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, and good-will to their fellow-men,' will be surprised to see how much easier it is to _do_ these things when they _try_, than when they only _think_ about them.
"Much, of course, depends upon the superintendent, who needs to possess those genial qualities which readily win the confidence and good-will of patients, and which he readily turns to account, by encouraging them to use the means which the Creator has given them to co-operate in curing themselves.

The means of cure are in the patient's own hands, and it is quite a gift to be able to make him see it." THE WASHINGTONIAN HOME AT CHICAGO is on the same plan, in all essential respects, with that of Boston; and the reports show about the same average of cures and beneficial results.
How the patient is treated in this Home may be inferred from the following extract from an article on "The Cause, Effect and Cure of Inebriety," from the pen of Prof.D.Wilkins, the superintendent, which appeared in a late number of _The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety_.

In answer to the question, How can we best save the poor drunkard, and restore him to his manhood, his family and society, he says: "Money, friends, relatives and all have forsaken him, his hope blasted, his ambition gone, and he feels that no one has confidence in him, no one cares for him.

In this condition he wends his way to an institution of reform, a penniless, homeless, degraded, lost and hopeless drunkard.
Here is our subject, how shall we save him?
He has come from the squalid dens, and lanes of filth, of misery, of want, of debauchery and death; no home, no sympathy and no kind words have greeted him, perhaps, for years.