for membership:  “All male persons of the age of eighteen or upwards, who have been in the habit of using intoxicating liquor to a greater or less extent, are eligible to membership in this club.”  After organizing a club of persons who have been addicted to drink, Dr. Reynolds appeals to the Christian women of the locality to throw around them the shield of their care and sympathy, and urges upon the people at large the necessity of upholding and encouraging them in every possible way.

The meetings of the clubs are held at least once during the week, in the evenings; and on Sunday afternoons or evenings, the clubs, with the Woman’s Christian Temperance Unions, hold public religious temperance meetings, which are often crowded to overflowing.  The order of exercises at these public meetings consist of prayer, reading of Scripture and brief addresses by reformed men, interspersed with the singing of such hymns as “Rock of Ages,” “Hold the Fort,” “I Need Thee Every Hour,” etc.  Brief addresses are the rule, and a hymn is usually sung between each address.

The badge worn by members of these reformed clubs is a red ribbon.  Their motto is “Dare to do Right.”

One of the first fruits of the establishment of a reform club in any locality, is an increase in church attendance, and a decrease in the tax rate.  In many towns where they exist, liquor-selling has become unprofitable, and liquor-drinking a custom that hurts a man’s social standing.

From the East, Dr. Reynolds extended his labors into the West, where his work has been chiefly confined to the State of Michigan.  In a letter to the Union, the organ of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, under date of July, 1877, the aspect and results of Dr. Reynolds’s work in that State are thus referred to by a correspondent from Evanston:  “His plan is to take a State and settle down in it ‘to stay’ until it capitulates to the red-ribbon pledge.  None but men over eighteen years of age are allowed to sign this pledge.  Eighty thousand men in Michigan, to-day, wear the ribbon, which is a token of their signature—­all of them have been drinking men.  ‘None others need apply’ as members of Dr. Reynolds’s Reform Clubs.  His method is to speak in a general way to the public on the evening of his arrival—­his meetings being held in a hall and thoroughly announced.  The next afternoon, the doctor addresses women, chiefly from the medical point of view.  If they have not a W.T.U. he organizes one.  The second night he talks to the public generally again, and organizes his club, then goes on his way, and leaves the town rejoicing.  The doctor is thoroughly business-like and methodical.  There is no doubt about his securing, in every State he visits, the same results as in Michigan, for his ability is marked, his experience growing, his sincerity complete and all his work is ’begun, continued and ended’ in a firm reliance upon God.”

To give an idea of the excitement created by the presence of Dr. Reynolds in any community, and of the results of his efforts to reclaim intemperate men, we copy the following brief reference to his work in the spring of 1877: