I feel now that I will never drink again, as I do not associate with drinking men, or go to places where liquor is sold.

It was so different at the Home from anything I had ever met or heard of, that I went away with more strength to resist than ever before.

When I came to the Home I could not get a position in Philadelphia, nobody having confidence in me.

Since then I have been engaged as foreman in a manufacturing establishment, by the very man that had discharged me several times for drinking, and have been with him a year.

I feel more happy and contented now than any time in ten years past, and if I had a friend who I found this was taking hold of, I would bring him to the Home, for I believe any one that is sincere can be reformed, and I would recommend any man that needs and desires to reform to go to the Home, as I did." AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Writing to Mr.Samuel P.Godwin, President of the Franklin Home, an old inmate, five years after his reformation, says: "I received your kind letter and recognized in it the challenge of the ever-watchful sentinel, 'How goes the night, brother ?' I answer back, 'All is well.' I am delighted to hear of the continued success of 'my second mother,' the Home, and the Association, my brothers; and I thank God, who is encouraging you all in your efforts for fallen men, by showing you the ripening fruits of your labor--efforts and labors that are inspired by a love of God that enables you to see in every fallen man the soul made like unto _His_ own image.