"An aged mother, not only bowed down with the weight of seventy years, but heart-sick with the 'hope deferred' of ever finding her intemperate son, heard of him at last, as rescued by the Home; and, being brought to the Sunday and evening services, met him there, 'clothed and in his right mind.' The tears streamed down her face, as she said: 'That man is forty years old, and I've been a widow ever since he was a baby, and I've wept over him often and often, and _to-day_ I've shed tears enough to bathe him from head to foot, but, oh! thank the Lord! _these_ are such _happy_ tears!' "Said one wife: 'Some days, these hard times, we have enough to eat, and some days we don't; but _all_ the time I'm just as happy as I can be! "'I wish you could see my children run, laughing, to the door when their father comes home. Oh! he is _another_ man from what he was a year ago; he is so happy at home with us now, and always so patient and kind! "'Do tell us if there isn't something;--if it is ever so little--that we women can do for the Home; we _never_ can forget what it has done for us!' "Such words, heard again and again with every variety of expression, attests the sincerity of those who, in widely differing circumstances, perhaps, have yet this common bond, that through this instrumentality, they are rejoicing over a husband, a father, a son, 'which was dead, and is alive--was lost, and is found.' "Surely, such proof of the intrinsic worth of a work like this, is beyond all expression--full of comfort and encouragement to persevere." Again: "Through their instrumentality families long alienated and separated have been happily brought together. This branch of the ladies' work has been peculiarly blest; and their reward is rich in witnessing not only homes made happier through their labors, but hearts so melted by their personal kindness, and by the Gospel message which they carry, that husbands and wives, convicted of the sinfulness of their neglect of the great salvation, come forward to declare themselves soldiers of the cross, and unite with the Christian church." THE TESTIMONY OF INMATES. As the value of this and similar institutions is best seen in what they have done and are doing, we give two extracts from letters received from men who have been reformed through the agency of the "Home" in Philadelphia. In the first, the writer says: