Show army chaplains i J S 44 i fremb eronie Ero niB F taylors letters to tile the of chicago Avii till 0 of ions did you ever I 1 nake make one it at a fil field eld pi caching at the fiorit if not lot I 1 must give you a homey 13 little picture I 1 saw bestel elty which by the calendar was sunday blundering past a lusty camp the tents tta stained ined and I 1 ent I 1 caine upon a group of about as many as met of old in in an upper tipper char chamber riber and not an all officer al liong then them unless it might be a sergeant they heated scaled upon logs and the chaplain was just leading oil off in ill a hymn that floated up tip and was lost like a bird in a storm amid the clash eubands of bands and tho the rumble of army wagons in the valley below the chaplain wore a hat with a feather in it that lie might have been born in for any evidence I 1 have to the conti ary for dibi dining id tile the services praise player and preaching the voice came out from beneath the hat with a feather in it perhaps it would have sti uck yon as irreverent but it may be that lie he tile the tune of the wolf who talked hoarsely hoa isely with little red aiding hood because lie he had bad a cold in in his head at the heels of tile the chaplain as lie he preached a kettle was bubbling minn 0 over a fia aho e and a soldier boy on oil his bis knees beside it was ap apparently parent ly worshiping the hardware but lie he was no ito idolater for all that since a closer look discovered him fishing in it for something with a folk foik around the preacher but just out of saimon lange boys were smoking 0 Ta taming ining chatting leading having a frolic the voice of a muleteer came distinctly up from below as lie he damned tile the hearts of his six in hand for no no tn teamster nister I 1 ever headd was so 0 wild ay as to swear at a mules bhules soul the passing trains of ammunition crushed lains sentences in two and now and then them whistled a truant woid away with them but lie he kept right on clear earnest sensible no matter for tile the hat with a feather in it and I 1 could not help feeling a profound pio found respect for the tho preacher and the little group around his feet f act the result of my observation of chaplains is alicade a matter of record in your columns but I 1 must say bay that I 1 have seen scon little reason to vary my opinion that there is no of officer fl in a legi regiment ment between cook and colonel so utterly useless as a an n inefficient chaplain nor so decidedly dam a gillas 0 an unworthy one oie E said apiu 0 lane falle colonel to the question what hau we do with that rebel we have taken cen 1 he says lie is a chaplain 11 do I 1 I 1 le turned colonel d 1 n him wo wl ale aie out of a chaplain now the of total depravity dept amity isa I 1 sia good deal like the sinks sink in ill tile the on old timo time parsing when we found a wold woid and did not know what to do with it wo we called it an all adverb so people a aie 0 apt to credit an evil to total depravity when perhaps but for thorn thern it mi might lit not have existed at all tile the chaplain that colonel was just out of might have been a good man mail I 1 hut but lie was a 0 good man butof out of place ile he lacked to bairow boi row a woid from ali the at ai tillei ests the heavy metal y of ell did viol not carry guns gulls enough to insane respect ct one man mail like get gen lla howard waid commanding the ath cot coi ps P preaches sermons all the thi through thion ough gli without saying a wold woid that put ill all men around him upon their honor |