ sufficiently qualified to go out among
the great masses of sin-sick human
ity, and give my time and means to-
ward the things that will be for the
glory of the Master
Thanking you again for your kind
ness to Roy and hoping some time to
hear that you have been liberated
and have returned to your loved ones
at home.
You. may rest assured that you
have been remembered each day al