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Title: American messenger
Year: 1843 (1840s)
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Subjects: American Tract Society Christianity
Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : American Tract Society
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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em, and I foundout for myself what it meant by going intoone of their barracks and sleeping with them.There is very little light, the men are crowdedof necessity; at that time there were over ahundred in a barrack sleeping in double tierson bunks made of slats with clothing hangingall about and the ventilation coming all fromthe sides and ends and none from the roof.These barracks are the best that can be providedunder the circumstances. They had small stovesbut not enough to heat them as we are accus-tomed to have our houses and shops heatedin America. I can understand why the boys say that wherethere is no Y they surely would be out ofluck. I knew very soon after I began workthat there was a reason for their coming to thehut in the evenings in such crowds. Therethey found an atmosphere free from armyrestrictions to a large degree, there they had afree and easy companionship, there they foundheat, light and the daily papers, and how theygrabbed them during the ti mes that drives were
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A Y. M. C. A. CANTEEN USED BY OUR BOYS IN FRANCE on! We had hardly any time to eat eveningmess because the boys were so eager to getthe papers. In the Y they found magazines, games,writing materials and tables, a canteen suppliedwith candies, cakes, tobacco in form for smok-ing and chewing, soaps, towels, handkerchiefs,shoe strings, etc. In the winter they wereoffered cheese sandwiches and hot chocolate orcocoa. The place was crowded every eveningand the men had to be driven out at closing time. Sunday always brought a change in the pro-gram, for then we had the service conducted bythe chaplain in the morning and a song serviceconducted by the secretary in the evening.Those were the times when the boys couldchoose what they wanted to have sung, and theykept us busy singing the old favorites and thenew gospel songs that were brought into popu-larity in the past few years. At those timeswe were able to get close to the mens hearts

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