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glowed with an unearthly radiance, and while he spoke ‘our hearts burned within us.’
He urged us to look for it-pray for it-preach for it. A revival in the army!
The thing was incredible.
And yet, while we listened to this man of faith, we could almost hear the shouts of redeemed souls that were being born to God.
We could but catch the zeal of this good man, and went away resolved to work for a revival.”
This pious man was not permitted to participate in the revival which he so feelingly predicted.
He was soon called to the spirit world, and from his home among the blessed looked down upon the glorious scenes of salvation among the soldiers whom he loved so ardently, and for whom he prayed with a faith strong and unfaltering.
A General Association of Chaplains and Missionaries had been formed in this army in August of this year (1863), but the subsequent movements interfered greatly with its complete organization, and it was not until November following that it was properly reorganized and made really efficient.
Rev. Dr. McDonald, President of Lebanon University, was the President, and Rev. Walborn Mooney, of the Tennessee Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was the Secretary.
The proceedings of this Association Mr. Browning supposes were lost in the subsequent reverses of the army, and hence we are cut off from most reliable information concerning the progress of the revival.
The seeds of truth were sown by such faithful laborers as Rev. M. B. DeWitt, chaplain of the 8th Tennessee, Rev. Mr. Weaver, of the 28th Tennessee, Rev. Timon Page, of the 52d Tennessee, and Rev. W. H. Browning, chaplain of Gen. Marcus Wright's brigade.
In other portions of the army, under the preaching of Rev. S. M. Cherry, Rev. Messrs. Petway, Taylor, Henderson, and scores of other devoted and self-sacrificing ministers, the revival influence became deep and powerful.
Rev. L. R. Redding, Methodist, of the Georgia Conference,
Philadelphia, 1877.
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