Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-14
BISHOP MURRAY
TALKS TO SOLDIERS
Visits Camp McCIellan--Tells Men
"Be Manly For Gods Sake
And Cody For Mans Sake"
PLAIN TALK TO TROOPS
Maryland Prelate Spends Day With
First Regiment, Eats Three Meals
Of Army Chow and Sleeps
On Army Cot.

First Regiment, Eats Three Meals
Of Army Chow and Sleeps
On Army Cot.
Writing TO the Baltimore Sun from
Camp Mcclellan, Admission. Ala,
where Company NJ and the Machine
Gun Company. Annapolis units of the
new National Army went. on Monday
last. "A. S. T." a staff correspondent
Of the Baltimore Sun, has the follow
iLg:
Bishop John Gardner Murray sol
dsered' today with 1000 other Mary
landers here. He reached camp IN
time to talk to the First Regiment be-
fore they had ceased being neweom-
ers. because railroad officials held up
three trains that would have delay
ed him when they learned his mis-
sion. He spent tonight on an army
cot in an army tent on Gather Hill
He stood retreat with the soldiers at
6 p. NJ. he will awake at reyeille at
$50 A. M. tomorrow and he Will have
eaten three meals of army chow.
For all practical purposes he com
handed the Maryland brigade for 10
of the most impressive minutes the
1000 and more home boys ever spent
in their lives. He spoke to them
gathered on Gather Hill, and his last
order TO them was BE manly for
Gods sake and Cody for mans sake
General Gather was called away
TO a conference with General Morton
as Bishop Murray began TO speak, and
the words of no general talking TO
his men before battle ever struck
deeper than the words of the Bishop,
Judging from the faces of the men as
they turned and marched back to their
camp pitching and their stump grub
Ting
Bishop Says at Got Me-"
"The scene affected the Bishop him
self deeply Major Ernest A. Rob
bins, Jr., turned TO him as the compa-
MES wound down the hill and broke
the silence with: Bishop, these men
represent. every county in Maryland.
Bishop Murray replied Yes and turn
ed away his head He said afterward,
talking to General Gather before the
Generals tent while waiting for re-
treat and supper. 1t got me-.
at was not a sermon that Bishop
Murray gave the men, just plain
talk about themselves and their flu
ture. He stood at the edge of Cen
eral Gathers tent floor and the 1000
soldiers, strating with those who sat
in a circle almost at his feet, were
massed widening circles far down
the slope so that some stood on
stumps to see him.
"'Men' he said, i have made
special trip down here to tell the
First Regiment that it is still at home.
No matter where you go, be assured
that you have never left the home
State, for the spirits of the people at
home are with you
sWeuld Like To BE With Them"
IF years had not restrained me |
would be with you, praying and fight
ing. You men must answer for three
things. the honor of your State and
country and the honor of your God.
And you will need three things. a
mans body, you will get that in spite
of yourselves. mind to control it,
you must develop that yourselves, and
spirit of sacrifice.
81 shall be satisfied if you get the
seriousness of this thing as / see it,
standing here and looking at you. II
YOU conduct yourselves as though your
success in this camp and your success
in battle depend entirely upon your
selves individually, you will find
studying easy and fighting easier.
"'In month when the two other
Maryland regiments are here. | shall
come back and spend some time with
you again That is all. God bless
every one of you
Makes Tour OF Camp.
After dinner Bishop Murray made
a tour of the hole camp in General
Gathers automobile, accompanied by
Lieut.. John c. Lane, the Generals
Aide. He slept tonight in Lieutenant
Lanes tent in the camp hospital. He
found three Maryland men suffering
from minor illness and they happened
to be men whom he had confirmed, one
in Annapolis and the others in Balti-
more. He talked to them and they
wept into their pillows.
with Bishop Murray at dinner in
General Gathers mess shed was the
Rev. Carleton Barnwell. rector of
Grace Church. Admission. who came
here from a parish in Westmin-
ster, Md. To see him about scheme
for looking after Maryland soldiers
here was one of the Bishops reasons
for coming South. Mr.. Barnwell has
written to Episcopal Bishops and
clergymen in every State from which
troops have come to this camp ask
ing for the names of all soldiers from
their parishes
Fourth To Leave Sunday.
General Gather heard yesterday
from Col Harry c. Jones, of the
Fourth Regiment, that he and his men
would leave Laurel Sunday for the
South.
Neither General Gather nor Divi-
sion Headquarters have heard from
the Fifth.
Major W. w Crosby. of Maryland,
has been assigned to duty with the