1.Emotions at the Idea of Assuming the Position, and Object of these Pages,[7]
2.Our First Meeting for Worship,[8]
3.The Sabbath School,[10]
4.General Appearance of the Convicts,[11]
5.The Warden,[11]
6.Educational Means found in Operation,[12]
7.Influence Left by the Former Chaplain,[13]
8.Prison Order,[13]
9.Chaplain's Routine of Duty,[14]
10.General Description of the Prison and Prison Management,[15]
11.General Remarks upon the Prisoners,[22]
12.Prayer-meetings Commenced,[25]
13.Pike, the Hampton Murderer,[28]
14.Doctrinal Discourses,[34]
15.Effect of the Prayer-meeting on Prison Order,[34]
16.The New Chapel,[35]
17.Prison Repairs and Mistakes,[36]
18.Profanity Attacked,[37]
19.Efforts for a Son, from a Mother's Plea,[38]
20.Warden's Efforts for a Young Man,[40]
21.Experience with noble appearing Heads in Prison,[42]
22.The Warden Admits Presents to Prisoners from Friends Outside,[44]
23.Warden Decides to Resign,[45]
24.Prisoners' Anxiety at the Rumored Resignation,[47]
25.Governor and Council Memorialized by the Prison S. S. Teachers and Chaplain,[48]
26.Prison Funerals,[49]
27.Educational and Sabbath school summing up,[49]
28.Religious Success,[51]
29.Fourth of July at the Prison,[52]
30.The true Principle of Imprisoning and Prison Managing--on the Idea of Reform in the Convict,[53]
31.The Commutation System,[59]
32.Chaplain's Proposed Attempt at Tobacco Reform,[60]

PART II.
UNDER THE PUNITIVE AND MONEY-MAKING SYSTEM.

1.Warden Chosen, and new Arrangements for the Chaplain,[61]
2.Chaplain almost Resolved to Resign, but Decides to Continue and Arranges his Work,[64]
3.Cells Cleared of Trinket-making and Tracts,[65]
4.Necessity for the Chaplain's Undertaking what He Did,[65]
5.New Phase at the Prison, and the Chaplain's Efforts,[66]
6.Sabbath School Commences,[69]
7.The Warden's Views Considered,[69]
8.Chaplain's Restrictions,[73]
9.Prisoner's Aid Association,[76]
10.Complaint of Prison Hunger,[76]
11.Chaplain's Object in hearing from Released Prisoners and Others,[77]
12.B. and E.'s request, and the Connected Abuse,[78]
13.Alleged Prison Conspiracy,[80]
14.National Prison Reform Congress,[81]
15.Money-making and Punishing, the Paramount Objects in our Prison Management,[83]
16.Waste Paper in the Cells,[83]
17.Defective Beds and Bedding,[84]
18.Cracked Wheat Dinner,[86]
19.Bad Fish, &c.,[87]
20.Prison Suffering from Cold During the Winter of '70 and '71,[88]
21.Lighting the Hall,[93]
22.The Aid of the Association to Released Prisoners, and Warden's Course,[94]
23.Lecturing for the Prison Aid Association,[99]
24.Prison Correspondence under the New Rule,[100]
24 1-2.Chaplain under a System of Espionage,[102]
25.The Chaplain's Pacific Efforts severely Taxed,[104]
26.Death of Gideon Sylver,[109]
27.The Sylver Case Excitement and Hearing before the Governor and Council,[115]
28.Preparing for the Adjourned Session,[118]
29.The Adjourned Hearing,[120]
30.Motives for Desiring the Chaplain's Removal,[122]
31.Chaplain's Change of Course, and the Question as to who should Conduct the Prison Correspondence,[124]
32.Change, for a Time, in the Warden's Management,[127]
33.The Fate of Henry Stewart and others,[129]
34.Warden's Want of Courtesy to Prisoners' Visitors,[132]
35.Effects of the new Order upon the Prisoners,[133]
36.Comparative Prison Order for the two years,[139]
37.Good Traits in the Warden for Prison Service,[143]
38.Chaplain's Inability to Prevent Knowing more or less of the Prisoners' Troubles and the Prison Management,[143]
39.Secular School Success,[144]
40.Sabbath School Success,[147]
41.Religious Success,[149]
42.Lack of Truthfulness at the Prison,[149]
43.Reported Quarrel between the Warden and Chaplain,[151]
44.Prison Report for '71,[153]
45.Efforts of the Prison Aid Association for Legislation in Favor of the Prison,[163]
46.Experience with the new Government,[169]
47.Chaplain Determines to Have an Investigation into the Charges against Him,[170]
48.Anniversary of P. A. Association for '71, and remarks on our Jails,[171]
49.Fourth of July at the Prison in '71,[173]
50.Chaplain's Removal from Office,[174]
51.Prison Fare under the new Government,[176]
52.The Warden Question,[177]
53.Experience at the Prison subsequent to Dismissal,[178]
54.Prison Report for '72,[181]
55.International Penitentiary Congress, London, July 3-13, '72,[188]
Conclusion,[197]

THE PRISON CHAPLAINCY.

PART I.

UNDER THE REFORMATORY SYSTEM.

1. Emotions at the idea of assuming the position, and object of these pages. The proposal of friends that I become chaplain of our State Prison at first struck me with much disfavor, from the idea that the position, instead of affording the encouragement and satisfaction attendant upon my former labors in schools and churches, must be up-hill work, and repulsive to the finer feelings of the heart. Still, having been no little accustomed to laying aside personal tastes and conveniences for the good of others, I yielded, and commenced the work on the first Sabbath in July, 1869.