The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Bibles and bayonets.

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Bibles and bayonets.

--A gentleman who has given $2,000 towards arming a company of volunteers, has sent $100 to the Superintendent of the Baptist Colportage to buy Bibles and tracts for the army. Another who had given $4,000 towards equipping soldiers, sends $50 to aid in publishing religious tracts adapted to the army. This latter gentleman is not connected with any church, but like all true Southerners he desires that the restraining and purifying influence, of Christianity be brought to bear on our soldiery.--This indicates a very different state of things from what was stated in a recent address of a distinguished New York Doctor of Divinity, in which he charged that the Southern army was composed of heathens and infidels, and that few, if any, would possess a copy of the New Testament. We honestly believe that the most reckless and ungodly man in the Southern army has entered more fully into the true spirit of the Gospel than all the blood-thirsty Henry Ward Beechers that ever disgraced the sacred pulpit.

The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 20, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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