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.