Show increase In creasa of K m 4 1 I is shim shin yv tm i r ITO lib ae the editor JEA iea foy toy for of the arely new mimes times ja last month a meeting wai wal va held heid in philadelphia for fort the h e purpose 0 of getting tipa u j memorial t to 0 congress to in brease trease the nu number in ber of chael chaplains a i no id in the navy and to introduce intro duct certain reforms there is no doubt that mat sailors and officers t too oo 00 need a great deal of moral and religious teaching nt lut before asking congress to increase the number of chaplains it would have been wise in thai thit convocation of 0 clergymen to have inquired whether hobe hose now belonging to td the service are employed if they had had bad made diligent inquiry they would probably roba have learned lear bied ried that itis it is nearly three yearb yeara since there was a chaplain at the navy yard in in washington or the receiving ship or hospital at charlestown Charles town mass A moderate degree of effort would have discovered the fact that the hdm administration in of tim the navy department duri duning during the last three thrle years has been morall morally y ana religiously speaking very loose the Me feebleness of mr mei dobbins health made it necessary for him to tol leav e v these details to his hig chief clerk aad we presume amr fr tout ey hais haas has not had ad time to attend tg such jmatte rs and they have bave ave been bie in trusted ea to the same faithless ims hahns if there ayer iver eyer ever vas was a time when the needed praying for it Js is just n now I 1 ow a LW and we recommend amen mr secretary to haul aboard his bis piety tacks ordet to duty all the chaplins chap lifs he has haa places for and aed it may be with thi their eli elf help the ship of state will weather feather the storm tl X |