was ; made. Yonder lies the rebel 'host on he opposite side ofthe river! Yonder winds Ihe 'Rapidan. Andhere I am in this look out, the solentrwsight stillness, with the now sleeping hosts lying all around me ! 0, wbatlhoughts of the.past I 0, what thoughts of the present I.• 10,s,•what thoughts of the future, met me there,:and went through my mindAind sunk into my heart ; and how I knelt bey that board the:l, before I rolled my self in a soldier's blanket, and prayed as I never halve prayed before to the God of my fathers, for my country? I wish I had every man of you, every woman of you, every child of you 'f l aw seven days in that hut. I wish I could gn into Wall street and arrest by pow er and : ,tuthority those greedy, grasping, elutching,,7ervants of mammon, and set them down among these solders that they might learn a lessen, a nd come.back cured - of their idolatry, lifted out of .the ,deei?.. abasement and dark dtsradation of theii lot , e for gold. I wish I could take," every -poor 'miserable, . dyspeptic, clog-livered grumbler against the C overnmen t- and against the army, and Plant him there and let him learn a lesson from those self-desiring, self-sacrificing, death-wel coming soldiess about patriotism, about man liness ; and he would' come hoine a soberer and a stiller, if not n More, aCtively co-opera ting man. • There is no &ass of people, let me .say it; as av;hole, thateo comprehends the present crisis AS the private soldier in our army. There is no class of people .in this land, whose /mind is elevated to such broad views, whose heart expands to grasp such large in terests, .anyl open itself to pour out such sacrifices as those of the private soldier in our army to-dayl I could almost get down on my knees before some of those scarred regiments and worship the manhood thati saw there, .and thank G-od for that Christi anity that was also there, rising and tower ing above the manhood; glorious, pure, di vine. I should much like to Lake you there to night and endeavor to describe many of the scenes I saw, but the time will not permit it. I wish to.say a word about one subject, in order to set the Christian Commission in a true light in reference to the noble men who are serving in the army as chaplains. General Howard said that the — chaplaincy system was a failure in the army. He did not mean that the labors of the chaplains were likely to result in failure, by any means, but that the system by-which the govern ment supplied the regiments with chaplains is a failure. And so it is. We cannot have a religious bereau ; and unless we have it we cannot adequately take care of the religious initeresta.of the army. If we should attempt to plan such a bureau then the religions views, and denciminations would come up, and the government would be instantly palsied! We niust take the regulations as they are, and as far and as thoroughly as they can go, and then out of the heart and the hand and by the sons and daughters of the church add the rest. That remark of General Howard's has done good. Many.a statement that a man does not mean to be understood as it is, is just the thing God in tended him to say. lam glad he said it. While the sincere chaplain will understand it the moment it is explained, there were men who wanted to hear just that thing. There were bad men in the army, who went there for the salary of chaplain, and did not discharge the duty of the office. But these men have had a sifting. and they have fallen through. A man who _has gone into the chaplaincy of the army to take the critical care of souls, imperilled always, appointed, many of them, to die, when he comes to stand under fire as a chaplain must, will find that he has a conscience, and that con sciencelwill not let him stay longer, or al low hini to prostitute his place and neglect his duty. God has been terribly shaking the sieve, and it has dropped through these evil men, and now a nobler class of Chris tian ministers does not breathe or preach the Gospel than the chaplains in our army. They 4ie 00-operating heartily with the Christian Commission. The Christian Com naission is co-operating heartily with them; and the very highest testimony I had for the Christian Commission was the testi mony of chaplains. Let, me show you an in stance, The,son of Dr. Eastman, Secretary of the Tract Society, is a chaplain. His horse plunging during a battle, struck him on the knee-pan. His leg swelled and stiffened un til the pain became almost unendurable. When he could no longer stand he gave his horse up to a servant, and had himself to lie on the ground. The pain was intense.. Darkness settled over him. He had to take a wounded soldier's, place alone, that night. As he lay on his back suffering and thinking, he heard a voice—" 0, my God." He thought, can anybody be swearing in such a place as this ? He listened again, and a prayer be gan. It was a wounded soldier praying. How can I get to him?' was his first impulse. He tried to draw up his stiffened limb, the while setting his -teeth and clenching his hands for the pain. But lie could not rise. Then he drew his arm around a sapling, drew up his well foot, and tried to lift the other up and extend it without bending, that he might walk ; but he fell back in the effort with a heavy fall that jarred through him like a stab 1 He then thought, " I can roll." And over and over in pain he rolled in blood, and over dead bodies, until he fell against a dying man, and - there he preached Christ and prayed. At. length one of the line officers came Up and said, " Where's the chaplain ? Where's the chaplain? .one of the staff offi cers is dying ?" Here he is, here he is," cried: out the suffering hero. " Well, such an officei. is dying, can't you come and see him "1. cannot move. I haVe just rolled up along side of this dying man to : talk to hun."- " I. detail two men to carry you; shall they dO it r , Yes?' They took him gently up and carried him. And that live long night these two men rode him over the battle-field, and laid him down ip blolid beside bleeding, dying men—and he preached Christ to them and He had to look. up then, brethren ; he could look no other way from that position, not even into the face of the dying ; and with. God's stars shin- Mg down on him, and heaven bending 'over him, he had to preach Christ and pray? And there are score:s of just such chaplains. The Christian Commission has giVen them this Winter fifiy : four chapels in connection with their other iork in the brigades. Let me khow you how the chapel system operates. A chaplain in a regiment that had. been without one, d is said to have very an d • boys in it, that nothing can reduce to subjection and order, went around to these boys and said, " Boys, we are going to have a religious service to-night." " But where's the place ? It is cold December. Where shall we meet ?" " In the mess-tent; it is all the place I have." He appointed a cer tain .hotir. He went there. A little drum mer-boy came in. He waited for half an hound no one, else appeared, , By.and-hy the drUmmer-boY . ' Said; "I guess I can get one more.". He went ont., and brought in another drUmmeAiiy.' :By' the light of the fire he topk ,out his .Bible, knelt down and prayed—first ho prayed, and then the other twg. The next night five more came, mak ing seven in all. The - five said that while le was talking to the boys in the ine*tentfthey, were arotind,• butt didn't dare to come in. They had been prefeitors :df - their troubled conscience would notlet them rest while Ferviee was going on and they were not there ; so they had come to confess. The next night there were seAken. What should they do now for room? The Christian Coin miidon offered to cover their •chapel with canvas ,if they would get the:legs together and build the tent. They called up the men and asked them to volunteer. They were detailed by the Colonel for this work. They went to the woods, cut down the trees, dragged in the. logs, and made tent. that would hold 250 to 300 men. The tents are built just as the huts, only on a lawer scale, with a camas roof that lets in the light but no rain,.without windows, for they could not be glazed, and warmed and made com fortable as a AdepOt fOr the religious books and papers ofae Christian Commission, and for nightly preaching services. And what is the result. :I,preached there twice kwith the place so thronged that it was impossible for a soldier to move out of his, position after . he had 'once taken: it. , There 'was . a'prayer meeting held the last hight in thatregiment, which I did not attend, in order to test the spontaneousness, of this interest. The chapel was crowded again at the prayer-meeting, and fort,yfive communicants arenow numbered in that chapel, where - before were butfive ing professors of religion on the outside l I asked the history ,of chapel after chapel of the fifty-four alluded to, and in each ;of them there have been from ten to one hundred and fifty donversiculssfrom the;preaching af the Gospel this Whiter by faithful chaplains, aided by the agents of the Christian Com mission. Said I to a chaplain,. "Do you think the agent of the Christian 'Commission can make his way in all .eases?" " Well," said he, " I will tell yon an instance that happened in the experience of an agent of the Tract Society, which willillustrate to you I think satisfactorily, whether men with true .Christian, heart, and .wi,th tact, can do anything here. It was Uncle Johnny Vas sar,' of Poughkeepsie: The chaplain said we had a tough Colonel here, a hard, rough fel low, with whom nothing could be done. So it was thought best to set Uncly Johnny after him to see if he might not succeed in breaking down his hostility: The chaplain took him to the colonel's tent and introduced him. " Colonel, this is Uncle Johnny Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, who 'ha.s,conie doWn here to preach the Gospel to the soldiers." He look ed at him from head to foot, but did not offer him a seat. His staff was around him, but they did not move from their places, Uncle John, to the astonishment of the chaplain, moved to take a seat. " Get out of that !" growled the Colonel ; " don't sit on that bed.!' Well, now," said John meekly, "you wouldn't make an old man stand while you. youngsters there are sitting, would you?" - " Orderly, go get a benchi grumbled -the colonel. Uncle John sat, down. "COlonel, I am not down here , on my, own business, at all. I have come down 'to do these boys good. Some of these boys have got to die this Spring. You know it. You know that if you tell them to go and charge that bat tery they will go, and:you know that as sure as they go some of them will fall. Don't you want them prepared to die ? I wonder if you are prepared. You know a great many offi cers are killed—More in proportion that the men—are you prepared to die, colonel ? I have come down to help you in this matter, to help prepare your boys for death. Now, colonel' you won't be hard on an old man who comes. on: such an. errand as this. I, am going to . ask God 'to help you • and me , now, let .is pray !" lie didn't wait for the colonel to say yes or no ; he had his eyes shut from the begining, that he might not 'see the ex pression of assent or dis.sen4, and there kneelinv down he prayed fervently, spread it tall out before the Lord. What was his surprise 'hen he opened his eyes to find that the colonel and every one of his staff were on their knees. The colonel got up took Uncle John by both hands, and said to him, " Come to my mess-tent and eat your meals, and I will give you a place to sleep, and do every-: thing I can to, help you; if you say so, I will order the men out to hear you preach."; And he was the fast friend of Uncle John to. the end of his mission there. The young officers in the next regiment thought they would not let the old man off so easily • so one night after a weary day full spent in distributing tracts, and in remaining at an inquiry meeting in the evening, being very tired, and eager for the rest of pil low, they sent an orderly to rouse him from his tent and bring him to their mess-room. The poor man thought it was the case of some convicted , sinner in great distress of mind to whom he must go as soon as possible, He got up and went out, shivering in the cold, for it is terribly cold under the Blue Ridge with the snow piled up on the, moun tain. He got .to the tent. As he opened the door there stood on two logs of wood a keg of beer i One of the officers said, "Uncle Johnny, we have just got a keg of beer, and we didn't want,to be selfish, so be fore we tapped it we thought we would send for your " Well, now, ain't you ashamed, to get an old man out of his bed at this hour of the night to play such a trick as this ? But just remember, young men, you sent for me, didn't you ? I didn't send for you.: Very well, I will go now when I am ready; and you will get out—stepping back to the door of the tent,—when I am ready to let you. Now we will have a little meeting ; I have got you here, I am going to preach. Let us pray." Uncle John knelt down and prayed solemnly, earnestly, and pointedly for these wicked men. Their faces were long when he got. up again. Now Uncle Johnny will sing, and if you know the tune you will join in, " Thereis,afountain filled with blood." With heart and 'soul the old- man sung it,_ some of them humming the tune quite audi bly. Then he preached to them; and if he ,didn't, tell them,what they were . ; and what. GO& thought Of them, andhr . hat their .1 - itL would be if they didn't repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, then Paul never told the truth. Then he got down by his pulpit —not an, orthodox one by, any -means—and prayed againAind said God : bleSs you boys, and went off., There ,wasii;t, anything said about; that beer'bairel 'inYnno• the elher regi ments—not a word ! After Uncle John went back they got up a subscription forlim and sent a splendid testimonial to his wife, and to the. Tract Society, a petition that he might be sent back again. And there he is distributing books and papers and co-opera ting with the Christian Commission and chaplains to-day. •You see then that you can be heard in preaching the Gospel. No man is so icorri gible in the army but you can break him 'down. And I tell you, when it comes along towards March and April they are very sober. I passed along a regiment that had been : in twenty or twenty-one battles. I slept over night in their 'tent. Geri. Patrick sent for me to come to headquarters. Right in sight was the house of 'Gen. Carr, an old friend, Whered was at liberty to stay - whenever I . wanted in—but X wanted . if 'l' lived long enough to tell my grandchildren that in this war, I laid on a soldier's bed, that I ate a soldier's rations, that I kneeled down in' , a soldier's tent, that for one blessed week God let me take what he ,was taking, and endure what he was enduring. And I feel that it is one of the brightest spots in - this' dark era [ that l have been enabled in any way to iden- Aify ,mpelf with the. arrny lk There_iiiihat tent among those men.J. have Telt,.olg,what ztvehtitibe for God.; and for souls 1., Can ; I visit a tli!bit:sind 'Men' in inyillikee congregatiens in less than three, four, five or six-months? PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAT 12, 1864 tt would take me's.. year to :reach. them all ; and yet in five hours I came , with my tracts and visited a thousand men Wand said some thing face to face, with every soul, and pray ethwith the most de the n ' - An.one day I could do more ameing these isen than any pastor here could do in a- year among his people—because the men are .there in the company street before me by tens and hun dreds, and in a single acre .by ,thousands. Just look at the field! Now I should like to tell .:ycku how the. Christian Commission has supplemented the work , of thechaplains,ly its-Varicins stations. There is Bristow Station, and Brandy Sta tion, awl Warrenton Station, and±Culpepper Station, And Mitchell Staten, away o'ut two miles beyond, our piekets, where.two chapels have been built. L would like to tell you the records I have - here; of 100 conversions in one station, 200 in Bristow - Station, 150 to 200 .at%Warrenton Station, 200 odd at Cul peper Station—in all over .two thousand con.' versions in , 00nnection with fifteen stations of the Christian. Commission alone; and 1,500 of these are registered, with the regiment, h ome and :address ,of the man and his. family. This widening influence, oh, how great it will be! I would like for a moment also to call your attention to another item: Three men lived thirty-three clays at one of these sta tions, for $24,30, and lived as well as they wanted to, and received no other compensa tion but their living. Six stations under the care of Mr. Jenkins were subsisted six weeks for $360, that is $6O a station, and $lO a week. During these six weeks, there were 400 con s'ersions in these various stations—/ess than one dollar a man ! It cOsts a dollar to get a , good bottle of brandy for sanitary purposes, andit didn't cost a dollar here to save an im mortal soul forever-! Compare the two things and see where llie Christian Church has been lacking in the past—pouring 'its gifts in upon those who care for' the body, and withholdiwi in too great a measure from those who care for the soul. In conelusion let me give you briefly three reasons why I think we ought to raise the million dollars called for. One is the reason which the Jews gave to our Saviour when they' asked him on one occasion to work a miracle. They said, ." this man is worthy, for he loveth our nation," for he loveth our na. Lion. I say these soldiers are worthy for they loNie our nation. They do not any of them love war ; 'but they do love the nation ; and they are turning their hearts to the fatal stroke that they may testify their love to the nation. 'La me tell you an incident here. They were commanded to take a battery at 'Mine Run. At night they approached the battery and saw its strength.. It was one of" the strongest of the rebel earthworks. I rode, under it myself, and wondered: at it'. As day :light came, the men began to count the guns, to estimate the strength of the embrasures, and to scan those deadly weapons that were frowning down on them threatening to dis stroy them; Nine o'clock came and they were expecting the order to fall into line of battle. They crept up the hill; in .the clear Morning light and looked over the top of the formidable works once more, then went down and clustered around the chaplain,' and around Christians, and began to talk about the solemn things that were before them. A colonel came up and said, " Chaplain, put me on the „surgeon's board, and take that arm.off, and then excuse me for the rest of the day, and think it a fair bargain." The cry came to form in line of battle. Not ready yet to Move.. Stack arms? And then the boys—let's have one more look at the fort. They crept up again, saw the guns frowning and bayonets bristling behind . the fortification. They came back and began to empty their pockets, handing the contents of value, to the chaplain—a mother's picture, a wife's picture, a little group of sweet faced children. The chaplain took them all until he was loaded down and had to put them in the ambulance: Then he got paper and pen and wrote the ,boys' names on slips and pinned them fast to their ,shirts. They buckled up again and came 4gether in line of battle. There they stood ! Noble men ! And if Gen. Meade had said the word, they would have walked into that earthwork, and over it ! For they are worthy, they love our nation. Another reason. ,Their friends at home are worthy. I passed by the Herald office one night on my way to the Fulton Church just after a - battle had been fought. I shall never forget a face I saw there. They had just received the list of wounded. There I was a woman bending over the counter, ! talkingwith the, man who stood behind the desk, who was running his fingers carefully down a, column of names. The woman's eyes were set upon that finger, as if her whole soul were concentrated there. Her eye fol lowed as it reached the bottom of the column and turned to the top with still more eager, breathless intenseness. 0, I thought, here is one who is making a sacrifice. What sacrifice am I making ? . Again, one evening I went with my wife to the Five: Points to talk to the little mis sion children gathered there. As I was telling Of the work in the army and speaking of the work liefore us, I saw the handker chiefs come out and ,the tears fall ; and one rose to get a tumbler of water. Ah ! it flashed upon me, you have come down no* into the neighborhood -from Which many boys have gone. As soon as I had pronounced the benediction, I went down from the desk to a poor girl in black, and said, " My child, have you a friend inthe army ?" "Yes, my father, so and so, is in the army, sick." I could tell her I knew the agent of the Christian CommieSion therei and would tell him of the case. Another said, My boy is at Such a place, and another; - my brother is there • and I could promise them that -I would write to the COmmission's agents and they, would take a note'ef then : and do what they could in time of need. 'Then the poOr woman that fainted came 'up :to me, and said, "I wish. to show yousomething, sir:" It was a bundle of letters she clasped to her breast. And they clustered all around me, and asked, " Had I been to this part of the: army and to that, Was I at Vicksburg, at Newbern, at Chickamauga; and did I see their dear ones ?" .Ah 1 here were . lowly hearts fainting and ready, to fall, when the telegram comes . to • then" with stunning, crushing weight, •'that May delight - sow. speculators in stocks and gold 1 For the sake of the Ones at-home I plead. One reason more. My heart aches for re venge. My soul 'burns for revenge. Since reading of that terrible massacre at Fort Pillow I want revenge! and God gives me a, chance to plead for it. I want this kind of ,revenge—a million of dollars for the Christ= :Jan Commission to do what they have done in the past) pick up the Union soldier and the rebel soldier side by side, in God's name, and for the dear sake of Christ, do them the sanie • loving, tender office. Stieh revenge will be sweet now and sweet forever. I went into the house of some rebel:folks. In one which Tentered, the people stood off and looked at me. I commenced to talk. They said, "our.cause" and "your cause," "our army"'and your army." "Stop a,bit," said. 1..• I inn.a chriatian here, I am rot a soldier. I come from the Christian-C.6'mis sion, who were,on that dreadful fied of Gettysburg: Do: you' knew Who fough that Yes,. Gen. Meade," was tlie gruff a b ris att w le el . : 7 :Well; Gen.„;.Meade4 :414. • was them , ,teo„ taking , cam of ,)reur' we 'rided !•,461diers2f_: , :" What doyonittay?" ". -' metal* Meade's nephew was thee, tenderly ,armg for 'your' soldiers, carrying ice. cveam to a whole car load of them, .end putting it to. their: feeble lips. Do yeit understand us now ? You will by-and-hv " talked in that strain. Before I left I was ;aSkted to get: clown on my knees and have family worship with them. They took my name and resi dence and said, !` God bless you!" This was two miles away frcim our pickets. I went into the house of a Baptist Minister and told him, for my introduction, what theiChristian Commission had clone and were skiing, and he melted down and wept. His wife grasped me by the :hand: lie said, " When 'Ton go home don't-forgh us. Reineuiber us. Pray for us." I .cay we want to lay up za volcano pf coals of fire to pour down ein the leads:of these men, and conquer them in this way. Witt You 1 - ,,oar in the coals--a of aent' e We'll pour theni out • The yene,ribie Chairman, in a few words; here exhOrtek!! the 'audience to remeinber their , negro brethren, 'in their sympathies' an prayers, in the light of !the fire's' of Fart' .P.illOw; and willit'Ged had been 41.iji.i.i g -i n . i r thellast year in the way of-a,'wenderfuLenian ,cipation, in the breaking of the chains of the .oppressed, and to Oresent a thank-wire - tag for this merciful prorldence to the nation.. ' '• . { - ' ( , Dr. Mewtdn. now Announced ",the collee tion " as theiculminating point of interest in he whole Meeting. The sum alotted. to ,Philadeignalfor the -tpresent effort was fifty i ' thonSand dollars. It - was all to be raised that night. A god beginning had already been made in the,sitbscriptima of thirty-five. thousand ,dollars, ' A Ow of the more prominent do nors' names Were read, as follows :. , . , Jay Cooke & Cd, $5.000; John P. Crozer, $5.000: Capt. B. F. Loper, $50110; George H. Stuart, $5,000; M. W. Baldwin & CO., $3„000 ; Thomas Brake, $2500; James Graham, s 2,ooo;William BuCknell. $l,OOO Evans & Hassell, $1,000; WilliSlM S. Hansa!! &Bons, $1,000; S. & J. M. Flanagan, $1,000 ; ; A. J. Drexel, $1.000; John A. Brown, $1,000; William Mann. $600; Miss Elia: P. Shields4,Boo-; with thirteen subscriptions of prominent individuals,. firms, and corporations, for $5OO each. A large number of smaller sums make up the amount. Several sums hive been received since the meeting. The total sub scription 4rom Philadelphia, it is expected, will reach at least one hundred thousand dollars. We have it in our power, continued the Doctor, to send forth an influence from this meeting that shall be feft upon the hearts of our soldiers, that' shall make them more of men and heroes to face the difficulties and dangers before them, and to do the great work which God in his providence has called them to do. Let the response be worthy of these noble men and of the cause and coun try they serve. The meeting was now open for receiving subscriptions. The most spirited and earnest. exercises of the evening had .been reached. As it was, growing late, the two distinguished speakers, Bishop Simon, and •Dr. Smith, of Philadelphia, who had been promised in the programme, very properly yielded their set addresses to the spontaneous expressions of the hour from any who felt moved to add a. ;word or a subscription in behalf of the good 'cause. Under this course, which the meeting unpremeditatedly took, from the promptings of a benevolent : instinct and patriotic and Christian impulse, now thoroughly aroused, some of the most fervent and telling speeches lido matte. . - We counted ten of these Short appeals, each of which was estimated by the Chairman, in his own inimitable way, at its cash value. The utmost enthusiasm was ex cited, and before the meeting was closed Mr. Stuart had the pleasure to announce that the full amount, fifty thousand dollars, had 'been pledged. We shall give the outline of some of these remarks; as showing the tenor of them all. The Blind Widow's ]bite. In the first place, the Rev. Dr. Junkin stood expectant for some minutes, exciting the very dulcet ring of some silver pieces which he held in his hand and watching his opportunity, to offer them. The musical sound catching Mr. 'Stuart's ear, the DoctOr was called forth, and announced to the audi ence as the father-in-law of the late Stonewall Jackson. He said I tbinlis I have in my hand the largest contribution that will be given to night. This afternoon I addressed a very interesting congregation in the Widows' Asylum of this city; a large family of very venerable and beloved old ladies, many of whom are instant in prayer and supplication for ,the blessing of God upon the cause. While I was addressing them a young' man in regimentals came in, fresh from Fortress Monroe. His grandmother was in a little room in the rear of where I stood. She was not aware of his presence. In the course of my remarks I told the old ladies that there was to be a glorious meeting in behalf of the soldiers at Epiphany church to-night. After I had done speaking I went into the little room and saw the old grandmother •embrac ing over and over again her boy. Are you to go back, my son ? she asked. Yes ma'am, in three days more. Her eyes filled, her bosom heaved. I said to her, mother, you will have to submit, he is serving God' and his country, and you do well in giving up. You may do more. Fifty years ago, when I was .a student of theology,in the city of New York, my beloved teacher, Dr. Mason, used to say that one old woman that knew the way to the throne of. GOd's grace could do more to save the nation than twenty blas pheming Generals. understand you, sir," she said. I can pray. I will pray. I will.". And the tears rolled down her •venerable cheeks. But I passed on around the circle of aged ones. I stopped in front of a poor blind widow. She said to me do you expect to attend the meeting to-night? God permitting I do. Ah ! I• am blind, or I would go, too. But will you please to give this to the proper officers ? and. she handed me these silver pieces, four half dollars, all coined before the insurrection, the last dol lar of it coined during the administration of Pennsylvania's favored son ! (Laughter.) You can do more than this. Yes; said she, I do. My country has my prayers, This then (handing the money to Bishop lan vaine) is the poor old blind widow's mite. It'is much in the Spirit of power with whin]; it•comes. Hall who are here were to give proportionately as much, Mr. Chairman, your fity thousand dollars would be doabled before to-morrow's sun goes down. I told the ladies that there would be a gloiious meeting• at the Epiphany to-night, and I have not been disappointed. But if the lwily cause that has been here eo eloquently pleaded shall, be worthily sustained, there will be a glorious Epiphany for the army, a glorious Epiphany for the whole land, and a far more glorious Epiphany amid the throngs of angels rejoicing over the thou sands of souls converted unto God through the truth dispensed by the United States Christian Cqtumission. A Valuable 'Life' Preseiveo.. ' One of the most striking testimonies to to the work mad worth of the Commission, 'I is the case of.a young soldier of Dr. Shaw's church, in Rochester, who was wounded in i the lungs at the battle of %Gettysburg, and left on the field to die. The surgeon declar_ ed his wound:to 'be fatal. ke was sought -out by a delegate of the Clizistian Commis .sion, tenderly .cared for, was restored to health, and has since been elected a chap_ •lain of volunteers. This young chaplain, ,- thus snatched from the jaws of death, was ;present at the meeting, and delivered 'his (short, simple and touching testimony, and this heartfelt thanks to the friends of the in tstitutiOn that, runder God, had been the .means of saving:his life. He said.: • " iiy case is only one of hundreds, 'I Cali , tc.uly Say with gs'atitude to• God, that had it , not been for the. Christian Commission's agent I must havezierished on that field of -battle;'and `I "can echo the:prayer that goes up to- k night. 'from thougands of soldiers' hearts throughout:the army, 'God bless the ;Christian Commission l' I anire4ly now,to go forth to serve them in carrying on their blessed work in .behalf of, others." ' Mr. ,Stuart here spoke of the work Of .grace at Ringgold, 'Georgia, where within two aniles of the rebel, ickets over one hun :dred souls had in ten days enlisted under the , banner of Jesus. A worker in another station was so engaged in caring for souls that although his eloqoAnt pleadings were needed in our cities to ask for gold to carry on the work of the Commission, yet it was felt to'she wicked to draw him away - from the religious interest in the , midst of which God was blessing him so richly. Souls at i more precious than gold. A Surgeon's Testimony. The Rev. Dr. Buddington, of Brooklyn, . • presented the following testimony from the surgeon-in-chief of the artillery brigade of the fifth corps. After the doctor had preached to the Brooklyn 14th regiment in the Episcopal' church at Culpepper, not two weeks ago, this surgeon came to him and said that from his personal observation he wished to bear testimony to the indispensa ble value of the Christian Commissicth in the army. "If I had," said he, " money to any amount, every dollar that I had to give to the cause of Christ I would pay into the treasury of the Christian Commission, and I say this not from any knowledge of the offi cers of the institution, but simply from my knowledge and observation of its work in my own brigade and throughout the army/ The speaker also stated the fact that Gen. Burnside had invited an agent of the Chris tian Commission to accompany his army to do the holy work in the coming campaign , but that they were in instant need of two thotkaand dollars to raise a , horse and team before this offer could be accepted. Speech of Colonel Gregory. Colonel Gregory, of the 91st Pennsylvania volunteers, being called upon, responded as follows : I and certainly astonished, Mr. "Chairman, that you should call for a candle when there is so much light. I am happy, exceedingly happy in this meeting to night, never in my life more so. And I have reason to be. I wish to say now that 'I know what Dr. Kirk and the other gentlemen have related is true. I have seen it, I have felt it. I know all about the camp, how the soldier feels, hoW he feels when he lies on his back on the fields arid look 3 up to heaven, for I have lain there. Ali, we have the true spirit here to night. I thank God for it. It is just what the soldier wants. He wants just such sym pathy as has been , seen and expressed here for him. He wants your money. He wants your prayers. And he has them all, I see. Our cause is' the cause of God. It is the cause of truth. I can speak but little. Sol diershavebufilittle to say, but they have a great 1 : work to do. I feel to-night as many thou sands perhaps in the land feel. My jewels are in the front. My sons—all that. God has given me are there. I know not what they are doing to-night. But I trust in the living God they are doing their duty to their country. If they fall, let them go. God has them. They are in his charge. He will keep them. My friends, this Christian Commission has done a wonderful work in the army. P have seen their zeal; their efficiency. I have seen their labors result in good. I sent up are quest from my brigade for a covering for a chapel the day before I left. It came, and now the chaplain has reported a number of converted men there, and I bowed myself before God in thanksgiving, that the Com mission had covered our log tent and God had come down from on high and given us salvation. The American Army is well supplied as far as the body is concerned. Our noble Government gives us all the food we want, all the clothes we want, end every' comfort in the hospitals it can reach. But there is a mission for the Church of Christ ; it is to give us the gospel. Do this and all will be right. And to-night if Christians. in this country -shall do their duty, and our armies should go, forward to-morrow, - Gen. Grant will complier. If the Lord is with him he will conquer. If God is against us, and- we have yet •to suffer more, we must bow our selves still lower in the ,dust before our Maker. A wicked commanding general said to me once, "We shall never triumph, Col. Gregory, until We pray more." .1 believed him. Though he was a profane man,- he pointed out- our only trust, n where. all our. help must come. If God shall be against us because of our past iniquity, and our con nection with the sin of the nation, our com plicity and co-partnership with the cursed sys tem of oppression, we may have-to suffer more. If we are called upon to bear 'yet this, let us get still lower loefore God, and do more for the cause of Christ, in sending the gospel to our, soldiers, and maintaining a purer Chris tian Government, then all in the end will be thank Goa no doubtbaS ever crossed My mind as to the final result of t'hi's great struggle for our *nation's life. We shall triumph. • God: will give us victory. Only let us do our duty. I hope the fifty thousand 'dollars will be raised. I myself,- brethren, 'have been: a merohant. I know we . are prosperous in this country, as no other country ever was under such cireumstances God has given us great prosperity. On this account I fear. There is, I fear, More danger at home than in front to day. • The extravagance and sel fishness and vanity. at home may destroy us. Our own wickedness may destroy us, .the rebel army never can. Our principle in this War is right. It is Inst. We are fighting the battles of truth and of :liberty. • I should be at the front to-night, but for the Secretary of War who has. chained me down hereto take case : of the soldiers I - feel 'iiii r eaSy,.not be 1 - have all 'Sons tat; the) ':fiont; and many ffi'ends there; but- becanie I l',eiel,Gcid has called me to this service, and I want to see no other service till we have conquered and the nation is free and the world shall send up a universal shout of " Glory to God and Freedom to every living soul!" A Neat Speech. James Graham, Esq., a merchant of the city, now rose and said: • " I felt like responding to the speech of the gentleman from Boston, Mr. Tobey. He has given us evidence o the solidity of the solid men of Boston,' of whom I have often heard : but he has given us proof of the better solidity of the Christian religion. In response to his speech, and to that of Col. Gregory, who has aiven'evicfence that he is a true soldier and given you may, Mr. Chairman, double my subscription"—"which was $l,OOO, before," reniarked Mr. Stuart. • r- Closing Speeches. The Bev. J. Wheaten Smith, D. D., now made a short, happy speech, detailing some of his intensely interesting experience of a few days' labor in the army in behalf of the Commission: He spoke in terms of peculiar gratitude for the personalisenefits he had received from the mission. He felt he had been blessed as a minister of Christ. Such audiences he had - never before Preached to, such appreciation, such attention, such so lemnity ! In eight days he had preached eighteen times, and was not tired or hoarse. At home he should have had the bronchitis under such terrible hard usage; and his people would have been. compelled to send him on a voyage to Europe! Others followed in hopeful, thankful, pa triotic remarks. The hour was fast approach ing half-past eleven. 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