“The many conversions in camp, the prayer-meetings in soldiers’ tents, of which we have heard, and the letters we have seen breathing emotions of piety that have been awaked by the exposures and sufferings of the army, induce us to believe that this war will lead many a soul to the Cross that might otherwise have perished in impenitency.”

From a sermon entitled God our refuge and strength in this war : a discourse before the congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the day of humiliation, fasting and prayer, appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (1861) “But in spite of all these things, I believe, that there has never [...]

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