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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 11: religious life of Lee's Army (search)
hes, should insist upon arraying himself in these butterfly things in the face of the fact that the next moment the long roll might turn him out into the deep snow or the guns of the enemy batter down his cantonment over his head. Another, speaking of the trivial things to which a man gives his heart and for which he may lose his soul, speculated with the finest — fancy as to what it was, and how very a trifle it may have been, that turned the heart and the gaze of Lot's wife back toward Sodom and turned her breathing body into a dead pillar of salt. And still another — a great, broad-shouldered, doublejointed son of Anak, with a head like the Farnese Jove and a face and frame indicative of tremendous power, alike of character and of muscle-delivered himself of his experience in one of the most graphic and moving talks I ever listened to. He said in substance: Brethren, I want you to know what a merciful, forgiving being the Lord is, and to do that I've got to tell you w