Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-03-31
AN APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE U. S. CHRISTIAN
COMMISSION.
70 the People Of DeLaa0are County:


The undersigned would call the attention
of the Ladies Aid Societies and Churches
of our County to the appeal of Geo. IL.
Stuart, in behalf of the T. s. Christian
Commission, and would urge an immedi-
ate response to the appeal. The following
is part of that appeal:
will you not now come up to the help
of the Lord and give literally? We hope
this is the last appeal to the generosity of
the North. The end seems near, though
terrible battles lie in the way. Must the
men who fight these final battles, be with
out the sympathy and ministration of the
Delegates of the Christian Commission.
''1'o the Ladies' Aid Societies and Chris
tan COMMISSIONS, we confidently appeal,
that they Immediately set about soliciting
individual subscriptions from their friends,
and without waiting to make up large
sums forward them as fast as received.
by enteringon this at once you may do
glorious work which shall secure you
not only the blessings of the soldiers ready
to perish, but the well done of him who
died to save man.
''The treasury Of the Christian Commits
sion tO-dGyG Is empty Nearly 300 Dele
gates are now in the field. giving their
to cheering the well, and to preaching the
gospel to all.
In one hundred and forty chapel tents,
our soldiers now assemble daily to read
the publications furnished by the Commits
sion, or to write letters to loved ones at
home; and each night in the week, and
three times on the Sabbath, most of them
are crowded with earnest worshippers,
many of whom rise to ask prayer, and pro-
fess their design to lead Christian lives
Sixty additional tents are urgently de-
manded.
THE Spring campaign has already open
ed. The Delegates OF the Commission
are even now nursing the wounded from
DabneY,s Mil and Hatcher,s- Run and
at any moment we must be prepared for
general engagement, and an outlay of
hundred thousand dollars for battlefield
stores.
1.-The delegates of the Commission are
now daily meeting the hundreds of our
poor, sick and starved, returned prisoners,
at Aiken's Landing, with kind words hot
coffee, and soft bread, and helping to carry
them on board the steamboats,, and accom-
panying and nursing them on the way
home.
Shall this work be stopped? Shall
these delegates be recalled, or shall they
still visit the battlefield and the hospital,
and with kind words and gentle hands
distribute the gifts of generous people
to the noble men bleeding and dying for
their native land? Shall the men who
fight with Sherman and Grant be neglect
ed?
The Commission has no funds in bank
no capital invested It has ever relied, it
still relies upon the spontaneous gifts of
those who love God and the country. To
such we now appeal for immediate help"
Now fellow citizens shall this appeal be
made in vain? The undersigned Pastors
of the various Churches in the town of
Delaware, have agreed to call upon their
respective people at once for help And
we hope that the various societies through
out the County will do at once what they
can.
Take your own way to raise funds, and
if you desire any Of the undersigned to
address any meeting or meetings You may
call, they are at your service, as far as is
at all practicable.
Be in earnest, and let us do all we can {; |
and then we shall have but endured 1.-THE !
of the self-denial, that our brave, noble |
and suffering men are called to endure for |
the good Of our country. Give literally, |
give cheerfully; remembering that it is
humanity that appeals to you for |
aid. Suffering that IS necessary to the pre-
SeTUing Of oar liberties and theirs
The funds collected may be handed to |
Rev. o. H. Newton, or forwarded to A. E. |
Chamberlain of Cincinnati.
Rev. 0. III. NEWTON,
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