Dave Ranney / Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography
by Dave Ranney
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Chapters (67)
- DAVE RANNEY
- OR
- THIRTY YEARS ON THE BOWERY
- An Autobiography
- Introduction by Rev. A. F. Schauffler, D. D. 1910
- This story of my life is dedicated to DR. A. F. SCHAUFFLER Who stuck by me through thick and thin
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- BOYHOOD DAYS
- THE FIRST TASTE FOR DRINK
- A TRUANT
- A BASEBALL GAME
- CHAPTER II
- FIRST STEPS IN CRIME
- THE FIRST THEFTS
- LOSING A POSITION
- AT WORK AGAIN
- TOUCH NOT, TASTE NOT
- DEEPER IN THE MIRE
- CHAPTER III
- INTO THE DEPTHS
- MARRIAGE
- WANDERINGS
- CHAPTER IV
- "SAVED BY GRACE"
- THE TURNING-POINT
- BROOME STREET TABERNACLE
- A NEW MAN IN CHRIST JESUS
- CHAPTER V
- ON THE UP GRADE
- FISHING FOR A DINNER
- PRAYERS IN A LODGING-HOUSE
- THE STORY OF AN OVERCOAT
- DELIVERING TELEPHONE BOOKS
- TESTIFYING IN A LUMBER YARD
- CHAPTER VI
- PROMOTED
- CHURCH OF SEA AND LAND
- MY FIRST SERMON
- THE TESTIMONY OF A GAMBLER
- TRIED IN THE FIRE
- A TESTING TIME
- CHAPTER VII
- THE MISSION IN CHINATOWN
- LEADING A MEETING
- SOMETHING NEW
- A POOR OUTCAST
- RESCUED FROM A DIVE
- "TELL HER THE LATCH-STRING IS OUT"
- CHAPTER VIII
- BOWERY WORK
- LODGING-HOUSE MISSIONARY
- FROM NOTHING TO $5000 A YEAR
- A MISSIONARY IN COURT
- A COUNT DISGUISED AS A TRAMP
- A MUSICIAN WON TO CHRIST
- SAVED THROUGH AN OUTDOOR MEETING
- JIM THE BRICKLAYER
- CHAPTER IX
- PRODIGAL SONS
- A CESSPOOL
- A REMARKABLE DRUNKARD
- FORGIVING FOR CHRIST'S SAKE
- SAVED ON THE THRESHOLD OF VICE
- THE PRODIGAL SON ON THE BOWERY
- LAST WORDS
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