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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Testaments and Religious Tracts for our soldiers. (search)
Testaments and Religious Tracts for our soldiers. --From the Wilmington (N. C.) Daily Journal, of the 11th inst., we copy the following. We are glad to learn that Rev. A. E. Dickinson, General Superintendent of Army Colportage, intends to establish a depository in our city, which will be supplied with Testaments, Tracts, and other religious publications. By this arrangement our soldier can the more easily be supplied with religious reading. His object is one which commends itself to the religious community by its own intrinsic merits, apart from any mere temporal advantage to be derived from it; white even those who look no farther than to its immediate reflects, bear witness to the great power of religious reading and instruction in improving the morals of the camp, and the discipline and efficiency of the army. Mr. Dickinson brings with him the following testimonial, which vouch sufficiently for his own character, as well as for the estimate placed upon his wo