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[small printed note on top]

Meeting of Chaplains.

A public meeting of chaplains and others in-
terested in the moral and religious condition of
the army, was held in the Rev. Dr. Butler's church
on Saturday morning, 19th inst.

Dr. Butler called the meeting to order, and Rt.
Rev. Charles P. McIlvaine being present, was in-
vited to take the chair.

The object of the meeting was stated to be the
more thorough combination of the chaplains, and
of the modes of supplying religious reading and
other Christian aid to the army and navy, and
proposing that a Christian commission should be
instituted, with its headquarters at Washington, D.C.,
through whom those supplying such matter can
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