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Gov. Shorter on army colportage. --A writer in the Religious Herald represents Gov. Shorter as being a most consistent and devoted Christian, and gives the following report of his speech in behalf of army colportage: His Excellency, John Gill Shorter, Governor of Alabama, was present, and made a most eloquent speech on being called to preside over the meeting. He said that to be selected to preside on such an occasion he felt to be a distinguished honor, for he did not think that a mGov. Shorter as being a most consistent and devoted Christian, and gives the following report of his speech in behalf of army colportage: His Excellency, John Gill Shorter, Governor of Alabama, was present, and made a most eloquent speech on being called to preside over the meeting. He said that to be selected to preside on such an occasion he felt to be a distinguished honor, for he did not think that a more important meeting had been held in this city since the war has been upon us. He really believed that this effort to evangelize our camps was one of the most important enterprises connected with this struggle. Independent of the joy and peace it carries to the soldier, sick, in a desolate hospital, or in active service on the field, independent of all it may do to ameliorate the soldier's spiritual constitution, and to prepare him for a heavenly inheritance, its influence on the success of o