Nonfiction · 1905
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry a. Nation
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry a. Nation, first published in 1905, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Introductory
- Chapter II — My Experience with the Negroes as Slaves.—Their Superstitions.— a Beautiful Fairy Tale
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII — Spiritual Leadings.—Jesus a Conscious Presence Three Days.—Loss of Liberty by Compromising.—The Price Paid to Be Reinstated.—Disgrace to Be a Millionaire
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X — Legal Status of Prohibition and Joint Smashing,
- Chapter I — Bishop’s Criminal Law 828; I Hilliard on Torts, 605
- Chapter XI
- Chapter XII — Woman’s Suffrage
- Chapter XIII — Echoes of the Hatchet
- Chapter XIV — Christian Experience
- Chapter XV — Spiritual Authority for My Christian Work
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII — My Visit to Washington, D. C.—Arrested in the Senate Chamber.— Taken Out by Officers.—The Vices of Colleges, Especially Yale— Roosevelt a Dive-Keeper
- Chapter XVIII — Prohibition or Abolition.—What It Means.—The Free Methodists and Other Ministers Endorse the Work.—A Catholic Priest’s Endorsement.— Modern Deborah.—John P. St. John
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX — Why I Went on the Stage.—The Vice of Tobacco
- Chapter XXI — Trip on Fall River Steamboat, from Boston to New York—Officers Tried to Lock Me in My State Room—Sequel Satisfactory, Made Pleasant Trip and Many Friends
- Chapter XXII
- Chapter XXIII
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV — Closing Remarks with Plans for the Future—Prohibition Clearly Defined
- Finale
- Preamble
- Chapter XXVI
- Chapter XXVII — (Sketch by WILL CARLETON, in his Magazine EVERYWHERE.)
- Chapter XXVIII
- Liquor Drinking in Health and Disease
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