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February 17th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 5
n nine volumes of Bunyan had been taken out. A. E. D. Rev. W. L. Fitcher, Petersburg: There is still much religious interest here among the soldiers. I handed, this morning, to an aged soldier, the tract, The sick and the Physician. That means the Saviour, said he; Oh, that he were my Saviour! Many of my company have become Christians, said another, and I too wish to learn what I must do to be saved. He requested me to visit him, and aid him in securing life everlasting. February 17, 1863. After getting my tracts, hymn-books, etc., I supplied the Sixty-third, Fifty-first and Fifty-eighth Regiments, and also Derrick's and Clarke's Battalions and Brian's Battery. The brave men received the tracts eagerly and thankfully, and were always pleased with an appointment for preaching or prayer. We held meetings in Monroe, and at the narrows of New river, and at Thorn Spring, near Dublin, where four artillery companies are now in camp. Never have I met with more patient an
August 19th (search for this): chapter 5
h your society for the Scriptures we need—say to the value of £ 1,000— until such time as sterling exchange is reduced to about its usual cost—we paying interest on our purchase until the debt is liquidated. To this letter the following noble response was sent, granting the society three times the amount they asked, free of interest: London, 10 Earl Street, Blackfriars, October 10, 1862. the Rev. Dr. Myers: Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of August, which did not, however, reach us until the 3d of this month. The request which it contains was immediately submitted to our committee for their consideration and decision, and I have much pleasure in informing you that it was unanimously agreed that your request should be complied with, and that the Scriptures should be sent as directed, to Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co. The only portion of your letter to which the committee demurred was that in which you proposed that interest should
September, 1840 AD (search for this): chapter 5
Westmoreland county, who was badly wounded, but survived the war, and only last year the book, around which so many hallowed associations and precious memories cluster, was returned to Dr. Sydnor. Garland Sydnor was a cousin of Captain Hugh A. White, whose death has been described in the previous chapter, and there are some interesting coincidences in their lives, and the circumstances attending their death, which seem worthy of record: 1. They were near the same age—Hugh born in September, 1840, and Garland in March, 1843. 2. They were sons of ministers of the Gospel. 3. Like Timothy, they knew the Scriptures from childhood, each having been taught by a pious mother and a pious grandmother. 4. Each made a public profession of religion when about fifteen years of age. 5. Each decided shortly after his conversion to devote himself to the ministry, and had entered upon a course of study preparatory to that great work—Hugh at Union Theological Seminary, and Garland at
1861 AD (search for this): chapter 5
h our poor facilities. The first Confederate Bible printed, so far as I can ascertain, was from the presses of the South-western Publishing House, at Nashville, 1861. A copy of this edition was sent to President Davis, who replied: The Bible is a beautiful specimen of Southern workmanship, and if I live to be inaugurated the fthe Virginia Baptist Sunday-school and Publication Board, has kindly furnished me the following additional facts and figures. The Bible Board, in its report for 1861, said: We earnestly suggest to the association the importance of making prompt and adequate provision for supplying our soldiery with the Bible. While in aid of whe inclemency of the weather, to consider the spiritual wants of our army. We are passing through the most momentous era in the history of this country. The year 1861 was filled with victories and covered Southern arms with imperishable glory; but from the beginning of this year we have met with nothing but disaster. Every mess
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 5
ry evangelists in the army, and that the board defray their expenses. Resolved: That this board be instructed, in connection with other boards which may deem such a measure important for their interests, to inquire into the expediency of deputing some suitable brother to visit Europe, for the purpose of procuring Bibles, books, tracts and any other appliances that may aid the general usefulness of such boards; and, if deemed expedient, be authorized to make arrangements therefor. During 1862 and 1863 alone this Sunday-school and Publication Board collected for army colportage $84,000. It published and distributed in the army 30,187,000 pages of tracts, 31,000 Bibles and Testaments, 14,000 Camp Hymns, and thousands upon thousands of religious books sent by the people from their homes, and religious papers without number. During 1864 sixty colporters were kept at work in the army. These were kept supplied with tracts, Bibles and Testaments, but for this year the exact records h
1863 AD (search for this): chapter 5
which have been distributed, and thus have been led to turn unto the Lord. In his report for 1863, in the midst of the war, he says: Modern history presents no example of armies so nearly cwith it the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. At the meeting of the same body in 1863, this board was instructed to correspond with pastors suited to the work and endeavor to engage boards; and, if deemed expedient, be authorized to make arrangements therefor. During 1862 and 1863 alone this Sunday-school and Publication Board collected for army colportage $84,000. It publisheefforts. The annual report of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Soldiers' Tract Association for 1863 shows a receipt during the year of $95,456.71, and a disbursement of $64,470.60. The association D. D. The board has also succeeded at last in getting through the press The Soldiers' Almanac for 1863, prepared by Rev. George B. Taylor. In its selections, this bears the marks of the editor's usu
1864 AD (search for this): chapter 5
ld gratefully remember, even if they had not continued, after the war, to make grants, amounting to considerably over $100,000, to circulate God's word among the needy of our Southern land. I find this item in a file of the Religious Herald for 1864: On an application by Rev. Levi Thorne, of North Carolina, approved by Governor Vance, 100,000 Bibles and Testaments, principally for North Carolina troops in the Confederate service, were granted by the American Bible Society, New York, at its published and distributed in the army 30,187,000 pages of tracts, 31,000 Bibles and Testaments, 14,000 Camp Hymns, and thousands upon thousands of religious books sent by the people from their homes, and religious papers without number. During 1864 sixty colporters were kept at work in the army. These were kept supplied with tracts, Bibles and Testaments, but for this year the exact records have been lost. I regret that I have been unable to obtain fuller and more exact reports of the ot
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 5
chool of Christ. From the very first day of the unhappy contest to the present time, religious influences have been spreading among the soldiers, until now, in camp and hospital, throughout every portion of the army, revivals display their precious, saving power. In one of these revivals over three hundred are known as having professed conversion, while, doubtless, there are hundreds of others equally blessed, whose names, unrecorded here, find a place in the Lamb's book of life. And in 1865, in reviewing the blessed work of saving souls amid the bloody scenes of four gloomy years, the board said: Millions of pages of tracts have been put in circulation, and thousands of sermons delivered by the sixty missionaries whom we have sent to our brave armies. If it could be known by us here and now how many souls have been saved by this agency, doubtless the announcement would fill us with surprise and rejoicing. Hundreds and thousands, we verily believe, have in this way obtaine
October 10th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 5
er detailing the operations of the society, said: The proposition is simply that we be allowed a credit with your society for the Scriptures we need—say to the value of £ 1,000— until such time as sterling exchange is reduced to about its usual cost—we paying interest on our purchase until the debt is liquidated. To this letter the following noble response was sent, granting the society three times the amount they asked, free of interest: London, 10 Earl Street, Blackfriars, October 10, 1862. the Rev. Dr. Myers: Dear Sir: I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of August, which did not, however, reach us until the 3d of this month. The request which it contains was immediately submitted to our committee for their consideration and decision, and I have much pleasure in informing you that it was unanimously agreed that your request should be complied with, and that the Scriptures should be sent as directed, to Messrs. Fraser, Trenholm & Co. The
May 8th (search for this): chapter 5
soldiers, almost without exception, have received me with great kindness, and have appeared very thankful for reading matter. Oh, how encouraging to a soldier is a word of sympathy! said one of these sick men to me. We have been enabled to bring out some 10,000 copies of the New Testament, and to publish over 5,000,--000 pages of tracts; and to-day have not less than twelve depositories in the different States and 150 tract distributers at work. A. E. Dickinson. Lynchburg, Virginia, May 8. There are about 3,000 in the hospitals of this city, and others are being brought here from more exposed points. It is the purpose of the authorities to establish hospitals at Liberty and Farmville. Several hundred sick soldiers are already in these two towns. The hospitals afford a most inviting field for religious effort. The solemn quiet and the serious reflections which pervade the soul of the sick soldier, who, far away from home and friends, spends so many hours in communing w
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