Standing before the men, the O.
C. spoke briefly:
"I wish to thank in your name, men, our chaplain, and his assistant, Mr.
Coleman, for the very delightful evening they have given us. I know how
you feel by the way I feel myself. I need say no more, and now, seeing
that we have missed our parade service for the last two Sundays, and as
I should not like the chaplain to become rusty in his duty, I'm going
to ask him to bring our very pleasant evening to a close with a little
service such as he himself would suggest."
Hardly were the words out of his mouth, when Barry took up his violin
and said:
"Boys, did you have a good time to-night?"
"Yes, sir; you bet we had, sir."
"Well, then, if you had, sing this," and recited for them the first
verses of the old hymn,
"Abide with me, fast falls the even tide."
When they had sung the first verse, he said again:
"Now sing these words," and once more he recited the stirring verse:
"I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless.
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