y
years. My connection with it has been for eighteen years--sixteen
years as president. During the period of its existence the whole
number of patients has been five thousand three hundred and
forty-eight. Of this number, the superintendent, Dr. Day, estimates
the cured at one-half. Of the remainder, it is estimated that
one-half, making one-quarter of the whole, are greatly improved.

"You say, 'I take the general ground, and urge it strongly upon the
reader that, _without spiritual help--regeneration, in a,
word--there is, for the confirmed inebriate, but little hope, and
no true safety._'

"In this I fully concur. I believe in using all the
agencies--medical, social, moral and religious--to bear upon the
patient, and to encourage him to follow the 'straight and narrow
way.' With this view, a morning service is held each day; a Sunday
evening service at six o'clock, and every Friday evening a meeting,
where patients relate their experience, and encourage each other in
gaining power over the enemy. I have had much experience and
abundant evidence that these meetings are of great value, for the
reason that the patients are the principal speakers, and can do
more to encourage each other than those outside of their own ranks.
These meetings are usually attended by about equal numbers of both
sexes, and, with fine music, can be kept up with interest
indefinitely.

"It would be, in my judgment, a matter of wide economy for the
intelligent citizens of every city, with twenty thousand or more
inhabitants, to establish a home, or asylum for inebriates. Let
those who favor sobriety in the community, take a part in it, and
they will soon learn how to reach the class who needs assistance. A
large, old-fashioned house can be leased at small expense, and the
means raised by contributions of money and other necessary articles
to start. The act of doing this will soon enable those engaged in
the work to learn what the wants are, and how to meet them. It is
only obeying the command, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and
compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.' This is the
Master's work, and those who hear this invitation, as well as those
who accept it, will share in its blessings.

"Those who cultivate the spirit of 'love to God, an