A C9RISTIAN ADDRESS 
 
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 CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. 
 
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 TED AT THE REPUBLICAN 0, 
 
 
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A CHRISTIAN ADDRESS 
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 CONFEDERATE ARMY 
 
 Soldiers : — 
 
 You imd yourselves suddenly plunged inr.o all the real 
 ities ©f a hard service, away from home, at the hazard of 
 property, health and life. Why are you where you ar 
 Unlike the armies of Europe, the unconsulted, unery 
 ing subjects of mere power, you do not fight like ma ,.> 
 
 simply because you are bidden. Never was the: 
 arary so entuely one m heart and mind, with the authori- 
 ties in command, civil and military. Their counsels are 
 your co'L.nseis,»and their objects are your objects, one un-- 
 di\ ided. Never were theresuch immense armiefl in the field . 
 who so longed for peace and home, and who wore so re- 
 solved to see neither until the work which they had un- 
 dertaken should be accomplished. 
 
 But this is not enough. You, as well as the authorities in 
 command; are amenable to truth and justice, ard to the 
 judgments of an eternal world. Therefore, when an* 
 man, bo he friend or foe, Statesman or Christian, asks 
 " What are you fightvx? for P' you ought to be prepared to 
 give an irrefutable answer ; for if this war be. rr oraily 
 wrong on your part, no Christian Address to you could 
 open with anything less than the warning words of the 
 prophet: "Break off from your sins by righteousness and 
 from your iniquities by turning unto Goof." Throw down 
 your arms and go home— it is better to suffer tyranny and 
 spoliation, anything, rather than be in a moral 
 

 i\ then are the true merit? of 1 - 
 
 F , ucn a fea stion we must go to the bottom o 
 
 thin 
 
 tnitting any amount of sin, which may be en 
 upon individuals oi t party B] ition, 
 
 such as exi trnments, arid of w 
 
 has had its full share, the follows s coun- 
 
 try held to be indisputable, while they are admitted by 
 not a few in the very country widen is seeking our des I 
 
 ti'on : 
 
 eri long engaged iii making tfar 
 
 the South. For more than forty years it i 
 
 (1 pon In this form it came to be unparalled ia 
 
 bitterness and calumny. Tho 
 aided of late years by the pulpit - "*€ 
 
 ict of this war has been tl 
 educator ' the mind. This press, including all the pa- 
 pers of Urge circulation, and falling more arc! i 
 the "sensation" style, has stirred up popular prejudice 
 and hatred, and greatly increased popular ienoran 
 g upon the fact of there being f 
 
 ■ ;>es in the South in domestic servitude, th 
 brought here originally under English law, hy English 
 non-residents and against the will oi the i 
 English and Northern slave traders. 
 
 At the adoption of the Constituti"- populatien 
 
 was found to be an inseparable element in the Souti 
 States, at once their burden and their trust. Their exclu- 
 sive control was of right guaranteed to 
 States in which they were found by the most stri: 
 obligation? of the national faith, and it was upon this 
 ground that these States became a party io the Con 
 tion, in which instrument the slave is accurately des* 
 as a person held to service ; and the State laws male 
 service the " chattels" — not his person, which is pro;. 
 by various enactments ; and it is observed of these '.. 
 000 thus held to service, that no similar number of peer.' -, 
 upon record ever rose so rapidly from the savage st 
 civilization, Christianity and general happiness. 
 improvement is still in progress by the will of the States, a.. . 
 they will enjoy, as fast as they are prepared for it, al 
 liberty compatible with the joint interest of the two I 
 
this pro-. • . 'South is 
 
 made use of, not only for the formation of Northern 
 
 hostile to the South, but as a convenient engine for 
 perpetual agitation and excitement by all the arts of 
 .ood, ridicule and malignant wit, respecting not only 
 ,-, outat length every thyag Southern ; a stateof things 
 wl ich the South could find no peace or rest frpm ag 
 .... That she had in Congress and elsewhere some 
 who were arrogant and of extreme opinions does not alter the 
 leading facts in the ease at all. Meanwhile, the sensation 
 papers — there great genii of evil — were in rivalry : each 
 striving to outdo the others in. the cultivation of a field 
 so productive of fruit for the taste which they had created, 
 until the stream of sectional calumny became a torrent 
 destructive, as all wise men had foreseen it certainly 
 I be, of every bond which could hold such a govern- 
 ment together. Commercial interests, too, had unfortu- 
 f been long running in the same channels with this 
 supra scriptural and fac ; lions philanthropy upon the 
 slavery question, in the history of which it has been 
 >bserved of all who have given themselves up to it, yet »t 
 has worked in them the notion of a law— not only higher 
 than the laws of their country, but higher than the law 
 of God, and those meetings in which it comes to its last 
 zation with men and women are scenes of shocking 
 . blasphemous infidelity. 
 These malign influences united, first carried the State 
 elections, and in the Northern legislatures the first bars 
 of the Union gave way. Nine of them passed laws under 
 . le of personal liberty bills, which were not only couched 
 in terms studiously offensive to the South, but which v. ere 
 rectand palpable violation of the Constitution of the 
 United States. "Its plainest provisions could no longer 
 be executed in the Northern States except at the perijl 
 of the Southern man's life. In fact, they could not bo 
 ■ ted at all. The plea of these laws being for the 
 protection of free negroes, was hypocritical, since it was 
 pretended that even one such had ever been claimed. 
 But those in the lead of this invasion of the South could 
 wait for laws — even their own. In October, 
 long and extensive preparations in the North., an 
 ion ivas made into Virginia to produce a servile 
 
insurrection and general slaughter. 
 
 murdered in the night by abolitionists, and nothin 
 
 le good providence of G ted an indiscr 
 
 massacre. I q ijority of the 
 
 demned this invasion, or seemed to do so. I say 
 
 ;everal of the States refused to give un such of 
 ourderers as escaped, while there was an' ominous 
 nprity who opehry with the - 
 
 and held public meetings in their honor. 
 i :. Federal C next overborne and made a 
 
 war of disunion, now to be carried 
 property as well as character and peace. 
 Fhough the South was the 1 . j Iticer of f1 
 
 U in the world, she was not allowed 
 ■icfitofit. Th made chiefly to ac 
 
 the North, through the tariff and navigation la ■■ 
 her inexorable laws of I i JNOrth col 
 
 t .was on. bscuredby theorie 
 
 sd. But the next 
 P*i . en of a pretence. The North seized upon 
 
 • territories. It v. • ,. v Vv - er0 thc com . 
 
 mon property of na : bat the North resor 
 
 ■ h.gher law and pleaded conscience f • ft 
 could not "extend slavery"— though it was demon- 
 able that the South would not by taking her portion 
 • hv? I,J " d One to the number of slave- but on 
 
 the contrary give the blacks as .Jl hiU 
 
 rig out, an opportunity to get a bettei . I 
 
 n -the North said to the South, you shall have iiofle 
 
 into them, though lying next you a: 
 you leave your property behind you, and move into them 
 as Northern men. Thus the South saw herself stringed of 
 all her property in the territories, and stripped by law for 
 by foreign emigration the Nerth had now the power to 
 
 Finally a sectional and anti-Scuthern canciidate was 
 
 rrated for the Presidency, and the principal document 
 
 ted by the party from Washington to carry his election'. 
 
 bohtion essay by a Senator from Massachu 
 
 bo had been endorsed by the Legislature of that 
 
 exhausted all the r>t)<vers of sectional de- 
 
 md insult and a- if to make the mora' dfcu 
 
nion complete and irreparable, it was thrust upon the aifr 
 ire South through the mails. This sectional candidate was 
 decied — t3ao first in the history of the Republic, and as 
 might have been foreseen of any such election it has prov- 
 ed the last — for what was the result? The South found 
 herself completely at the mercy of the North, with all 
 power in the hands of an irresponsible majority, and thai 
 majority her enemies, to control her property and hei 
 mer.ee by a system under which she had long groaned, and 
 the North grown rich and able to oppress that section 
 which her property chiefly had come. What could the 
 South do under a war of this sort, growing more and more 
 formidable every year. It is said in reply that she [i 
 had left for her protection the Constitution and the Supreme 
 Court. But every knowing and impartial person foresaw 
 that these barriers would as certainly yield as the other 
 powers of the Government had yielded. The party leaders 
 whom the North was following had already in their 
 speeches assailed and repudiated the decisions of the 
 Supreme Court, and the new Executive who had done the 
 same thing in his very first official act, could and would 
 soon mould that court to his mind by the appointment of 
 new judges. And could any man doubt that the Conafci-: 
 rution which had been so summarily set aside by a major- 
 ity of the Northern States in their State capacity, would 
 oe as certainly set aside under one pretext or another by 
 fche.se same parties in their national capacity, so soon as 
 they were ready for it? If there be a doubt upon this 
 point, it is dispelled by the prompt, flagrant and admitted 
 trampling under foot of both the Constitution and laws 
 by the excited and maddened Federal Executive and 
 Congress within the past six months. 
 
 But it is further alleged that the South should have 
 sought a Constitutional redress of grievances by a call o.f 
 a general convention of all the States to release her from 
 the Union. But the parties who so allege are the very 
 parties who voted against every measure proposed in the 
 "Peace Conference" for the relief of the South, and will one 
 of them say they believe the North ever would have con- 
 sented to the calling of such a Convention at alii The 
 ,- hole world knows they would not. 
 
 to this point no one pretends that the S hacl 
 
tver infringed the Constitution either in its letter or spirit, 
 by State laws, courts or otherwise. The only cose urged, 
 that of imprisoning negro sailors carried into South Caro- 
 lina contrary to the laws of the State, was overruled by a 
 subsequent decision of the Supreme Court, declaring that 
 such persons were not "citizens/' as it also decided that 
 the Missouri restriction upon slavery to which the South 
 had reluctantly submitted was also unconstitutional. 
 
 But surely the South should have waited until the sec- 
 tional party now in full power had proceeded to some overt 
 act of invasion — i. e. it should have waited until bound 
 hand and foot, and resistance had become impossible, as 
 it would have been within the first four years, jnore prob- 
 ably the first four months, of an administration now for the 
 first time inaugurated seetionally against the South. — 
 Moreover, the South by a deeper and juster view, saw 
 not in the late election a mere political defeat, such as ail 
 ea have in turn cheerfully submitted to, but the final 
 completion and triumph of a plan, which had been as- 
 suming a move and more definite shape since 1820. for en- 
 abling the North to govern her at will. 
 
 To the mass of the Northern people it would bo unjust 
 to call this a plan, for they did not intend anything of 
 the sort ; but they were led by those who did intend it. 
 They were educated to it, and no comprehensive observer 
 of the growingly sectional workings could doubt what 
 was the general drift of things, or what the issue must 
 certainly be — i. e. just what it has proved to be. A polit- 
 ical leader has thoroughly misled the Northern under- 
 standing by the false dogma of the " irrepressible con- 
 flict," and as thoroughly corrupted its conscience by its 
 twin dogma of the " higher law,"' and this same leader 
 had been heard to say some years ago, when he saw a 
 train filled with foreign emigrants : "These are the men 
 who will one day be righting our battles with the South' — 
 ;ion then innocent of the thought of war- 
 
 What then could be done? All remedies affording a 
 shadow of hope had been exhausted. It had come to 
 sectional subjugation or secession. Waiving the dispute 
 about the Constitutional right of sovereign States to se- 
 cede, in which a majority of you probably do not believe,none 
 dispute the right of States or other communities to re ; eet 
 
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 any existing government upon sufficient cause, or that 
 "here may be such causes, as in our American Revolution. 
 The South judged that she had such cause, and eleven 
 great States, comprising a territory as large as all Europe, 
 Russia excepted,) and one of the richest in the world, united 
 and declarod their independence. Three other States 
 are with them in heart, as they would be in fact, but for 
 their dread of the Federal invader. 
 
 The South did, indeed, take " the publlic property" 
 within her bounds ; not a tithe of what she was entitled 
 to upon a fair division, but for which she offered to pledge 
 herself upon a final settlement. She asked no more, and 
 wished to go in peace, and did everything in her power 
 compatible with her independence to prevent war. Fort 
 Sumter was not touched until a hostile fleet was known 
 to be on its way from New York. Virginia, with a Union 
 majority of three to one, did not secede until her com' 
 missioners to Washington had been refused even a hear- 
 ing, and she saw by the Federal call for a large army that 
 the alternative was submission to the policy of the Repub- 
 lican administration, whatever it might be, or invasion by 
 force of arms. The alternative before the whole South 
 was an independent government or subjugation. She 
 could not hesitate. She chose — you chose the former at 
 whatever hazards of conflict with such an enemy, and it 
 is perhaps plain enough now that she did not strike for 
 liberty a day too soon. 
 
 The difficulties were past all reconciliation. The North 
 had already carried on the war too long. The disunion* 
 in feeling she had made an impassable gulph. 
 
 The North has now come seeking the blood of oiw cit 
 izens, and upon what plea? — the public property? one 
 has nearly the whole of it already. Is it the restoration 
 of the Union ? She knows that this is simply impossible, 
 except by establishing a military despotism ovor these 
 States, and "holding them as territories under governors 
 appointed from Illinois and Massachusetts," as sugg< 
 by a leading Republican Senator ; and it is this or some 
 equivalent which the North is now fighting for, since no 
 hope for a re-establishment of the Union is now even 
 professed. To carry out this design, a war is now being 
 waged upon us in a style better befitting savages Chan civ 
 
men. There ips, no example u 
 
 of one people so exceedingly mad against 
 hence the savage cruelties which have characte 
 
 ion. Our very bed chambers arc inf. 
 derers and thieves. Uur citizens found in the j 
 hunted down and imprisoned and their property confisca- 
 ted : -while in the Border and Northern State- 
 citizens, upon no ether ground than 
 sympathy with oar sufferings and wrongs, are • 
 the night, denied a trial, and hurried away to be > 
 nitely immured in the prison of Fort Lafayette. S 
 this Republican Bastile might stir the ashes of the 
 friend of liberty whose name it so inappro] ears. 
 
 But let us beware of injustice in ourselves, the 
 thing all complain of in others, and of that liability 
 we arc all under to cover up our own faults while W€ 
 gerate those of our enemies, and so pass an uni 
 judgment, which good men should fear more thai I 
 of a battle. We cannot doubt that there are th - 
 North who have no unholy no • 
 
 Lave been persuaded that it is right to force I 
 federate States into subjection to the United St 
 whatever cost," (to use their own exj v 
 
 laughter. They sincerely believe the South to 
 the wrong. Their error is in the attempt, to right them- 
 selves upon such a scale of distruction. But will] 
 number the motive is ambition and revenge. With 
 great mass the motive is simply that of pecuniary ;. 
 
 holding the South'. in this as] 
 
 ence between us is this : V» r e are lighting for ou- 
 jiroperty, they for their neighbors'. Their position :• 
 of one holding a pistol to the breast of the South 
 5, "your money or your life." Their lor 
 so far as we can gain any know! 
 are an acknowledgement of their right to rule 
 obey ouch laws as they may make; the ha! 
 stance to pay the costs of their invasion, and extern 
 tion, by fire and sword, if we do not submit. 
 
 Now while we hold all wars of aggression an 1 ir.v 
 
 .ontrary to the will of God. as they are pj 
 
 :o bis word, those strictly in self-defer 
 >: individual self- defense be lawful, national s^ : 
 
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 stands on precisely the same ground ; and if this be no- 
 lawful there can be no end to tyranny or conquest. We 
 
 or fall, then, in this war of self-defense, accord: - 
 the righteousness and sufficiency of our reasons. These 
 reasons are before you. They are your own reasons and 
 10 mine, and we not only spread them out before 
 the world for a righteous verdict — we spread them out 
 before God, and appeal to HIM as the God of Justice for 
 the justice of our cause, acting under the only guide to 
 conscience and duty known to us. Under these solemn 
 convictions we implore his assistance— 
 
 1st. As the God of pence, that if war be forced upon 
 us, he would save us from the war spirit, which is contrary 
 to his will, no matter how just our cause, and enable us to 
 tore our persecutors according to the sense of his own in- 
 jnriction. To love our persecutors is a plain Christian 
 duty, and by God's p-ace it is practicable. But fcr a:;y to 
 love those whom they are persecuting is impossible. 
 
 2d. As the God of wisdom and of right, that he vn\\ 
 save us from all counsels which he will not himself : | • 
 prove and bless, and if battle be forced upon us then 
 
 3rd. Vve implore him as the God of battles that He will 
 not suffer us to fall into the hands of such enemies — ene- 
 mies vindictively resolved to drive the plow-share of war 
 not only through the Southern soil, but through the 
 Southern heart. 
 
 Here then is your answer to the question: ""What are 
 you lighting for ?"' It is the answer which we give to 
 other nations, whether they now understand our position 
 or not. And what, is of infinitely more importance, it is 
 that which we humbly regard as our .justification before 
 God, and his own authorization of this defense. If wfc 
 s.re in error, may He graciously show it to us, and give us 
 the humility to act accordingly. 
 
 I have placed "his political statement first in this Chris- 
 tian address for two reasons : first, because the facts which 
 it recites lay at the vory foundation of things, and so gov- 
 ern the question of right and wrong, and so govern the 
 question of duty in this most responsible act of your lives- 
 :. presently and mainly to talk about religion ; but 
 
 . rain to talk about religion while voluntarily engaged 
 ntfrary to the will of God, I also' place 
 
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 this srv . :st, because at the beginnteg I had dc i 
 
 5S8 of resistance by force if 
 arms. 
 
 An elaborate revipw of the facts taken in their his* 
 order and connection, weakened those doubt-.. The refusal 
 of all ?edres ua promise, and the Federal inau. 
 
 red them ; an ■; 
 that v.'ar ajid the savage sei 
 of the North toward o\:. 
 
 n the court of 
 •work in which you are engaged, I come to the dir 
 of tins address. We, of the greft! 
 of the people at hon that for ou 
 
 own, you, are i to all these hardships and 
 
 perils. Wai . himself in the fore 
 
 front of the great judgements which he visits upon the 
 world for sin, 5 Is, by Him before pestih 
 
 ■i.'idfu: , : »st heavily, though per 
 
 sonally you or bettor, than and 
 
 bund svu rou, got 0|jly by relati 
 
 whose faces you have n 
 It is fell bodily health and 
 
 innumerable hands at work for you 
 : and by nigh ... I ^hich 
 
 for your spiritual 
 bj the ardent pr 
 behalf, Our desire for 
 you, sur] 2 >the te that .you may be true 
 
 and thus h 
 loe. 
 ou have been professors of religion at h 
 tre now witnessing I jaion in the camp 
 
 To you the interests of religion are 
 now specially committed — interests pf greater moment 
 ■ j issue of battles or the fate of nations. May you, 
 ■ prove standard bearers for Him whose kingdoru 
 shall endure, when Jieave rth have passed away I 
 
 omeof you in whom (before yo.u entered the a: . 
 
 but a feeble principle at least, are in danger 
 •. You needed then all f he :n- 
 
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 ;■» by to keep you from falling away. What will become 
 of you now ? There is but one course. Throw yours 
 upon those special promises which arc made for speciaJ 
 temptations. The general influences of war 
 common consent, unfriendly to the Christian life, you 
 must be forewarned and forearm'ed against that which is 
 feure to come. Sometimes the batteries of .Satan must he 
 faced and stormed and silenced. In other, an I 
 
 frequent eases, retreat is not cuily the path of safety, 
 but of wisdom, as in war you must retire fi sitidtt 
 
 which you cannot defend. When a weak < 
 counters strong temptation, discretion is the bett< i 
 of valor. If you can escape temptation, arid do n 
 may expect to fall ; but if you cannot escape an 
 (jod for help, you. have his promise fov the v: 
 Pear of the world is probably nowhere s6 strong 
 army and many who have beer: truly converted 
 there than any where else to be ashamed 
 ion — ashamed of Christ! Think of it, and 
 cease to think of it, UJftil you can say; vrii 
 sincerity- - 
 
 " No, when 1 blush bo this my shame, 
 
 That I ho more revere his name/' 
 
 not 'neglect the means of success wh'i 
 
 en for those much stronger than you. Can 
 tory be won without a fight? When Col. Gardner, that 
 [u ■ . ovtift&l, had to march at six, he rose at four I tr 
 he Bible and prayer. Watch and pray, and 
 .1 brethren will watch and pray for you at home; 
 But the great mass in the army ara elsewhere do not 
 profess any religion at all, or believe themselves ever to 
 have beten,born again, without which Christ . 'man 
 
 . ':■ the kingdom of heaven. To tin 
 iondition there are Several -things which '. in 
 •est and your duty to consider : — 
 Lst. The first thing as people generally rrfi 
 I..: the fear of death : but experience | 
 think as little of death as others, and fin I. tin f it a; 
 
 procluctive of true religion. In fact this fi ■ 
 >rth in the Bible with any sp • . 
 
 . .. to mal -■ a; jom >. i 
 
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 should tes . that 
 
 • aid be at home. ".' I only the 
 
 ith an in - 
 ips. If all men may then be 
 
 appeal I f the un- 
 
 - . much more the soldi 
 
 is a greater matter than this to be considered. 
 
 2d. Tnc exposure qfitht :<-,-,■. Jf yon have beer, anytime 
 . p, and ever knew anything before about the circunv 
 3 and means under which men generally become 
 Christians, you have only to compare your present situa- 
 it once was, to see that the danger oi • 
 r ted and saved is very much inen 
 by your be 
 
 solemnly to this fact would be both unfaithful and un- 
 i md. But remember a 
 
 3rd. 77' d in the a 
 
 Examples ave not wanting in your own camps of tho°e 
 into the ranks unconverted sinners, who are nov! 
 I Hi- istians, prepared equally to live or die. God also has 
 
 promised that when in the discharge of one du 
 hindrances are encountered, in the discharge of an 
 and greater duty to himself he will give grace in propor- 
 tion. Do not then be d; i in the least, or I 
 yen must put off" religion until you get out of the army, 
 for you may pass directly from the army to your las I 
 count, or what is more probable and more to be dreaded. 
 you may leave the army in such a state of hardness and 
 indifference as will render your conversion more improb- 
 able in peace than it is now in war. 
 
 4th. Remember the promise: Him (hat cometh unto vu, J 
 willin no wise cast out. Christ is the Saviour of sinners, and 
 will hear the cry of those who call upon him, no matter 
 when cr where, if they repent of their sins, and believe or* 
 him as the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the 
 world, and who came to seek and to save those who were 
 lost. 
 
 5th. Remember t<o use the means of conversion. At- 
 tend upon the public services of religion held among you. 
 Read the bible and pray in private, .and let your secret 
 thoughts be rising to God through the day, or when pacing 
 your 'rounds in the silent night. Remember also the 
 
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 preying tent, of whidh I believe there is one or mo? 
 
 every camp, where if you desire it you'may have the oppor- 
 tunity to worship God and seek his blessings in concert — 
 his blessing upon yourselves and his' blessing upon your 
 cause. Those who are ashamed of Christ he himsel 
 
 earned of and cast off among his enemies at the 
 judgment day. 
 
 Remember the day ic keep it holy. And h- 
 
 would re&pectfully, yet most firmly, urge upon the c:' 
 the duty of obedience to the command of the Almighty ; 
 and that on this day there be no drills or inspections or 
 parades, and, except in cases of palpable necessity, nd 
 marches. A leading organ of the enemy proclaim' 
 the opening of their war that there would be no more 
 Sunday until they had finished it : and they chose that 
 day on which to fight at Manassas Junction; and -it is 
 said that there is no record of a battle in modern times 
 begun on that day which did not end disastrously to tfcfc 
 party which begun it, 
 
 Need I speak of the effects of the use of intoxi 
 liquors, not only morally,- but as in all cases with those 
 who are well, tending to produce disease, and not health, 
 and destructive of the very purpose for which an army 
 was raised at all? Or need 1 speak of profane swearing, 
 which is forbidden by the Almighty in words as distinct 
 and authoritative as those which spoke the world mpo 
 being? Gen. Washington, that noblest of soldiers, pro- 
 hibited this vice in his army under penalties, and this 
 on the ground cf the provocation offered to the Most 
 High, the need of whoso assistance he so deeply felt and 
 so promptly acknowledged. The drunken and the pro 
 fane are a disgrace to any cause. 
 
 The soldier who has no regard for lh» will, 
 
 must endure the hardships and p'erils of war from some 
 inferior motive, but he whose first concern is to approve 
 himself to God may be depended upon for all lesser du- 
 ties. He will endure not only the march and the fight, 
 but he will, for the sake of his caused submit to a strict 
 discipline ; and not only submit to it himself, but by his 
 example and his words and whole influence seek to pro- 
 mote it in others ; and what is muoh more difBcujt for a 
 gentleman, rather than injure the service, he will submit 
 
astice or ill manners of unwoH 
 be his inferiors in evory thing bui rank. Ha has 
 rked in a cause for the sake of which he will ei 
 any thing. He is fighting to deliver from oppression mi T - 
 Iions who cannot fight for themselves. Hi3 is one of fche 
 ;;:aruest struggles in history, in which nothing can give 
 : u. ; subjection to discipline, such power of endurance 
 and such invincible courage in the field, as true re 1 
 It conn: 1 , en ce in the presence and power < : 
 ^ilri^hty which it always imparts. It was this; which 
 made the first armies of Cromwell the terror of all Eu- 
 rope. The soldier who is faithful in the ranks deserves 
 the highest consideration in this world, ai 
 should fail to receive it here, God's approval is his h 
 reward, and he can afford to wait for it until he 
 the Great Commander 7 )) vcice which calls, t j r.oe 
 
 and glory m the highest heavens. 
 
 Soldiers and brethren — my heart's desire and 
 Goa for you is that you may be saved — saved frc 
 from defeat, from sickness and from death — saved 
 sin mid saved from hell; and this isth'- 
 ten :nousand hearts in your behalf, and— 
 
 * - * ''If ever fond-- 
 
 For ethers' weal availed oa L: : 
 Mine shall not be wholly lost ii ill 
 But w&ft you nazro-- beyox i