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William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 5: helps to the revival-colportage. (search)
fforded them a fine field in which to labor for the souls of their fellow-men. Some few hesitate to take a Testament, though they will accept a tract. One man positively refused a Testament but took the tract, A Mother's Parting Words to her Soldier Boy, by the reading of which he was deeply moved and became a true penitent, asked me to pray for him, and finally died in the triumphs of faith. To a young man who felt himself a sinner I gave Motives to Early Piety. He was led to Christ, whom ile passing through a hospital with my tracts one poor, afflicted soldier wept piteously and said, Sir, I cannot read; will you be good enough to read some of those tracts to me? I read several, and among them, A Mother's Parting Words to her Soldier Boy. Oh, said he, that reminds me so much of my poor old mother, who has faded from earth since I joined the army. He wept and seemed greatly affected. Rev. George Pearcy, writing from Lynchburg, Va., says: I collected from Sunday Schools and