Corropeniture.
PRESBYTERIAN RE-UNION, AGAIN
The propositions following are worthy
of memory and repetition—viewed as
practical, utilitarian, righteous, safe and
applicable 'to oar present relations,
namely :
1. Pesti= lente : make haste slowly;
precipitation, in all kinds of i nternettrion al
diplomacy, makes war oftener than
peace. SO—LOOK BEFORE you LEAP.
Gct married in a hurry and repent at
your leisure—when leisure itself is in
tolerable. Fools get married, often
fashionably and inconsiderately.; as very
often—without prayer; and so• consider
very much—afterward, to little or no
advantage. Ponder the path of thy feet
and let all thy ways be established. Prov.
4 : Zti. hence we reiterate :
1. LET WELL ENOUGH. AMINE. All
changes are perilous; as adventure in
volves novelties, where often distress
and regret are suddenly improvised, and
nob' so soon, redressed. At present the
status of our denomination, our entire
organization, though not without faults
and dangers, with some .er many of
the , corrigenda of human imperfection ;
yet, on the Whole, is it comparatively
prosperous, homogeneous, large, nation
al, powerful; with freedom, as well as
order; with UNION, at once fraternal,
•cordial, principled, as well as exemplary,
if not incomparable. No change, I say,
land so do Many others, 'that is only
equivocally fOr the "better an experi
ment rather than a demonstration.
3. At present our reciprocal relations
are good, principled, improving; on the
ascending scale; beneficent; happy.
;Let brOherly'love continue. We are hap
, pier, in our present positions -and rela
tions, mt , judice, than, too probably, we
-might be, by any' amalgamation or
organic union, that ws could, in all
probability, command or enact, at pre . -
•eent. There are facts and reasons for
- •
4. One quality . of wisdom, rare as
-excellent, is FORESIGHT-t 0 look ahead;
to weigh probabilities of the future ;
while affected practically with the facts
of the past. Here—is arvolattie; much
amread by the million; but full of ,sug
(Potions which it were dangerous to
-wait, or ignore, and quite worthy of
our care to understand and appreciate!
• 5. On the grand and copious topic of
theology—or theosophy, as qualifying, the
former, our times are already_ much
changed; perhaps peculiar. War, and
many other pressures and specialties,
affect our present state and relations;
:asalso our habits and characteristics :
and these accomplish a lull, a present
period of quietude and inertness, whic,h
may •be what seamen 'term—only. a
treacherous 'calm:
Such is Viz LOVE OP POWNIL, as a prim
,:
ciple insidious and malign, yet a quality
of our common 'character, as apostate
and depraved men, as at beat partially
sanctified Christians, that history, expe
rience—as' all older men, rather than
juniors, know; and, 'hence all sound
wisdom, too, require us to be.wary and
chary, very-circumspectly cautions, in
favoring: or consummating an organic
re-union`; especially where the greater
certainty - of peace, benignity and bro
therly accord, as well as beneficent
co-operation, seems so palpably, at
present, Tto say to ns : Prefer a compara
tive certainty—to any uncertainty ! •
Again—whatever may be at once
more practicable and safe, and..so de
sirable, for the future, may be now only
obstructed, and is postponed to a far
remoter period, by any precipitation, as
things are We may dash our best
hopes of organized oneness restored to
our two kindred. bodies, by any action
that anticipates the best time; that pre
cipitates what is not yet : mature. For
.the present, we must wait; as we cannot
hasten the ripening process, or make
the sunshine and the rain.
Organizatioe,And especially organ ized
unity, with the word and the idea of
ecumenical superadded, becomes often
very fallacious; as well as very tempt
ing ; and very papistical too! It was
one of the anti-Christian hallucinations,
that induced the lethean slumbers of
the church, in the deadly night of the
dark ages! And—
In
the beginning, it was not so. The
grander and the more heavenly idea of
the apostolic age was--moaAL UNION !
the unity of the Spirit and the bond of
peace. The other kind is more—milita
ry ! It savors leas of Christ, more of
Cesar. It was tried by the crusaders
of the centuries twelve • and thirteen—
and how much good did pit to them?
Was Christianity honored? was piety,
eusebeia, revived and pro
.
moted*by it? 'Let history reply.
Our nation is itself unique; one of its
own'Classi yet; ail it was at the
beginning of the present century, when
our third President, in his inaugural,
reniarked, that we were young and had
a future of unknown Taiga before
us; tho . ugh then launched " on the fall
tide of successful experiment." Alas I
the experiment is yet incomplete. The
disruption .of our noble, national, and
beloved church, done so wickedly—l
must sary—land mainly, at the time,
precipitated by two " juvo - uile patri
archs," was the pioneer, as well as the
harbinger of our now—almost—bisected
nation:! Jeff. Davis, with his fierce and
perjured co-traitors, was Ite next dis
tinguished exscinder—an d 'hence we say - :
Wait, - at least to see the end of this
other wickedness, in the State, that is,
in the nation ! In calmer tithes, w e
Aral know more, and probably be wiser
than now, *to consider and comprehend
the interests of the , really unigenous
kingdom - of OEMs; in our couhtry.and
our World
If our nationality is ever gloriously
restored, and more .firmly established—
as we hope and pray—with its arch of
magnificence, sublime and conspicuous
afar, as it towers high and grand to the
invidious eye of Europe, from the
Atlantic to the pacific coast, all gemmed
with stars, forty or more States, in ouR
NATIONAL UNION, I: should never think
of one only, but rather. of• FIVE on sm.
CO-ORDINATE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES ; in
fraternal correspondence, yet with dis
tinct territoriatj urisdiction s—while only
the more united, spiritually, morally,
beneficently, usefully, gloriously; urging
the common cause forward and onward
—till the kingdom, and dominion, and the
greatness of the kingdom under the whole
heaven.shallbe given TO THE PEOPLE of the
saints of the Most • High, whose kingdom is
an everlasting kingdom, and alt dominions
shall serve and obey Him. •Daniel 7 : 27.
Amen ! Even so come, Lord Jesus.
SAMUEL HARsoN COX.
NEw r Yonscalay,2, 1864.
LETTME FROM DR. TUOTIN.
WitSEINGTON CITY, May 2d,.1864
THE EDITOR OF THE AMERICAN PRES
BYTERIAN--BeV. and Dear Bro.: I have
read and re-read your able and discrim
inating editorial of last week, and also
the equally able and discriminating
letter. of Dr. Cox, on the subject of re
union. Whilst I was charmed with the
lovely spirit which pervaded both these
articles, I was a-little bewildered at one
or two of the positions on which you
seemed inclined to insist. The eupho
nious apothegm, "let, by-goeies be by
gones," which imparts peculiar signifi
gancy, as you seem to think, to one of
the resolutions of the Potomac Presby
tery, does not seem, in some of its
:aspects, to meet your ready and cheerful
acquiescence. Now I am sure you will
pardon the nuthor of the resolution in
which the captivating phrase occurs,
when he, reminds you that the man
whom you all delight to honor found it
convenient to employ it in the discus.
sions of your last Assembly, in reference
to the very subject which now engages
my feeble pen.- It so happened, in the
Providence of God, that I was a •member
of the Assem hly in 1831, which met in the
First Presbyterian Church in your city,
when the memorable sermon, entitled
" The Way of. Salvation," was read, con.
sidered : and decided upon. I voted with
the overwhelming majority, them being,
I think, but one dissenting voice, 443 sus
tain the explanations made by its pions
and gifted, author, for the of
which was said to exist in the structure
of that discourse. When the subjee,t, in
another form, was resumed, . I watched
with intense anxiety, from my Virginia
home—alas! for Virginia—all the sub
sequent proceedings in the several courts
of the church, until the case culminated
in the final, decision of the:General As
sembly. And when I saw Mr. Barnes
rise in his place in your last Assembly,
during the progress.of that scene.w i hicli
broke up the fountains of so' Many
hearts, and, after drawing
: a vivid con
trast between the proceedings of that
hour and those of former years in: the
same place, and when. I heard him ex
claim, in , the sublime spirit of his blessed
Raster, "Let by-gones be. by-gones," I
felt as, if Victory, clad iv. the robes of
light and love, had already alighted on
the banner of re-union. ,
While •framing the resolutions which
have given birth to this communication,
the scene to which I 'have referred was
passing, like a panoramic vision, before
my view, and thought I could safely
reiterate what had been , endorsed by
such authority ; and that my excellent
friend of, the AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN,
an& all the good people whom he so
faithfully represents, would say Amen
If the admirable and eloquent address
of your :last moderator, Rev. Henry B.
Smith, D. D., of New York,, in response
to the words of . greeting from- the dele
gate who represented, the Assembly
which met at. Peoria, 111., ; is,_to. be re
ceived as the system of doctrines and
polity held by the Assombly which mot
in Bhiladelphia in May,11863; theill anis
quite sure that we are already one in
sentiment, in all essential particulars,
and that no sacrifice of principle can
possibly be demanded in the reeonstrne-
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1864.
tion of the Presbyterian Church. It
was Iny good fortune to study Divinity
under that profound scholar and theolo
gian, the Rev. Dr. Banks, in a seminary
of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church, one of" the most straitest sects
of our religion," with lifarkii Medulla for
a theological text book, yet I confess
my inability, maugre this training, to
discover even a a shadow cif heresy of
any kind in that address.
With respect to other and. subordi
nate subjects, I would respectfully sug
gest, that a spirit of concession, the scone
that animated our fathers of precious.
memory, in the construction of our'
blessed Government, must characterize.
all our deliberations or as Mirabeau said
in reference to another and a different
subject, "nothing will be done." If
either branch of the church shall substi
tute opinions for principles and then.in
dulge in severe :and useless exactions;
instead of peace and unity, we shall
soon find ourselves where we were
when the tocsin of war first called us to
arms.!
These bumble 'thoughts are not de
signed as arguments aiming to secure
the triumph of some specific !node of
accomplishing favorite object, but
merely as suggestions or expressions of
opinion with a 'hope of eliciting light
and information, on a subject which
cannot fail to interest every pious
heart.
Raving introduced the name, of my
dear and excellent friend, Dr. Cox, I
cannot close this communication, al
ready somewhat protracted, without
expressing my obligations for the grati
fication he &fiords me, in common with
scores of others, by the productions of his.
fruitful pen. It may subject-me to the
charge of temerity to record-even a par
tial dissent from, one so distinguished
for enlightened judgment and extensive
experience; land yet I feel 'almost in
clined to venture the suggestion, that
his last letter has placed himsin a, some
what ambiguous position in reference to
re-union.
Festine. lente might be an appropriate
watchword, if theSe two sections of the
Sacramental Host, Were moving towards
each other with the fire of bate gleam
ing from their eyes, and the weapons of
war glittering in their hands. tßut when
they advance towards each other, dis•
playing the emblems of love and the
symbols of pea,ce; it strikes .a:a‘S. that
Yestina, without the adverbial append
dix, would be better. 'Hasten, not as
the eagle to his prey, but as the dove
to its window. But while I say this, I
do not wish to be eihrolled among those
fast brethren of whom my venerated
friend speaks,. andwho, by hasty and
premature action, would produce a con
dition •of things which would render our
" last state worse than the first." In
the language of one of the resolutions of
the Presbytery of Potomac, desire
that every step should be taken .with.
calm deliberation, and devout prayerful
ness to "the Father of Lights, for that
wisdom which eonleth down from above
and which is profitable to direct."
One of tbe principal objections which
might be urged against unnecessary de
lay is the financial aspects of the tease.
By our continued separation, we, great
ly augment the demands upon the Lord'a
treasury and render ourselves liable to
the imputation of having " wasted His'
goods." No inconsiderable portion of,
our ecclesiastical expenditures is from
the hard earnings of the Lord's poor,.
and He who sits ." over against the
Treasury" will not permit even the
widow's mite to be wasted or squander
ed. with impunity. Now it is a fact
which requires no argument to prove,
that in this particular, neither branch
of our denomination ie 'free from cen
sure. By maintaining .our separate or
ganizations, we have in many cases un
necessarily doubled the expenses of our
respective agencies. We, have main
tained ttoo splendid and costly jamilY
establishments where ,but one was need
ed, and this has been done , by drafts on
an exchequer replenished, to no incon-_
siderable extent, by the earnings of, the
widow and the fatherless. Can this
continue causelessly for a 'Single day,
and we remain, innocent ?
Within the reach of ordinary vision
from where I now sit, there are. two
Presbyterian churches, representing the
two branches of our denomination.
These churches ,are within a stone's
throw of each other and occupy a por
tion of the, city not at all, prolific of
Presbyterian material, and where, con
sequently, one church would amply
meet the necessities of the people. Be
sides the unnecessary outlay of money
in. the erection, of the surplus building,
there has been from the congregation
belonging to our denomination, a drain
annually, upon, the Board of ;Missions,
for the,sum of $5OO or $6OO for the last,
ten or twelve years, for::. the support of
the minister; and I presume the same,
state of things to some extent, exists inl
the other congregation, and is likely to ,
continue for years to come, if they con
tinne apart. If' these churches were
united, as' they ought to-be, without de
lay, there would be not only the saving
of that amount for some other field
where the people are starving for the
bread of life, but also the gain of a min
ister to supply that destitute field.
This is a specimen, as all of us know, of
numerous other cases of a similar kind
all over the land. I reiterate the ques
tion, can this-state of things causelessly
continue and we remain innocent ?
With many thanks for your uniform
courtesy, I remain very sincerely and
affectionately your brother in Christ.
SEPTIMUS TUSTIN'
LETTER, FROM CINCINNATI.
OIITOINNAT4 0., April 2841864
This great and , rapidly growing city
is not in a very prosperous and hopeful
religious condition. Always distinguish
ed for intense devotion to secular pur
suits, it is now, mere intensely so than
ever, and this supreme absorption in
business leaves but little time for atten
tion to, and 'culture of, the higher and
infinitely better interests of religion
and spiritual care for the soul. Pleasure
follows in the•train of material pros
perity, and strengthens the counteract
ing ihfluences, and prevents thought
and devotion to the interests of a spirit
al Christianity. ,No city, perhaps, on
the continent, has made greater pro-
grossin all: the elements of a material
prosperity,-and proportionably less ad
vanes 'in bringing the two hundred'
thousand inhabitants under the positive
and practical power of the Gospel.
This is not attributable to the want of
organic and vital Christian . force, for
the city has its multitude of evangelical
churches filled with able and excellent
ministers. The' cause is in the absorp
tion of the members of the churches, as
well as the masses of the people, in the
accumulation of wealth. There is far
less of the-wealth of this city sanctified
to holy and benevolent purposes, and
fewer wealthy , men devoted to 'active
personal efforts for the religious im
provement and salvation of the masses,
than in most of the great cities of the
Union. Many of the churches have
wealthy- members and some of them
men immensely rich, yet there seems to
be but little consecration of their money,
time and personal efforts to thing's per 2
taining to the, religious regeneration of
the city. The war has but
_increased
this -spiritual lethargy whilst it has
multiplied wealth and intensified the
passion for money-making.
The Christian and. Sanitary organiza
tions for the spiritual and temporal good
,of the noble soldiers, are accomplishing
their heavenly and patriotic, missions,
and. reflect great honor on the Christian
patriotism of the city. The United
States Christian Commission, in this
Western Branch, is under the superin
tendence of Mr. Chamberlain, an elder
in one of , the Old School Presbyterian
churches, and, like that Christian and
patriotic nobleman of your city, George
H. Stuart, devotes himself, his time, his
-means, with the greatest liberality, to
the sublime work of-blessing and saving
the soldiers. These two distinguished
workers in their fields of Christian
labor, through the U.S. Christian Com
mission, have called and will continue
tp nail down upon them the benedictions
of our soldiers, the gratitude of all
lovers of the country and the smiles of
heaven. -
LANE SEMINARY
During my short sojourn in this city
I visited Lane Seminary, and had the
pleasure of seeing the officers of that
western school of the Prophets. Dr.
Allen, who has been laboring in the
west for a generation, and mostly in
connection with Lane Seminary, bears
the marks of a hard worker and of
advancing years. Ile has accomplished
a glorious work for Christianity and the
Presbyterian church, and will wear a
bright, crown above, as he now has the
fervent affection of thousands on 'earth
who have been richly blessed by his
Christian labors.
Professor Day, his worthy associate,
is at work, con , amore, in his theological
studies and literary pursuits, and adorns
his chair by his rich learning, his Chris
tian urbanity, his genial, nature, and
the puyity and correctness of his taste.
He is eminently qualified, by nature
and grace; for a theological profe,ssor,
and is a model to young ministers. He
is exerting,through the Eclectic Theologi
cal Review, which he edits, , a fine influ
ence on the ministry and churches at
large, in diffusing choice theological
literature, and that monthly work, at
one dollar per year, is worthy of a wide
circulation. The Theological Library
of Cincinnati, also created through Pro
fessor Day's labors, and in which all
evangelical ministers co-operate, is pro
gressing well and, promises to 'be' .`a
perman'ent - and' instit&
tiOn.' 'ha's' alr'eady'seitiral •thOtihand
volumes of choice books.
THE CEMETERY.
I walked through the cemetery close
to Lane Seminary, where sleep the
buried dead, some of whom I knew a
generation ago, and others in more mod
ern days; and who have done their
work and gone to their reward. In this
spot rests the remains of the first wife
of Di.. Thomas Brainerd, the popular
and beloved pastor of the Pine Street
Church of your city. The Doctor, thirty
years ago, then simply Rev. Mr. Brain
erd, was a faithful and able Christian
workman in this field of western labor,
and was pastor of a church in this city,
and editor of a religious paper, the best
ever published in the West; besides
doing much missionary work in the
feeble churches in regions around the
city. His name is often mentioned now
with fresh and fragrant remembrance,
by many in the city, and in the churches
and towns adjacent. He was in the
midst of these labors of his earlier min
istry when his wife, a' Christian woman
of high culture, refinement, excellence
and piety, suddenly left him for heaven:
She fell a victim to the cholera, in June
1835, and her remains have rested ever
since in the Walnut Hill cemetery, near
to Lane Seminary. It is a beautful
spot by nature, but sadly neglected by
art. Christianity beautifies whatever it
touches; and beingso near to an aesthetic
School of Religion, and surrounded by
such cultivated and Christian families,
this cemetery should, in taste, in beauty,
and' in attraction, be a model to reflect
the refinement and finish of Christian
culture. After placing a beautiful ever
green over the grave of Mrs. Sarah J.
Brainerd, ; as a token of personal re
membrance, and a symbol of her happy
immortality, I left that sacred spot,
praying that the good people of Walnut
'Hills would soon complete the work
already begun, of giving greater attrac
tions to• "God's Acre," where rest His
dear saints and their dearest friends.
COLLEGE HILL
I also visited College Hill, six miles
from the city; the site of Farmers'
College and the Ohio Female College.
There is only one church on the Hill
—the New School Presbyterian Church
—which is under the pastoral care of
Rev. Mr. Babb, who resides there, and
who has been for ten or twelve years,
and now is, the excellent editor of the
Christian Herald—a family religions pa
per of a high order, and which is grow
ing in popularity and power in the
Presbyterian Chareh of the west.
In the Church at. College Hill there
has been in progress, for several weeks,
a precious and powerful revival. The
number indulging a hope.is over 100; a
large portion of whom are the young
ladies of the Female College. Farmers'
College, and the people on the Hill also
share in the work of grace, and the in
fluence is happy and extensive.
The grave of Dr. Robert H. Bishop,
for many years President of Miami
University, and subsequently a Profes-
J3or in Farmers' College is near the
college building, and is a mound some
40 feet in circumference and 8 feet high.
His coffin was laid on the surface of the
ground and the mound raised over it
-and covered with a green:sod. Tbis
singular mode of burial was in acdord
ance with his last directions, and con
forms to the ancient custom of the people
of Scotland; of which country he was a
native. The students have encircled
the mound with evergreens, as a token
to his exalted virtues. Dr. Bishop was
a good and, in many respects, a great
man. No President was ever more. be
loved by the thousands of students who
were, first to last, under his instructions;
and he has done more to mould the edu
cational and Christian destiny of the
west than any other man living or dead.
I knew him forty years, was six years
under his, immediate ,instruction, was
baptized by him when a young • student,
and, with grateful reverence for his
blessed memory and eminently holy
character, I rejoiced in the privilege of
walking, , this bright April morning,
around: his grave, and praising God that
,the Church, the country, and ,the cause
of Christian education had been, richly
blessed by his, piety and sanctified
learning. The memory of the just is
indeed blessed. B. F. M.
PRESENT POSITION . AND RELATIONS
OF THE PAPACY.
Every power now visibly growing is
either anti-Papal, or based upon princi
ples which are fatal, not, indeed, neces
sarily to the Catholic faith, but to lll
tramontane authoritY. Already, three
of the five great powers which avowedly
regulate Europe are' openly anti-Catho
lic, two of them as bitterly so as if they
had just seceded. Neither England il,or
Russia, the one 'from eligious feeling
and the other from a dynastic policy,
'will ever make terms with :Borne; and
though Prussia is a little less hostile,
its influence can never be
,reckoned oii
by. the OaTuarifia, except when 'Berlin
happens for some momentary - end to be'
in acCordwvit rYienea.` , The mOe fpo`w---
e fal of ally. new , 2States, ctilei 'Amerlegn
Union, though without a State religion,
is at heart hostile to Catholicism even
as a faith,—it is the only belief candi
dates for the presidetey have ever had
to deny,—and its political organiza.: r ,
is of itself fatal to that "discipline" an d
"authority" and "loving obedience' ,
which the Papacy hopes to enfor ce .
Wherever men can say what they
and write as they please and read 'what
seems to them interesting, schism is
sooner or later as certain as differenc e
of opinion. On the other hand, th e
great Catholic nations, so far from ad
vancing, have declined till, with the ex.
ception of France, they are scarcely
living influences, have certainly no
propagandist force..,Spain has sank to
the third rank; Austria, though still
strong, is powerful only because she
giving up the idea which made her ac.
ceptable to Rome., Poland has disal.
peered ; the Catholic population of Ire.
land is disappearing; the bishoprics or
the •Rhine are ruled by a Protestant
house; Bavaria has entered the pati,
of scientific inquiry, and the single Stat,
in Europe which is at once new an,,
great and Catholic, is at open and irre
coneilable war with Rome, disbelieve,
in infallibility, and declares that eccles.
astics must obey a law made by civilians
who need not as a matter of course
belong to the faith. • Throughout th. ,
world, indeed, the Papacy wins the game
I only in Belgium and Spain, and even
there its authority is denied by sections
of the population whom its utmost
strength is taxed to keep from open
revolt. Two facts, indeed, will reveal
the full extent of its weakness. There
is not a country in Europe save Belgium
and Austria where the whole strength
of the Papacy, exerted with almost
frantic energy, has availed to avert the
secularization of the mass of church
lands. There is not one, Austria in
cluded, in which the Papacy can claim
a rapidly increasing population. In
Asia, the Portuguese adhere to their
concordat with a pertinacity which
makes them practically independent,
and though the Philippines are still
Spanish and the agents of the Propa
geode, are protected in Atm, still Eng
lish authority rules India, and English
influence dominates China, and the
future in those regions belongs to a
colony in which Catholics may be nu
merous, but Ultramontanism will have
no chance. In Africa Catholic Europe
makes no way in - Algeria, while Protes•
taut Europe iefilling up the Cape, and
in America, every State south of the
Rio Grande has quarrelled more or less
a l'outrance with the Papacy and its
agents,—quarrelled till Pius himself
has thundered out allocutions which are
only removed by their technical form
from sentences of excommunication
Every one now tries the clergy before
civil tribunals, seizes or taxes church
lands, and insists upon civil sanction as
requisite to the validity of Papal bulls.
If it were not for the arm of Napoleon.
the dominion of the. Papacy, the regio ,
within which the Church as an organiza
tion as powerful as the State and a
faiths save one proscribed, would be re.
Weed. to Spurn:' -tide — which never
attacks, but never ceases to rise threat
ens the Papal Church as a great organi
zation "with a gradual subme'rcrenc,) "
r, •
NEW REGULATIONS FOR ARMY CHAP
LAOS.
Believing it will aid, as well as gratify
Army Chaplains, who read our paper,
and from the remoteness of their posi•
tion, or other canses,may otherwise have .•
no means of gaining the information, we
publish the new law an Army Chaplains
which was approved by the President of
the United States on the 9th of April
and to which we called attention in a
recent issue, and would suggest that the
religions press of the country pursue
the. same csurse•
Be it enacted by the - Senate and House of Rep
re.sentativeLgt the- United States of America it
Congross . assentbled, That the rank of a Chap
lain withimeeommand, the -- regular and
volunteer- service-.Of 'the. 'United States, i.
hereby, recognized. ,Chaplainti shall be borne
on the field and staff rolls 'next after the
surgeons,-a.ud Shall wear such uniform as is
or may be prescribed, by the army regula
tions as other of f icers of the army. They shall
be entitled to draw forage for two horsee•
and when assigned to hospitals, posts, or
forts, while they are so assigned, without the
privilege of commutation, subject to the
same conditions and limitations as are now
by law provided in the case of surgeons.
When iabsent from duty with leave, or
on account of sicknesi, - or other disability.
or when held by the enemy as prisoners.
they shall be subject to no other diminution
or loss of pay and allowances than other
officers in the military service are under like
circumstances. And chaplains who have
Oeen absent from duty, by,reasons of wounds
or sickness. or When held as prisoners in
the hands of: the enemy, shall be entitled to
.receive full pay without rations during such
absence.
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SE°. 2. And be it further enacted. That the
act approved July.fourteenth, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-two, entitled " An act tc
grant pensions," is hereby so amended,as
include chaplains in the regular and volun
teen forces of the army , : 'Provided, That the
pension to which a chaplain shall be entitled
for a total' disability shall be twenty dollar:
per month, and all the provisions of the act
to . which this section is.an amendment shall
apply to and embrace the widows, children,
mothers, and sisters of chaplains of the land
forces who have died since•thafourth day of
March, eighteen hundred and sixty-one. or
shall die of wounds or diaeaSei'contracted in
the service of the United-States, and while
such chaplains are or, shall be in the line of
their duty.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty-of chaplains in the mi/itn7
service-of. the .United :S ta,tes to make month
ly reports to' 'the Adjutant General of the
'Army, through the usual military channeis•
or the moral condition , and of .the genfral
history , of the regiments,. hospitals, or posts
to whic6 they may be'attached ; and it shall
be the' duty of all commanders of regiments.
hospitals, and posts to render such facilities
as will, aid in the discharge of the duties as-
Signed id thein'by the GoVertinient.
SEC. 4: And to id !alike! enacted, That all
atartlains- tfie,tflaiAfail , ; (mr vice of the
Tluite,l4,,States shall hold . appropriate rell
iiOns biirial'of soldiers who
may die in the command to which they are
assigned to duty, and it shall be their du T)
to hold public religious services at least
each Sabbath, when practicable.