Incidents and Experiences Of a Railroad Evangelist - 1920 - CONTENTS . Chapter XIV . xv . Page Preface .................. I . ..... 5 Incidents and Experiences ........ 7 Work in West Virginia .......... I 5 Meetings in Ohio and Pennsylvania 23 Across the Continent and Return . . 28 A Trip Through the South ....... 35 Meetings in the Central States .... 41 M7 . C . T. U . Convention ......... 46 trork in Georgia ............... 51 . At Home. Mountain Lake Park. Maryland ................... 63 Flittings ........................ 75 Direct Answers to Prayer ........ 78 Work in the East ................ 90 W . C . T . U . Convention in Cali-fornia ...................... IOI A Word in Season ............. 112 The Worlds Convention ......... 122 A Run Through West Virginia. .. 131 Our National W. C. T. U. Convention for 1916 ............... I35 Meetings in Maryland and Penn-sylvania .................... I43 The National Railroad Y. M. C. A. Convention ................. 148 A Red Letter Day in the District. 158 National W. C. T. U. Convention .. in 1917 ..................... 168 Moundsville, West Virginia, Camp., 1919 ................ 180 Answers to Prayer and Leadings Regarding the Home.. ....... 186 -- PREFACE. -- DEAR R EADER Y OU may not have seen my earlier books, The Valley of Baca and the sequel From Baca to Reulah the first giving my invalid life and the sequel the wonderful deliverance from it, or the story of the work after my restoration to health in two volumes, entitled, Ramblings in Beulah LandJ Nos. I and 2. But if you have you will see the continuation of the Ramblings in the incidents givenas a Railroad Evangelist. interest was awakened in railroad men when I was a helpless invalid, carried from one place to another for treatment. I traveled in the baggage cars. Wherever my couch was set down they would look for one of the police officers, who were care-takers. So I learned what noble hearts they and the railroad men had. Also, I had great opportunity to see with what they had to contend and how they were neglected spiritually. After I was healed I was made the National Superintendent of the Railroad Dep tment of the Womans Christian Temperance Union. This opened the way for special work along the railroads. The best of my life has been spent among railroad people but you will see as you go through these pages how we have touched all phases of humanity. I trust hearts will be stirred to think of those serving the public, who have been neglected spiritually. May we all come with many sheaves to lay at the Masters feet bye and bye, and meet to part no more. Yours prayerfully, JENNIE SMITH. Incidents and Experiences of a Railroad Evangelist. CHAPTER I. OW is it with Engineerman 86 H we asked as we entered Grafton, W. Va., for the first time and saw the old camel-back yard engine, pass. Our friend said, You could never reach him he is an unbeliever and going to a drunkards grave. That was sufficient to burden our hearts for that soul. We held our meetings in the Court House. We had workers from Washington and Baltimore. All agreed to pray for that soul. One morning George Perine-the first convert on the Baltimore and Ohio road--came to us, saying, What shall I do I was singing that new song, Im the Child of a King, to a lot of fellows down in the caboose, when Engineerman 86 in vited me to go to his house and make that my home while I stay here. We said, Why that is in answer to our prayers go and be faithful, God will save that soul. That night he brought him to the meeting, but ...