“It is impossible to give figures, for there are additions every day of hundreds in the State, and the climax of enthusiasm is by no means reached in any town while Dr. Reynolds is there.

“In Jackson, Sabbath evening, February 11th, two months after the organization of the club, Union Hall was so packed that the galleries settled and were cleared, and hundreds could not gain admittance.

“As the result of ten days’ work in Saginaw Valley—­at the three cities—­(Bay City, Saginaw City and East Saginaw), the clubs number about three thousand men.

“From there, Dr. Reynolds went to Lansing, our capital, and at the first signing, two hundred and forty-five joined the club, which is far up in the hundreds now.

“The last and greatest victory is Detroit.  Slow, critical, conservative, staid, not-any-shams-for-me Detroit.

“Friday and Saturday nights there were crowded houses.  Sabbath afternoon, two thousand five hundred men together, and a club of three hundred and forty-five formed.  Sabbath evening, no room could hold the people, and the club reached nearly nine hundred.  It is safe to say to-day that a thousand men in the city of Detroit are wearing the red ribbon.

“Dr. Reynolds has done another grand work, and that is in bringing up the W.C.T.  Unions.  Everywhere this follows, churches are packed with women.  Dr. Reynolds tells them how they can help the men and their families, and they fall into line by the hundreds.  Three hundred have enlisted in Bay City, four hundred in Lansing, two hundred in East Saginaw, and so on, all over the State.”

The establishment of reform clubs has been more general in New England and the Western States than in other parts of the country, though their organization in some of the Middle States has been attended with marked success.  Vermont has a large number of clubs, the membership ranging from one hundred to fifteen hundred.

FRANCIS MURPHY.

The work of Francis Murphy, which, has been attended with such remarkable fervors of excitement in nearly every community where he has labored, is not so definite in its purpose, nor so closely organized, nor so permanent in its results as that of Dr. Reynolds.  He draws vast assemblies, and obtains large numbers of signers to his pledge, which, reads: 

“With malice towards none and charity for all, I, the undersigned, do pledge my word and honor, God helping me, to abstain from all intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and that I will, by all honorable means, encourage others to abstain.”

An Irishman by birth, and full of the warm impulse and quick enthusiasm of his people, he has thrown himself into the work of temperance reform with an earnestness that commands a hearing, and with an ardor of appeal and solicitation that is, for the time, almost irresistible.