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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)
And I have heard a number of chaplains bear emphatic testimony to the same effect. Indeed our army converts seemed to take it for granted that instead of being dumb Christians, they were to take up their cross at once in leading in prayer, and in speaking for Christ in the meetings. They used to have brigade prayer-meetings, regiment prayermeetings, company prayer-meetings and mess prayer-meetings, and prayer-meetings to prepare for prayer-meetings, until one of our missionaries (Rev. J. E. Chambliss) reported to our Chaplains' Association that he could find no time in Davis's Mississippi Brigade to preach without conflicting with some prayermeeting. I have incidentally illustrated the earnestness with which these young converts went to work to lead their comrades to Christ, and have space here for only one more illustration of this point. In Gordon's Georgia Brigade (in a meeting conducted by my friend and brother, Dr. A. B. Woodfin, who was one of our most efficient chapla