. Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers . must forgetits exclusiveness and lend itself to the largest, most compre-hensive charity? where eyes, quickened to clearest insight, pene-trate through every disguise in which mock-piety loves to wrapitself? where earnest souls sicken at all hypocrisies, yet yieldthemselves so unresistingly to the power of pure and loftytruth? And, when all else is said, I congratulate you, as a man and acitizen of this republic, that you are to have a hand in the mightystru
. Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers . must forgetits exclusiveness and lend itself to the largest, most compre-hensive charity? where eyes, quickened to clearest insight, pene-trate through every disguise in which mock-piety loves to wrapitself? where earnest souls sicken at all hypocrisies, yet yieldthemselves so unresistingly to the power of pure and loftytruth? And, when all else is said, I congratulate you, as a man and acitizen of this republic, that you are to have a hand in the mightystruggle in which human freedom, insulted and imperiled so long,is vindicating its majesty, and crushing its life-long foes to theearth. Great will be your joy, as the years pass by, that you havebeen an actor in the historic strife; and that you hallowed yourcalling by connecting it so intimately with the endangered causeof human progress. Accept, then, my brother, this Hand of Christian are greetings in store for you, I know, from camp and THE NEW LIBRARY i A STO R, L E N C- X AND FOUNDAilONS n L. Capt. J. Sewall Reed, ist Tenor Capt. Josiah S. Baldwin, ist Tenor Major William H. Forbes, 2d TenorChaplain Charles A. Humphreys, 1st Bass Capt. Goodwin A. Stone, 2d Bass CAMP QUARTETTE NOTES 303 hospital and field, which will put these poor words of mine toshame. But in friendly sympathy I offer them. In the name of the little brotherhood whose circle you nowenter—in the name of that larger Church, broader than all party-lines, which, in these trial-hours, is gathering in its converts bythousands—in the name, higher and holier still, of that humanityto whose sacred cause you consecrate your fresh strength to-day—I bid you welcome to your labors. May Gods blessing rest uponthem, and your best hopes be amply fulfilled! Note 2, page 4.—Photograph of Camp of Second Massachu-setts Cavalry at Vienna, Va. Field and Staff Officers , M
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