Jerry McAuley and His Mission [Revised edition]

by BONNER, ARTHUR

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Book description: Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hard Cover. 0872130606 . 123 pages, well illustrated, map, cloth, dj, very good. Revised edition. From the higherpraise website on the greatest preachers: JEREMIAH MCAULEY, 1839 - 1884, missionary, born in Ireland in 1839; died in New York city, 18 September 1884. At the age of thirteen he was sent to a married sister in New York city, and assisted her husband in his business, but, forming vicious associations, left them soon, and lived in Water street, where he became a thief and a prize-fighter. At the age of nineteen he was arrested for highway robbery, and, although innocent of the charge, was convict ed and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. When he had been about five years in prison he became religious, but after he was pardoned, in March 1864, he returned to his evil practices. When reduced to poverty, he found a friend in a missionary, who aided him to find work, and reawakened his religious convictions. After repeated relapses, he entered the Methodist church, and in October 1872, opened a mission called the "Helping Hand" in Water street. He was very successful in arousing religious feelings in the degraded, assisted by his wife, MARIA, who had been his companion in vice. In 1882 they opened the "Cremorne Mission," and in June, 1883, he began the publication of a weekly called "Jerry McAuley's Newspaper." .

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