The Commoner
VOL. 21, NO. 6
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JIM HICKS HEARS FROM HARD
ING ON RELIGION
ut havo always believed in the In
spiration of the Holy Scriptures,
whorofoy they have become the ex
pression to men of tho word and will
of God. I boliovo that from evory
point of viow tho study of the Bible
is one of tho moat worthy to which
men may devote thomselves, and
that, in proportion us they know and
understand iU their lives and actions
will be better.
"Very sincerely yours,
"Warren G. Harding."
The foregoing was sent to Jim
Hicks, superintendent of the Prison
niMo urmlntv nf Aniovln.'l. 7fifi WGSt
,Van Buren street, by President
I Harding in a recent letter, "it is
representative of my most earnest
i views," wrote the chief executive.
Tho message will be spread broad-
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cast by Mr. Hicks, whoso 1921 ambi
tion is to distribute 250,000 Bibles,
250,000 pocket testaments, 500,000
Gospels and 100,000 religious song
books in the jails and prisons of the
United States.
"I, too, was a jailbird," smiled Jim
Hicks today. He sat in the obscure
nfflnn nf flin IttHp TlllRHlnil Oil West
Van Buren street. Near-by was the
miniature kitchen where Jim Hicks
prepared the soup, coffee and rye
bread for 100 hungry -men every
night. Jim Hicks smiled at the
corners of the eyes, all over his
rotund face.
"My picture's in the rogues' gal
lery at the South Clark street sta
tion right now," said Jim Hicks still
smiling. "I've done time in nineteen
prisons. I was in the Virginia re
formatory when I was 11 years old.
I never went to school; dad raised
me to be a moonshiner. I grew up a
no-'count rapscallion.
"One day, eight years ago, a man
asked me to pray. It was in an
Illinois nrison. where I was servinir
sentence. I'd never prayed before,
but I did, anyway. 'God be merciful
to me, a sinner,' I said, over and over
again.
"I prayed my way out of prison.
That's a fact, sir. I'm traveling
around the country all the time, con
vicing other convicts that they can
do the same. I help 'em when they
come out. cet 'em food and clothos
and jobs. By that time praying has
become a habit with them and they
straighten up and become good citi
zens for life."
Jim Hicks has preached since
that grim day of Feb. 6, 1913, when
ho came out of prison in 1,000
churches in the middle west and 400
in Chicago. And his prayer always
is suostantially the same: "God be
merciful to me, a sinner." He started
his little mission six years ago. He
never became an ordained minister.
Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Men
nonite, and Congregational churches
numbering 300 have come to his aid.
The Rev. S. P. Long is president of
Jim Hicks' Bible society.
"Last year I carried the word of
God to forty prisons in twenty-eight
states," added Jim Hicks. "I handed
56,800 Bibles to men behind the cell
?00rs- But, say, I'm just beginning.
I need 250,000 Bibles this year for
distribution: but I haven't .mt ,:
money. My little society has grown
ma few years from a local to a
nationwide organization. But we've
failed to reach over 700,000 men arid
anTlonr-6 !n lr State prisons
ana 1,50,000 m our local jails.
"I'm 43 now. Refnrp T or. t ,..
to have a Bible in every prison cell
prison' SSPeI meetiUg in evei'y
Then Jim Hicks smiled again It
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