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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
ave an opportunity of preaching the Gospel to our soldiers, and I bless God that he permits me to labor in such a held of usefulness. N. W. Calhoun. Brother J. C. Clopton, one of our colporters, writes: During my stay among the forces under General Jackson I heard little profanity. There are many pious, Christian men in d by one tract. At the annual session of the Strawberry Association, a little more than a year ago, while the claims of colportage were before that body, Rev. J. C. Clopton, of Lynchburg, made some affecting remarks in reference to his son, who had recently entered the service, and spoke of the solicitude his wife felt, and of him of life had it not lodged in the tracts, which were just over his heart. He seems solemnly affected, and I trust will soon be at the feet of Jesus. Brother J. C. Clopton: Passing along to the hospital and handing tracts to numbers of soldiers on the way, as I was approaching a man the evil one tempted me, suggesting that it
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 6: hospital work. (search)
s. Hume, Sr.; at Charlottesville, Elder W. F. Broaddus; at Lynchburg, Elders G. C. Trevillian and C. A. Miles; at Liberty, Elder Jas. A. Davis; at Scottsville, J. C. Clopton; at Culpeper Court House, Elder J. N. Fox; at the hospitals in the upper part of the Valley, Elders A. M. Grimsley and H. Madison; at Emory, Henry College, andfor about two weeks. At that date twenty soldiers had professed conversion and many others had asked an interest in the prayers of their pious comrades. Brother J. C. Clopton furnishes the following in reference to the Rockbridge Hospitals: As I go along among the hospitals my heart is pained at seeing so much to be done and blessed work to care for the souls of our brave boys. If I could reach the ear of every Christian in the Confederacy I would cry, Men of Israel! help! Mr. J. C. Clopton, who has been laboring at the hospitals in Staunton, and at the Rockbridge Alum Springs, writes: Oftentimes I see the soldiers reading the tracts for days af
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 9: State of religion in 1861-62. (search)
et me know where my heart lay, and by unveiling the reward that awaits the faithful to stimulate me to renewed and ever-increasing obedience. The Lord has permitted me to live, and I bless Him for it. I bless Him for anything, everything, He may choose to allot me. Our enthusiasm about earthly objects must, of course, be far less intense than when heaven, with all its glories and beatitudes, is the subject of our contemplation. A few days since, a chaplain at Gordonsville said to Brother J. C. Clopton: One hundred of the men in my regiment have professed conversion since we have been in the service, and the greater number spoke of your tracts as having been instrumental in leading them to Christ. Rev. W. L. Fitcher, our colporter in Petersburg, writes that over 300 have professed conversion in the hospitals of that city. A revival of religion is in progress in Lynchburg, and twenty were received into the Baptist Church of that city on Friday evening, on profession of faith in C