Starr-Dailys-Triple-Feast-FINAL
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period you had together released values so great as to beggar language, values beyond the power of human computa- tion. Occasionally I exchange correspondence with two men. Both are married and both have splendid children. Their own boyhood and early manhood had been spent in crime and prison. One afternoon, our tasks for the day com- pleted, they came up to where I was reading a magazine in a corner of the prison shirt shop. Without preamble one of them said, “We want to know how you get this way.” “What way?” I asked, knowing very well what he was driving at. “You’ve changed,” the other one remarked. “You do time now as though you liked it.” “I use time now,” I said. They pressed me for infor- mation, and by and by I felt it safe to mention prayer. We talked for an hour on the subject. Conversational prayer was explained to them. They decided they would begin to study spiritual books,