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gion had been enjoyed, and he believed that if the Christians of these Confederate States would arouse themselves to this work there will be such displays of Divine power and goodness among our armies as to astonish even our enemies. Rev. H. Talbird, D. D., President of Howard College, had for three months been in Virginia as Captain in the service. While there he visited eighteen regiments, and, to his astonishment, he found them schools of morality and virtue. He met with many young men who had been under his instruction in former years, and they assured him that this was true of their companies. Dr. Talbird wanted Alabama to share in the glory of caring for the souls of the brave men in service in Virginia. Rev. W. H. McIntosh has given his sons, and when they left him he felt more distressed in regard to the spiritual dangers to which they would be exposed than the physical. He thanked God that now the Colportage work was relieving his fears and surrounding his boys