He was the counselor and adviser of many persons who did not know him personally, but through patients.

I have seen letters to him from patients in all conditions asking counsel, both on secular and spiritual matters; also the most heart-rending appeals and statements of fathers, mothers, wives and children, all of which he religiously answered.

He urged that the great duty and obligation of every drunkard was to take care of his body; to build up all the physical, to avoid all danger, and take no risks or perils; that his only help and reliance were on _God and good health_; that with regular living and healthy surroundings, and a mind full of faith and hope in spiritual realities, the disorder would die out.

Our new chaplain holds daily service, as usual, and spends much of his time among the patients.

He lives in the building, pronounces grace at the table and is personally identified as a power to help men towards recovery.