REGULATIONS FOR THE NAVY OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES, 1862.
CHAPTER
21.
CHAPLAIN
ARTICLE 1.
Respect to the chaplain.
All officers are required to treat the chaplain with the respect due to his holy office, and to afford him every proper facility for the discharge of his sacred duties.
ARTICLE 2.
He will be attentive to the performance of his
duties.
He is to be attentive to perform with due solemnity the duties of the Lord’s Day, that the ship’s company may be impressed with devotion, and he will carefully adapt his discourses to the capacity of the majority of his hearers, that his instructions may be intelligible and beneficial to them.
ARTICLE 3.
To perform divine service when required.
He will perform divine and funeral service when required to do so by his commanding officer.
ARTICLE 4.
He will be attentive to the requests of persons requiring his attendance.
He shall be very attentive to the requests of all sick persons who may desire his attendance, and shall, although not requested, visit all such as may be dangerously ill, and offer such consolations as they may require.
ARTICLE 5.
Religious instruction of boys,
&c.
He is to instruct in the principles of the Christian religion the boys and such other persons as the captain may put under his care.
ARTICLE 6.
Instruction of the boys in the
elementary branches of education.
He will apply to the captain to direct some intelligent and well-disposed person of the crew to instruct, under his directions, the boys of the ship in reading, writing, and the first rules of arithmetic, and will examine the boys often, and will report to the captain those whom he may find diligent and well disposed, that they may be rewarded.
ARTICLE 7.
Chaplain’s reports.
He will make the commander of the ship a report on the first of January, April, July and October, of the duties performed by him in the previous three months, and a condensed report at the end of the cruise.
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