. Services of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteers . ons and freed from both the restraint and theaid. It is for this reason that many, who found it easy to walk inthe straight and narrow way at home, wandered during their armylife into forbidden paths. Exposure, toil and privations willcorrode the soul of almost any one, and if the busy tempter bethen present, and the guidance and light of home associationsgone, it recjuires the highest moral firmness to walk sinless throughthe gardens of attractive !)ut forbidden fruits. It is easv in peaceand safety to persue the labors of the week and on Sabba
. Services of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteers . ons and freed from both the restraint and theaid. It is for this reason that many, who found it easy to walk inthe straight and narrow way at home, wandered during their armylife into forbidden paths. Exposure, toil and privations willcorrode the soul of almost any one, and if the busy tempter bethen present, and the guidance and light of home associationsgone, it recjuires the highest moral firmness to walk sinless throughthe gardens of attractive !)ut forbidden fruits. It is easv in peaceand safety to persue the labors of the week and on Sabbath,repairing to cushioned , listen to the swelling notes ofthe organ and the melody of voices raised in songs of praise tothe Most High. It is (piite another thing to keep fresh in theheart the spirit of gentleness and lo\ e, of Cliristian meekness anddevotion, when you live every moment in the face of deadly peril,enduring cold, hunger and fatigue, where social influences and -i!- NEW YORK PuSUC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN Capt. Samuel Coulter, Co. E, 96th O. V. I. SERVICES OF THE NINETY-SIXTH O. V I. 149 Sabbaths are unknown; where, when church-bells are elsewherechiming, duty may, as it often does, call you to the savage field ofcarnage. The fact is that active military life afforded so severe atest for the nobler elements of manhood that many were foundwanting. All campaigners were astonished by the frequency ofdistorted lives among those in whom they least expected it, andespecially that so large a proportion of the Chaplains should provethemselves not only entirely unfitted for the duties, not onlyutterly useless in their calling, but frequently positively injuriousby their example. The delicate duties required a knowledgeof men which they had not, and for the privations and perils theywere in no wise prepared. Some did proud honor to themselvesand their calling, while many who thoyght they were strong, thereproved themselves weak—found the burden
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