A Colporteur's report.
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Mr. Henry Madison, who is laboring as Colporteur in the encampments around the city, in the employ of the Baptists, furnishes us with the following interesting report of his labors:
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"During the past month I have sold $22.70 worth of books, and have given away, including Testaments and Tracts, about an equal amount.
I hold religious conversation with hundreds every day, and am often greatly delighted with what the soldiers tell me in regard to their religious experience.
One said to me, the other day, 'I have a pious wife at home; she prays for me, and I would not take anything in the world for those prayers.' He requested me to bring him certain good books, which he wished to send to his wife.
Many seem very anxious to get Testaments and small Bibles and Tracts.
Officers, as well as privates, are very kind, and I am permitted to go freely among the soldiers, from camp to camp, trying to urge upon them the claims of the Gospel."
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