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one of God's angels has recorded the ‘exchange’ in the book above.
Time and the elements will soon smooth down the little hillock which marks his lonely bed, but invisible friends will hover around it till the dawn of that great day when all the armies shall be marshalled into line again-when the wars of time shall cease and the great eternity of peace shall commence.
The Missions of the different Churches to the
Southern armies was a work which, as we have seen, was attended by heaven's richest blessings.
In the report made by
Bishop Pierce to the Conferences of the
M. E. Church, South, of their part in this labor of love, he says:
The importance of our missionary work in the army cannot well be exaggerated.
Measurably shut out, as the Church is, from other fruitful missionary fields, the Providence and Spirit of God have opened to it here a field where the harvest is white, and where it only needs a wise disposition of laborers to insure an abundant in-gathering of souls.
We have considered how best we may make such a disposition of our means and labors in this field as to secure the advancement of God's kingdom and the promotion of his glory.
The men sent forth into this field were found in every part of the
South where men stood in arms.
Even in beleaguered
Charleston, where shells rained down for many months in the streets and on the houses, the faithful missionaries called the suffering but heroic soldiers to the hopes and blessings of the Cross.
A writer from that city tells of the terrible bombardment and the merciful preservation of the people under the good hand of God.
On Thursday evening three guns were opened simultaneously upon the devoted city, and in five hours one hundred and ten shots were made in rapid and awful succession.
It was a tempest of whizzing, screaming bolts of destruction, agitating the air and reverberating
