Such is the Christian labor that we are called e are called upon to perform. Such is the christian labor in behalf of which we ask your assistance in performing. Shall we lack the agencies and the means while our fellow-citizens possess them in abundance? Shall we lack those agencies and means because they are not possessed in abundance, but in small measure? We trust not. We believe not. We have faith sufficient to cause us to enunciate the belief that we shall be sustained, and that the good work will prosper in our hands.

Fellow-citizens, listen to our appeal. It is not for ourselves, nor for any personal advantage that we plead. It is for the disabled, the crippled, the bleeding sufferer of the battlefield and the hospital that we ask assistance. Shall he be relieved, or shall he be left to bear in the bitterness of neglect the severity of his affliction. Reader! these are questions for you to answer. to answer. Reader! these are questions which you will answer. You will answer them by your action, you will answer them by your contribution, or by withholding it! You will answer them by your prayers or by withholding them! Look at the field! It is red with blood from Harper's Ferry to Petersburg and Atlanta. Consider the appeal. It comes from the places of carnage in the valley of the Shenandoah and all along the front to the trenches near Richmond. It comes in the mangled form of the sufferer. It comes in the name of bleeding humanity. It comes in the wail of the widow. It comes in the cries of starving orphans. Look at the field!! Consider the appeal! Consider the scenes of suffering and blood, and starvation and death, in their contrast with your own comfortable and pleasant and elegant and happy home. Contrast the scenes of suffering and horror with the once comfortable and happy homes of the sufferers! Where are those homes now, and what is their condition? The home of the widow. The home of the orphan. The home of the bleeding victim of the battle-field. The home of desolation. The home of wretchedness. And all this for what? Was it for the safety of your country and your property? Was it for the safety of your home? It was the call of the Government that made the citizen a soldier and caused him to hasten to the defence of his country, his home and his rights-of your country, of

your home of your rights. He went to the place of peril on your account as well as his. He went to insure you prosperity and protection as well as to secure them for himself. He fell to prevent you from falling. Will you reach forth a hand to help the sufferer, or will you withhold it and let him suffer on? Christian men, Christian women, Christian children, answer this inquiry. Christian father, mother, teach your children to answer it.

We want, most of all, money, because money will buy everything. We want clothing, shirts, undershirts, drawers, socks, shoes, canned fruits, dried fruits, pickles, oranges, lemons, onions, condensed milk, condensed beef, corn starch, tapioca, coffee, tea, sugar, wine, brandy, whiskey, essence of ginger, all cooking essences, paper, envelopes, pens, needles, reading matter of every proper kind.

The office of the United States Christian Commission is at 89 and 91 Baltimore street. The Flag of the United States Christian Commission designates the place. WE HAVE USE TO-DAY FOR FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and during the year will want one hundred and fifty thousand more. We shall have use in months to come for ten times that amount. Send us money. Send us stores. Send as you have ability. Send as God has prospered you. Send as conscience demands of you. Send, and the sufferers, the widows' prayers are yours. Send, and God will bless you.

To Clergymen.

Our cause would be greatly assisted if our brethren of the clergy would remember the labors we are performing in behalf of the suffering, and make collections in their congregations in aid of our funds. There is no charity at the present time more pressing, and none more worthy of consideration. A word in season may serve our cause essentially by securing friends and funds in its support. A collection occasionally, if but a trifle, were secured by each, when the amounts are gathered may be of importance. We hope we may be assisted by our brethren in this way. Send the amounts to the office of the United States Christian Commission, 89 and 91 Baltimore street.

United States Christian Commission,

CENTRAL OFFICE, PHILADELPHIA, No. 11 BANK STREET.

Officers.

GEORGE H. STUART, Esq., Chairman.

JOSEPH PATTERSON, Treasurer.

Rev. W. E. BOARDMAN, Secretary.

Rev. LEMUEL MOSS, Sec'y of Home Organization.
Rev. BERNICE D. ARNES, Sec'y of Field Organization.
Members.

Charles Demond, Esq., Boston.
Rev. Rollin H. Neale, D. D., Boston.
Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. James Eells, D. D., Brooklyn.
Mitchell H. Miller, Esq., Washington.
John P. Crozier, Esq., Philadelphia.
Jay Cook, Esq.,

Rev. M. L. R. P. Thompson, D. D., Cin.
Brig. Gen. Fiske, St. Louis.
John R. Farevell, Esq., Chicago.
John D. Hill, M. D., Buffalo.
Sam'l B. Caldwell, New York.
Rt. Rev. Bishop Lee, Delaware.
A. E. Chamberlain, Esq., Ohio.

Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, Esq., Ohio.
Rev. J. Mulhauser, Wisconsin.
Hon. Hiram Price, Iowa.
G. B. Roberts, California.
Hon. Gov. Nye, Nevado.
Rev. R. Breckenridge, Kentucky.
W. S. Carter, Esq., Milwaukie.
Walter S. Griffith, Esq., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. Bishop M. Simpson, D. D .Phila'd.
R. G. Jones, Esq., Philadelphia.

Executive

George H. Stuart, Esq., Phila'd.
Rev. Bishop E. S. Janes, D. D., N. Y
Charles Demond, Esq., Boston.
John P. Crozier, Esq., Philadelphia.
Joseph Patterson, Esq., Philadelphia.
Rev. Bishop M. Simpson, D. D., Philad.
Jay Cook, Esq., Philadelphia.

G. S. Griffith, Baltimore.
Hon. Mr. Patton, Maine.

Rev. Col. James Pike, New Hampshire.
Hon. E. Fairbanks, Vermont.
Edward S. Toby, Boston.

Rev. S. Wayland, D. D., Rhode Island.
Hon. Gov. Buckingham, Conn.
Nathan Bishop, L. L. D., New York.
Morris K. Jessop, New York.

Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., N. Jersey.
William Frew, Esq., Pennsylvania.
Hon. Gov. Pierpont, Virginia.
Hon. W. S. Willey, West Virginia.
Hon. S. Colfax, Indiana.
Hon. John Owen, Michigan.

Hon. John Evans, Colorado.
Rev. E. Lihman, Minnesota.
Rev. F. Pennington, Kansas.
Rev. S. Cornelius, Óregon.

Prof. L. M. Stoaver, Gettysburg.
Wm. E. Dodge, Esq., New York.
Rev. H. Dyer, D. D., New York.
Stephen Colwell, Esq., Pennsylvania.

Committee.

G. S. Griffith, Esq., Baltimore.
Stephen Colwell, Esq., Penn.
William Dodge, Esq., New York.
Rev. Herman Dyer, D. D., New York.
Walter S. Griffith, Esq., Brooklyn.
H. G. Jones, Esq., Philadelphia.
Rev. W. E. Boardman, Ex. off., Philad.

Committee of Maryland as now Organized.
G. S. Griffith, Esq., Chairman Balti-| Rev. Isaac P. Cook, Baltimore.

more.

Rev. Geo, P. Hays, Treasurer, Balti

more.

Rev. J. N. M'Jilton, D. D., Secretary,
Baltimore.

Rev. T. Stork, D.D., Baltimore.
Chas. W. Ridgley, Baltimore.

Rev. R. C. Galbraith, Govanstown,
Baltimore county.

Gideon Bantz, Frederick city.
Rev. J. D. Curtis, Elkton, Cecil county.
Rev. J. Evans, Hagerstown, Washing-
ton county.

THE CHARACTER AND WORK OF

THE CHRISTIAN COMMISSION.

The Christian Commission is a voluntary association. It was organized in New York on the 16th November, 1861. The persons by whom it was organized were delegates from several societies existing in as many cities and other places known as the Young Men's Christian Associations. The delegates were sent to New York for the purpose of organizing a body to be known as the Christian Commission. The purpose of this body at the first and at the present, is the performance of such service to the disabled of the Army and Navy as Christian sympathy suggests. In bodies consisting of large numbers of men it is well known that their must be many sick, and in the sad work of the battle-fields it is as well known that there must be large numbers of the wounded. It is to minister to the temporal and spiritual wants of these sick and wounded men that the Christian Commission performs its voluntary offices.

The character of the Commission was fixed at the meeting of the delegates at the instance of George H. Stuart, Esq., by whose happy forethought and succeeding labors the body was brought into existence. The philanthropic features of the Commission have not been changed. The work as suggested by Mr. Stuart of performing the service of the good Samaritan to the sick of the army and the disabled of the battle-fields is still continued. The area of the work has been greatly extended and the number of the workmen have been greatly increased. Following, as the Commission has done, in the footsteps of the Army and in the wake of the vessels of the Navy, in the expansion of its labors the obligation has been forced upon it of increasing its laborers and means. Wonderful has been its success in meeting this emergency. An all-wise and over-ruling Providence has

raised up friends as they were needed and means as they were demanded. Although at the first it was difficult to accomplish the smaller amount of necessary service, it has not been much more so to perform the same over the greatly extended field that is now whitened for the harvest and demands the laborers and the material necessary for the performance of their work. It is is not pretended that the service contemplated has been fully performed in the relief of all the suffering and privation that have appeared in the view of the Commission's agents and delegates. Our means have never been adequate to this demand; but as far as the men and the means could be provided they have been appropriated, and although all the needed service could not be rendered, a very great proportion of the suffering necessarily occasioned by the war, has been relieved. Had there been more men and more money, the greater had been the service and the more nearly perfect had been its performance.

As a voluntary association, the Christian Commission has no official relation either to the Government or to the Army and Navy. There is no detriment to the service, however, on this account. The work of the Commission is approved and sanctioned by the Government, and directions have been given that its delegates should be respected and protection and every possible facility afforded them in the pursuit of their labors. The name of the President of the United States and the of names of a number of the gentlemen of the Cabinet and Generals and other officials of the Army and Navy, have been associated with the Commission, and thereby the connection of the Commission with the Army and Navy service has been rendered as nearly official as is desirable. No surgeon or Chaplain of the Army and Navy who understands the relationship of the Commission with the service ever thinks of impeding the progress of the work or of doing any thing in its connection that does not facilitate its purpose. But few difficulties have arisen on account of misunderstandings in this relation, and the few that have occurred have been readily adjusted, when the proper relationship of the parties were understood.

An association known as the Baltimore Christian Associa