Show CHAPLAIN MCABE Chaplain McCabe was a bishop of the Methodist l Episcopal church hurch Bishop Bristol has written his life ife From a review of it in an eastern paper we glean some ome facts which bich are worth repeating His I-his title itle chaplain dates back to the the- civil war He went to the front with the O One e Hundred and Twenty- Twenty second Ohio regiment as a spiritual adviser and corn com com I I forter orter He was finally sent to Libby prison and this is s the way it happened After Alter a great battle the chaplain stayed behind to help the doctors care for forthe forthe the wounded In his lecture he lie used to tell what happened in this way war A rebel provost marshal came camo up and wo o were taken into the tho pres presence nce of Gen J. J B. B Gordon and when ho he found what we wo were doin doing ho said Let them havo fifty soldiers andaU andall and nud all aU tho the ambulances they ther want to help holp get their wounded off the field held II When we had bad finished our work wo went to see eo General Early who had by bv this time timo a assumed command They made mo ma spokesman of the party part and I addressed him thus General Gen Gen eral cral Early Earl wo are aro a company of sur surgeons eons and chaplains ch who have o lavo stayed behind to look Jook aft after r our wounded wo we have finished fin fin- shed our work and aid would liko like very much to bo sent Bent through h to o our regiment Ho smiled and turning to me said saia You arc are a preacher are arc you I answered that I r wa was Well said mo me you HOU preachers have havo dono done more moro to brin brinon bring on this war than anybody and Im I'm going oin to send you rou to Richmond To Richmond said I that is miles mites away and itis itis it itis is is only thirty miles to Harpers Harper's Ferry and wo we would woud rather go o to Harpers Harper's Ferry They tell mo me you have bave shouting been On IOn to Richmond 1 for or a Ion long time 11 he nc said and to Richmond you shall go o. o In the thc prison he lie was the tho life of all about him by bylis his lis marvelous cheerfulness ness and helpfulness He was wasa a wonderful singer with a voice of great sweetness and power The night after his arrival in the prison he be ic organized a quartette and presently the prisoners listened to the songs the they 10 l. l The book tells how one y a the chaplain was on ona ona onit a it railway tram train and as he read the newspaper his eye fell upon the report of the free thinkers' thinkers con con- in iii which Colonel Ingersoll had said in an address Churches are dying out all over oyer the land The They are arc struck with d death ath At the first station on the line the chaplain left the train and sent this telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram Dear Robert Robert Robert-AU All hail the pf of Jesus' Jesus name We Ye are building more than one Methodist church for every da day in the in-the the year and propose to tomake tomake make it two a day C. C C. C MCABE CABE He ile died t two o y years ars ago ago of apoplexy in New York When Then the stroke came he lie remarked This is the end of mc me I hope not said a n friend Yes he lie persisted this is the end end but t it its it's s 's all right Let nobody nobody no no- bod body be disturbed about it He lie Ie went into the beyond beyond be be- yond with a u soul devoid of all nIl fear |