Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-11-22

Win INc oMCcTS Ou lIe udTcu, Jill
different in his conversation as his sto-
ries sink to lower depth, follower OF
Chsucer' priest? Will he be Saint
Simeon, to carry last behind his back
and thorn in his right hand? Or will
he plant with quiet acts, in the soil OF
his own manliness that approval of his
conscience which shall be his own staff
to lean upon? Then. like Goldsmith S
parson, his peace shall be like river
and whoever shall cross it, coming into
his heart, shall find land full of joy;
rich in PROMISE WREN he shatt sge" 1fre
land full of good seed, shaking like
Lebanon on the distant hills of eternity.
The chaplain holds court in his tent
Thither throng the regiment One en-
otter differs from the Postmaster at
Washington. about the frequency OF
mails, and the Chaplain mus. judge
Another enters an inquiry about miss
ing papers, the way OF adjusting some
difficulty. the prospects Tor improving
some opportunity, the chance of finding
some lost article. the little trouble with
| 10 INV put
down in the Revised Army Regulations
he is expected to know. lie does not
sit IN his confessional, but when the fly
of the tent is thrown back az sign OF
his ;,resen, e. many homesick boy, or
troubled father, or tired son, or afflicted
brother, pours his tale Of trouble into
his ear. One has lost a fortune and
! Il 1It,rl- p,,thar
school, ard lett all to support his
mother, yet Was so fond of stuiy that
he even brought his school books
Another has cherished little theory
OF Lille, which he thinks famous. To
all these the Chaplain gladly listens
ii! there are hundred avenues into "a
man heart when kind word steals in
when once some grief, clad in sombre
words, has clept out, like a guilty thing.
aud is lost, when summoned by Il reso-
lutte word. And to whom shall heavy
heart go, if not to the Chaplain? And
how shall one be more happy than i'll
| lifting the burden. in taking the trem
bling hand III sitting an inn keeper
along Lie way, receiving the wounded,
as the good Sam ,rltan brings them to-
yether, with the corIials Of courage,
helping them on their way up to Jeru
saIem lie may cherish the promise ot
tie re, nmpensc at the second coming
rec"u>e OF humble souls which greater
men passed. aud Wiser men could nut
give The tine 10 assist.
The Chap ain holds circuit court
III every tent. lie is judge, and jury,
very despot IN little thlaSs! His effort
is To change a masked reserve into il
nave Fare y u>el since they became ,ol
Llers. L. does them good. RatIuns
orders, prospects,, plans and the camp
news are all passed Judgment upon,
nd approved Or condemned. Does ii
require much philosophy to see how
ine tru,h may ue pointed with earnest
pieaSantry, how u curious story aud the
s.mp.e narrative uf ii good thing may
carry truth, DIS iomely bas kets do the
,etu ai broad acres! What Is there vi
genius. oil heart ex experIence, of skill,
which dues not now find its power triei
[, the utmost, its ..uule ambition salts
teI. 10 depend The conversation, to
| cali in tie wandering tastes, to unite the
various uplu.oas, to gather AMI move
| minds. is ii power compared with which
the reEu,alIuns vi the law and the
strengin of b,yuuets are as theses Of the
Old .,stiDnotne.s ani evers of Atca
aieles were 10 the universal, living, law
OF lrasilation, which drew all toward
;he others, and grouped the stars about
renlers, YET was quiet, and unseen, ana
even unknown.
Tn 5, then, is the glory and the diff
Guilty of d chlpalns position. His
power has no symbol, anu his authority
has no commission He cannot claim
he assistam-e Ot meu who measure
li,ncy. lie deals with spiritual weap
ons, which Will never ue seen until
some great emergency. 1t may be true
that little testimonials OF love will come
to ham. If the soidiers have good news
they will share it; if there comes /. del
| lcacy from home, it is offered to him
Ii there 10 unusual good fortune in the
hC " III iCSClhC nam iOdNCS vi
bread and cake. until he begins to think
that, alter all, the pleasing story he
used to wonder at. in The retreat of
the ten thousand is true-where Ken
! Ophon says the affections OF Cyrus led
! hIln to send hall eaten loves Of bread
and fowl to his officers assuring them
that lie emj Dyed them SO much he would
have his trends do the same. These
things will be only the fragments OF
kinunes. Even s"il.e great battle, some
uold exploit may not show aH. Such
things are as tue bark and weeds of Co
/ lumDuS, which made hun dream Of an
undiscovered continent, but the great
trees and the fields which lay unknown
and unseen beyond, were vastly greater.
! But the d,iii .ulty will be still more
evident, faith is absurd, and the id as
vi the Chaplain no better than Arcadia
! They Will Rot rcreIeure IN camp the
! Gou they despise at home. They Will
be una"le /" appreciate amy unscltiish
action. hetau>e they love themselves so
surremeIy. They cannot see any uul-
ity IN any thlny which Is not boun led
10y military arithmetic. or weighed by
the pIymister scales. Such men
never discover continents, never appre.
elite those who would. never reach the
land they despi>e! Yet amid half
concealed contempt, and perhaps bit
ter rebuke, the Chaplain still labors to
support their very influence. The prin-
clp,es of order, diligence, discipline and
respect, are the four cardinal points
vi nh lie insists upon, giving them Il
higher sanction and nobler meaning
than could be done by court martlaIs or
general orders. Let them forget the
wide difference between irreligiuus and