'Good Master Joshua Pettigrue will be our field-chaplain.

Shall not his voice and his presence be to us as manna in the wilderness, and as springs of water in dry places?
The under-officers I see that you have yourselves chosen, and your captains shall have power to add to the number from those who smite boldly and spare not.

Now one thing I have to say to you, and I speak it that all may hear, and that none may hereafter complain that the rules he serves under were not made clear to him.

For I tell you now that when the evening bugle calls, and the helm and pike are laid aside, I am as you and you as I, fellow-workers in the same field, and drinkers from the same wells of life.

Lo, I will pray with you, or preach with you, or hearken with you, or expound to you, or do aught that may become a brother pilgrim upon the weary road.