Men of known vicious or criminal lives are not received.

Nor are the friends of such as indulge in an occasional drunken debauch permitted to send them there for temporary seclusion.

None are admitted but men of good character, in all but intemperance; and these must be sincere and earnest in their purpose to reform.

The capacity of an institution in which the care, and service, and protection of a home can be given, is too small for mere experiment or waste of effort.

There are too many who are anxious, through the means offered in a place like this, to break the chains of a debasing habit, and get back their lost manhood once more, to waste effort on the evil-minded and morally depraved, who only seek a temporary asylum and the opportunity for partial recovery, but with no purpose of becoming better men and better citizens.