DEAR BROTHER: We desire to emphasize the following part of an article published in your valuable paper, the REVIEW AND HERALD, December 3, page 781. The article is by David Paulson, M. D., headed “God-Given Opportunities,” and contains these words: “Another great opportunity that we have, and one which has been strangely neglected, is the State, county, and city prisons all over our land. There are many excellent men in these prisons, and the Lord will open up the way for us to come in contact with them if there has already been created in our hearts a genuine desire to do for them what society is not willing to do, that is, to extend to them a helping hand as they leave the prison doors. The number of wicked men outside of prison walls is far larger than is the number confined within the prisons.” We desire to give a hearty Amen to Brother Paulson’s words above quoted. Many leave prisons, desiring to lead the same good Christian life in the820outside world that they learned to live in prison, but the Christian people outside fail to extend to them “a helping hand.” If a man leaves this prison with the O. K. of the warden, deputy, or chaplain, no one need be afraid to take an interest in that man and help him secure work. The best authority in the world in regard to what can be done for men leaving prisons is Mrs. Ballington Booth, and after several years’ trial, she says that over seventy-five per cent of the men helped on leaving prisons, prove themselves true. We trust you and your readers in Michigan will take more interest in this field. We feel certain there is no other prison where, as great an interest is taken in the spiritual welfare of the inmates as at the prison in Jackson; and better results will follow if Christians will help the men as they leave here.