The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-26

hind the writer was led to exercise his energies more in things present and those to come, rather than in the past. But there is an affection for those with whom we have stood iu line that cannot be stifed, and an attachment for those with whom we have touched elbows, and a brotherIy feeling which we can not explain.
 And so, after these long years, when so many who in 1862 stepped out to the tune, We're coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more have left the field of the living, and so few are left with snow-White heads and pended forms to answer 'Yah!' I greet you, survivors of those days when the old i colonel asked. Anybody hurt in Com pany E?' No, sir!' Bully for Com pany E!' And when Adjutant Brown pleaded for silence, for my sake, some one has said, those were days that made mems blood run cold But I tell you, comrades, such terrible events make my blood run cold now. Both the colonel and adjutant have joined the si- lent army"
 The letter then went on to give some very interesting "reminiscences of his army life, such as capturing guerillas. ' One instance was that of some of the men of their company capturing two 1 guerillas that were making love to some young ladies to whom men of Company E were paying attention. There were several instances of individual and col lective bravery on the part of their men hot oIi from thnca ent He then related an interesting in cident in which, while he was travelling in Texas on business in the year 1867, he came across a bookkeeper of Fetch CT, Clark & Co.,, who was one of General Morgan's raiders. The "Co." of the firm was a Colonel Cherry, who related some very interesting incidents, not knowing that Lieutenant Beach was in the Union army.
 The speaker then told an interesting story of the men of Company E rescu- 1 ing the daughter of negro woman and allowing her to go with her mother at | Windsor, N. c. The speaker told how , he captured single-barrelled gun and locked the door, leaving the lady and owner of the girl in the parlor He bent the gun across stump and then he left the emancipation proclamation with her. The story was graphically told and it was applauded by the vet erans present. He closed the letter with the following excellent senti- ments:
 Tt is the present we have to deal with, and this is born out of the past and is itself the womb of the future The past is gone forever, for veal or for woe, and we are all engaged in building up the environments into which the next generation will be born, and by which the next generation will be shaped. And the end of all endeavor is the attainment of the righteous char acter of the Son of God in the sons of men.
 And this is an individual work, not 1 in the concrete, but in the individual soul, leading the individual into all the liberty of the Son of God and shaping him into the divine likeness and image according to the Fathers thought.
 For this purpose and to this end were all things created, and to such an one are all things subjective. Are we living to carry out this great purpose in our own lives and the lives of those about us? Do we recognize the i1nmu- l table law of Almighty God, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus and bow our heads reverently before Him and earnestly seek to know and conse- crate ourselves to do His will and find home in a city not made with hands eternal in the heavens? Passing on An angel is drawing the night cloud away,
 While comrades are passing in silent array,
 of steel,
 They're armed cap-a-pie from helmet to heel
 1 No mandate is heard from the head of
 that band,
 ! No dominant voice grown hoarse in command
 Through the Beautiful Gate they come!
 No bugle unwinds note of retreat, No shattering drum marks time for
 their feet,
 No echo awakens the slumbering street,
 From inimical lips. or an enemy's feet,
 In the City of Truth their home.
 with love for you all. I am
 ''Your Comrade.
 Chicago, August IS, 1902''
 Chaplain Doolittle recalled the chang ed appearance of New Haven since he graduated from Yale in 1863, and in par ticular the changed appearance of the college campus, as only two or three of the old Yale buildings remain that were on the campus when he was at Yale. The Yale Art school was building at that time. He also recalled how he used to come up in his boat to above the spot where the big Union station now stands MT Doolttle took a spe- cial interest in the Ladies' Seamen's society work when at Yale, and was surprised to hear that that society had now a fine building of it's own. MT. Doolittle became chaplain of the Eff teenth a few months after graduating at Yale.
 Colonel Cpham was much interested to hear concerning the condition of FL bridge L. Howe, and had hoped to hear that the crisis was passed favorably. He spoke of him as fine young busi- ness man, a credit to the city and state. Colonel Upham, as is well known, is