This brought him into personal contact with Mr.Murphy, who was not only deeply humiliated at the disgrace into which his intemperate life had brought him, but almost in despair.

He tells the story of this part of his life with a moving eloquence.

Capt.
Sturdevant, after some solicitation, induced him to leave his cell one Sunday morning and attend religious services with the prisoners.

He was in a state of mind to be deeply impressed by these services, and the result was a solemn resolution to walk, with God's help, in a new and better way.

While yet a prisoner, he began his work of trying to save men from the curse of drink, and to lead them to enter upon a religious life; and his influence with his fellow-prisoners was very marked and for good.