41. Religious Success, 149

42. Lack of Truthfulness at the Prison, 149

43. Reported Quarrel between the Warden and Chaplain, 151

44. Prison Report for '71, 153

45. Efforts of the Prison Aid Association for Legislation in Favor of
the Prison, 163

46. Experience with the new Government, 169

47. Chaplain Determines to Have an Investigation into the Charges
against Him, 170

48. Anniversary of P. A. Association for '71, and remarks on our Jails,
171

49. Fourth of July at the Prison in '71, 173

50. Chaplain's Removal from Office, 174

51. Prison Fare under the new Government, 176

52. The Warden Question, 177

53. Experience at the Prison subsequent to Dismissal, 178

54. Prison Report for '72, 181

55. International Penitentiary Congress, London, July 3-13, '72, 188

Conclusion, 197

THE PRISON CHAPLAINCY.

PART I.

UNDER THE REFORMATORY SYSTEM.

1. _Emotions at the idea of assuming the position, and object of these
pages._ The proposal of friends that I become chaplain of our State
Prison at first struck me with much disfavor, from the idea that the
position, instead of affording the encouragement and satisfaction
attendant upon my former labors in schools and churches, must be up-hill
work, and repulsive to the finer feelings of the heart. Still, having
been no little accustomed to laying aside personal tastes and
conveniences for the good of others, I yielded, and commenced the work
on the first Sabbath in July, 1869.

The experience gained in this connection, with the hints and suggestions
on collateral subjects, is set forth in the following pages, not for the
purpose of personal notoriety, but for the sake of correcting important
misconceptions by giving the true facts, and making a humble effort
towards awaking in the public mind a deeper interest on a subject in
which every citizen should feel a concern, and on which he should
become duly informed, and thus be prepared to act intelligently. For
this preparation he needs light, which light the real working of things,
properly set forth, would surely give. Experience is ever regarded as
the best school-master, the proper touchstone to all our theories.

Never was the community more widely and deeply stirred than now on the
questions, "What course will prove the most corrective of crime with the
least public burden? What is the true method of managing penal
institutions?"

These are questions of no trifling moment, q