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CHAPTER I.

SUNDAY IN WATER STREET — HOMES OF REVELRY AND VICE —
SCENES IN THE MISSION ROOM —STRANGE EXPERIENCES.

• Water Street, its Life and Surroundings — A Harvest Field for Saloons and
Bucket-Sliops — Dens of Abomination — Sunday Sights and Scenes —The
Little Sign, "Helping Hand for Men" — Inside the Mission Building-—■
'An Audience of ex-Convicts and Criminals — A Tough Crowd — Jerry
McAuley's Personal Appearance — A Typical Ruffian—A Shoeless and
Hatless Brigade — Pinching Out the Name of Jesus—"God Takes what
the Devil Would Turn up His Nose at"—" O, Dear-r, Dear-r, Dearie
Me!" — Comical Scenes — Quaint Speeches — Screams and Flying Stove-
Lids— A Child's Hymn—"Our Father in Heaven, We Hallow Thy
Name " — Old Padgett — A Water Street Bum — '' God be Merciful to Me
a Sinner"-A Terrible Night in a Cellar —The Empty Arm-Chair,   49
 

CHAPTER II.

CHRISTIAN WORK IN WATER STREET —THE STORY OF JERRY
McAULEY'S LIFE TOLD BY HIMSELF —A CAREER OF WICK¬
EDNESS AND CRIME —THE MISSION NOW.

The Historic Five Points — Breeding-Ground of Crime — Dirty Homes and
Hard Faces— " The Kind God Don't Want and the Devil Won't Have"
— Jerry McAuley —The Story of His Life Told by Himself — Born in
a New York Slum —A Loafer by Day and a River Thief by Night —
Prizefighter, Drunkard, Blackleg, and Bully—A Life of Wickedness
and Crime — Fifteen Years in Prison — His Prison Experiences — Un¬
expected Meeting with "Awful" Gardner — Jerry's First Prayer—He
Hears a Voice —Released from Prison — His Return to Old Haunts
and Ways — Signing the Pledge—His Wife — Starting the Water Street
Mission —An Audience of Tramps and Bums — Becomes an Apostle to
the Roughs — Jerry's Death — Affecting Scenes—Old Joe Chappy—A
Mother's Last Words — A Refuge for the Wicked and Depraved, 68
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