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J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
enemies, but calmly dedared his conviction that he was to be executed contrary to the laws of civilized warfare. He accepted his doom as the will of God. Dr. Weston, chaplain of the Seventh New York Regiment, visited him on the 18th of February, the day whence a respite deferred his execution to the 24th of the same month, and Beall received him with marked courtesy. He found him provided with a Bible, but without a prayer-book. Yet (as he tells us in his diary), as early as the 29th of December, the doorman of the police Headquarters had bought him a Book of Common Prayer, for $1.00. What, then, had become of it, that on the morning first appointed for his execution he had no prayerbook? It is almost too sadly sacred to relate. He had sent it, a gift of life from the hands of death, to his betrothed! His Bible had been obtained in prison; upon opening it at random his eyes fell first upon these sublime verses: For our light affliction, which is but for the moment, worket