Item #18127 Coming! Coming! Former Convict No. 5584…Hear the Stirring Message of “Marvelous Conversion in the Arizona State Prison.” Don’t fail to hear him give stories of God’s marvelous dealings and experiences among inmates of penal institutions…. PRISON EVANGELISM CRIME.

[CRIME, PRISON EVANGELISM]

Coming! Coming! Former Convict No. 5584…Hear the Stirring Message of “Marvelous Conversion in the Arizona State Prison.” Don’t fail to hear him give stories of God’s marvelous dealings and experiences among inmates of penal institutions….

NP: 1930.

8 x 12 inches, printed in black, red and purple. Old creases from folding, all else very good. Broadside advertising an interdenominational religious revival to be led by Thomas Noah Carter, a reformed “drunkard, dope fiend, criminal, leader and character in the underworld.” Carter was converted in 1922 while in the Arizona State Prison. Upon his release the same year, he began conducting revivals in churches and correctional institutions around the country. In 1927 he published From Prison Cell to Pulpit, Being the Personal Testimony of Thomas N. Carter, Jr. By 1935, newspapers were reporting that he had visited 3000 correctional institutions in North America.