A Work to be Done for the Army.
A BROTHER who was drafted, and is now in the service, writes from Virginia, June 11, 1864. I received a paper from home to-day. I received one before this and could hardly get time to read it, so many wanted it. It was lent and read by as many as a hundred, I think. And as soon as I got the Review to day, What a rush there was for it, with expressions like these: "Can I take the paper?" "Can I take it when he gets through with it?" "Why don't the Christian Commission let us have some of these papers?" &c, &c. Brethren, cannot a fund be raised to furnish the soldiers with some of our papers and tracts? Papers are very scarce here, and all want to read. Seeing them resort to cards and other things, I asked one of them the cause. He said that he could not get anything to read, and it was not nature to lie idle. I asked him if he had a Bible, the answer was, No. I had two, so I gave him one. He reads it and my paper. I have not seen a card in his hand since, and he says that when he draws his pay, he will send for the paper.