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Title: Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Humphreys, Charles Alfred, 1838-
Subjects: United States. Army Massachuesetts Cavalry Regiment, 2nd (1862-1865) United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
Publisher: Boston, Press of Geo. H. Ellis Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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theTemperance Reform, in whose organized and active ranks heartand conscience led him to an early enlistment, and his fidelityto which no after enlistment served to lessen. His convictionsof its importance, his sense of responsibility, and ever-wakefulconscientiousness, constrained him to work for it, whenever hesaw, or thought he saw, a rightfully available opportunity, or apossibly impressible subject. He was not content, as too manyare, with what the mere example of abstinence may effect, inthis cause. The example, indeed, is much. Argument andappeal go but for little where it is wanting. But better both,—the persuasion of life and lip, of deed and word; life and deedyielding authority and emphasis to lip and word. It is not forme to speak of the comparative worth of organized action, inthis Reform, and that which is private and personal; but I ammoved to say that where the object is the rescue of the individual,private and personal and unofficial action, in a spirit of friendli-
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