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JU'mi) anil |\avn Jerald.
ROItCKT J. il ARl*. Editor.
MACON, GA., MAKCII 23, 1865.
Now Publications. •
Just, issued, by Robert J. Harp. Superinten
dent for the Soldiers’ Tract Association, for
gratuiiou* distribution to the soldiers :
Paragraph Edition Gospel acoobdins to
I<!t. Mattiikw, (Small Ps'‘a.) 72 pages 12 no
Battista ; a Story translated from the “ Am
ieo di Cask.” 8 page*.
Christ ot:R Only IturcoE. 8 pages.
\V it at Think vk or Christ ? 12 pages.
Tub Christian War far*. 12 pages.
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We call attention to the advertisement of
Mr. Tatem, in unother column Wc have seen
the ink tested and it % oil it purports to be.
Try it.
Article from Rev. L. Pierce. D. D
We call attention to the first number of a con
t,ribu:i m from the pen of the venerable Hr
Pierce to be found in another column, to be
continued several number■ The subject is
one of universal tut i absorbing interest a* the
present critical period in our it' tional attains,
and we hep- it vib recciv> -ie attei-.ti'ur it
merits.
Aii Affecting Incident
We have just mud a letter written iron
Newberry, S. by a soldier in the army of
Tennessee, to his uncle at Oglethorpe, Ga ,
which stales, that while on detached service
eotne time ago, a detachment was hospitably
entertained by an elegant young lady, who to
eeived thorn in the parlor and gave them a
sumptuous meal. <> ie of the number passing
(die game road, after Sherman’s hordes had
passed over the country, found the same young
lady in a hut, living on parched corn. He
gave her all the provisions his haversack con
tuined. Wi-.eu sue received them, she burst
into tears, saying she never would breathe a
prayer to Heaven, nut. what ne snout,t be te
memhered.
The same writer Hates that tSherman burnt
in Columbia twelve hundred private houses,
besides those for public u-e. and that seven
thousand persons were at that time drawing
rations from the* Governmeui.
Liberality of Augusta, Ga
One hundre 1 and twenty seven thousand del
lars in money, and fifty thousand dollars worth
of provisions have bee 1 ., contributed in the city
of Augusta, for the benefit of the Columbia suf
ferers.
The impressment law recently pa-sed by Con
gress. requires the payment of fu market pri
ces for everything impressed for the army.
Terrible Earnestness.
The New York News thus comment-* on the
proposition that the .South abandon slavery rath
#t than independence :
“The Southern people iusist on separation
with terrible earnestness. Their domestic affec
tions they have already sacrificed for that pur
pose. They propose now to give up for its ac
complishment an immense interest that hits
found deep root in their political passions. The
hates with which their hearts have been inflam
ed by Federal atrocities, they stand determined
to follow out, at even Site cost of the sacrifice
of the institution of slavery ! If the President,
be capable of rising superior to the passions or
the intrigues of fashion, he unu-t learn to deal
with the relations of the section:, with a correct
appreciation of that astounding fact.
“ Slavery lies at the foundation of Southern
society. That system of labor is interwined in
the Uoufcdera y around all the right of proper
ty. Prejudice and pride hedge it round about
in the Southern soil. Attachment and duty
have engrafted it in the Confederacy side by
side with domestic affect ion. To pluck that sys
tem from their hearts, to tear it from the very
base of their social organization, shows a terri
bleness of purpose at, which even bloody fana
ticism must stand against.
“The South declares tbat tdie fights but for
her freed om. The sincerity of that declaration
she proposes now to place under the proof of a
sublime sacrifice. The republicanism which
made her Suites free and independent, she, vows
between clenched teeth to preserve at the. cost
of not only her heart’s blood, but by the sacri
fice of deep passion of her soul. The fierce de
termination placed thus in proof will undount-.
edly satisfy mankind that the issue of the war
henceforth is the involving the sacred right of
self government. The Abolitionist or the Dem
ocrat who in these Staffs, continues henceforth
to sustain the whr docs so, therefore,’ in full
knowledge of the fact t hat the St at es of t lie South
can never be brought back,-save only- as con
quered Provinces trailing at the heels of a des
potic centralization.” 1
THE ARMY & NAVY HERALD.
Hints for Daily Practice.
| 1. Come by faith to the blood of Christ, that 1
1 all your sins may be pardoned.—Lev. xvi. 11; 1
Ileb. ix. 14, 28; Epli. i. 7, ii. 13; 1 Pet, i. 19: j
1 John i. 7.
2. Seek by prayer the help of the Holy- Spir
it.—Luke xi. 13; Horn. viii. 26, 27 ; Gal. v. 22,
23; Eph.ii. 13; James iii. 17.
3. Try to recolh-ct continually that God is
always present, knowing every thought you
think, hearing every word you speak, and ob
serving everything you do-a—Prov. it. 3; I’s.
cxxxix, 2-4, 12; iizek. xi. 5; Heb. iv. 13.
4. Live upon Christ as the life-giving root
of ali true holiness.—John viwST—sß, xv. 4-8;
Col. ii. 3, 4.
5. Before you speak, ask these three ques
tions : Is what 1 am going to say true ? is it use
ful‘l is it. kind?—Pa. cxv. 2, cxli. 3 ; l’rov. xv.
1,2; iv. 15, 2f>, 20, 31, 32.
6. Pray for a calm and thoughtful state of
uiiud, trust ing al ways in the Lord, for you know
not what a day may bring forth.—Job x.xii. 21;
Isa. xxvi. 3,4; Hug. i. 5 ; Matt. xi. 29; John
xtv. 20, 27 ; Phil. iv. 2-7; James i. 2-7.
7. Remember that if religion has done noth
ing lot your temper, it has done little for your
soul; and see, therefore, that your temper be
kiud, merciful, cheerful, meek, and affectionate.
—Rom xiii. 10; James i. 26, I Pet. iii. 8-11.
8. Work while it is called to-day , for the
glory of God and the good of men.—John ix. 1;
1 (kir. v 31 ; Gal. vi. 10.
Report
Os Ucv. Wm. F. Camp, if. D,, General Business
and Collecting Agent for Cast Alabama and
Florida, to Rev. Robert J. Harp, Superinten
dent. Statement, of amounts collected from
S l 'pi. 11 Ik. lSfit. to February 26ZA, 1865.
1804. CASH.
Sept. 11— Auburn.,Ala $ 544 50
' dept. 18—Union Spring, Ala 433 71
Sept. 25 i Chunuenuggee Ridge, Ala. 1,-109 33
-I Miss M. Carter, unpaid -üb
{ scrip’n 50 bushels corn.
Oct. 19—(’apt. YY T. Mickle 33 33
Get-. 23—Selma, Ala 502 10
Oct. 30—Smnmei field, Ala 2,401 66
Nov. 21 -Lev. YY. 6. Miilsaps, Miss. 100 tit)
Dee. 15—On ain’t due from Alt. Zion,
Alabama 23 33
Dec. 20 -Mrs. Col. A. G. Johnson, Ga 20 00
Dec. 25 j Quincy, Flu 412 75
\ Unpaid subscription.ss 00
Oec. 25 J Mnj. White, Quincy, Fla., I
\ bale cotton, paid. ■*’
Dec. 27 f Gadsden Cos. Bible Society. 58 (JO
\ Also, one 7-30 SIOO note.
Dee. 29 ( Davis Tenge, Bainbridge 3,000 00
J Also, 109,000 lbs. cotton and
j factory waste for making
! paper.
1865.
Jan. 1 / Tallahassee, Fla.., SOI 85
\ Unpaid subscripts.sßo 00
Jan. 3—Mrs. YY. E. Blake, Florida. 20 00
Jan. B—Concord Church, Leon to.,
Flo 88150
Unpaid suhserip'ns.s22 00
Jan. 12—8ubserip‘n, of Col. ,J. J. Wil
liams, I’allahassee, Fla..
unpaid .... SSOO
Jan. 1 5 j Bisgah, Leon 00., Fla 738 15
\ Unpaid subscripts.s3s 00
Jan. 22 ) Alonticello, F1a.... ... 400 00
1 Upp’d subsc’pns.s2,ooo OO
Jan. 29—Attnpulgus, Ga T... . 759 00
Feb. 18—T. L. Hart, Sharon, Miss. . 40 00
; Fob. 19 f Sharon, Miss 318 85
) Unpaid subset ip’n. S6O OO
• Feb. 26 l Canton, Miss . 181 50
I Unpaid subscript . .$25 OO
id still find an abiding interest in the spiritu
al welfare of our noble soldiers, manifested by
our churches and people ; but the heavy taxes
and scarcity of money accounts for sh• ■ falling
off of my collections from last year. 1 found
in Col. Baker, of Summerfield, Ala., a warm
friend to our cause, and cordial and earnest co
operator. Would that every Layman in our
church was animated, by a similar spirit. In
] Florida and South-western Georgia 1 met with
| the same, cordial welcome and generous hospi
| tality which was extended to*tne and our cause
I last year. That section has'done its part nobly
in Aie terrible struggle in which we are en
gaged. The liberality of one gentleman in
(hat serf ion deserves special notice ; I refer to
Mr. 8. Davis Tonge, of Bainbridge, Ga. Be
has given me for the Soldiers’ Tract Associ
ation $4,000 in money, and 100,000 pounds
waste cotton to make paper, worth to us at
least $30,050. His house is an asylum for the
sick and wounded soldier, where they enjoy
gratis his large hospitality until restored to
health. YYhen I was a sojourner with him, lie
had three soldiers from Maryland. The wound
ed from this State have a standing invitation
to his house, left at the vat ions hospitals in
Richmond. May his noble example stir up the
pure minds of others to “go and do likewise.”
I atn detained at, home now nursing a sick
wife, but hope soon to be in my appointed field
of labor. All of which is respectfully- submit
ted. Very truly yours,
Wst. F. Camp.
“ 1 lothe it; I would not live always ; let me
alone, for my days are vanity.”
Report
Os Rev. T. C. Weir, M. D., General Business
and Collecting Agent in the bounds of the Mo
bile Conference, to Rev. J. IF. Burke, Treas
urer.
The following is the report of my collections
during the months of January and-February,
1865, including subscriptions to the Army and
Navy Herald:
Jan. 8. .Meridian, Miss....: $ 70 00
Jan. 15.. Selma, Altk. 1,102 75
Jan. 80. .Enterprise,-Migs 309 00
Feb. 4. .Meridian) Miss 105 00
Feb. 12 .. Livingston, Ala. 873 50
Feb. 19. .Caliitba, Ala 525 50
Collected by Rev. J. W. Starr, in
subscriptions to the “Herald 1 ”... 120 00
UNl’Alt* SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Enterprise, Miss SIOO 00
Livingston, Ala 105 00
[For the Army and NaVy Herald.]
To the Officers arrtl ’Soldiers of the
Confederate Army.
»1 REV. L. PIEBCK.
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord; and the people whom he haih chosen for
his own inheritance.”—Psalms xxxiii: 12.
The followingcritical reflections, deduced from
the words of my text, I desire, through the
Army and Navy Herald, to submit to the con
sideration of (very officer and private in the
Confederate army who desires that the Confed
erate States of America, when exalted into the
condition of a nation, should understandfngly
be a nation whose God is the Lord, and the in
habitants thereof a people whom he has chosen
for his own inheritance.
To this end, 1 call their attention to the
proper understanding of the Scripture ideal of
a nation. Ido this, because I think our head
long way of viewing this noun of multitude, has
entirely lost the tlieoc: uic idea of a nation, in
the democratic idea. A nation, in any such
sopte as God ever intended to establish, does
not mean a heterogeneous mass of mankind
thrown together by all the alluring charms of
: cllmate and the libertinism of political chances,
but a homogenous body of men, drawn and
bound together by natural or family ties, and es
pecially so by the unity of religions faith and
the central idea of one true and living God to
worship and obey. To these essential elements
in a national compact, God turned the eyes of
all the enlightened nations of the earth iu
which his word is furnished, as a lamp to their
feet and a light to their path, by creating, or
ganizing and governing one nation of men,
pending the time in which God was revealing
himself and his will to the depositorians of his
commandments, his statutes, and his judgments.
In all these we see the national feature, very
decidedly prominent. From this we assume it
as certain that God did intend to lay down as
tire evidence of his will, the national composi
tion of a nation proper, and also the grand
constitutional element in national government,'
to-wit: the supremacy of moral law iu the
good ordering of society in its civil and social
relations. Heuce it is, thttt no nation can ever
have God for its Lord—that is. for its Supreme
Ruler—until its government is the practical
application of God’s moral law through the
legislatures and judiciaries of the nation—in
ihe restraint and punishment of moral evil.
Thus wc see, that the term nation, in so far as
its moral meaning is of importance, resolves
itself into the one characteristic idea of a vast
governmental agency in the earth. Therefore,
the central idea of a nation is contained iu its
legislators and its administrators. Government
in a nation is not only the fountain of its life,
but the propelling power of it. If is as cer
tain, therefore, that, the health of a nation de
pends on the diffusion of mora] nourishment
through tlu. body politic by this propelling
power, as it is,that physiological life depends
on the proper action of the central power of
the heart, and the quality of the current it dis
seminates through the vast labyrinths of 1 organic
life. The primary wheels of government must
all he constructed out: of Diviue material, and
the engine itself worked by Divine agents, or
all the outside religion that can ever be em
bodied inside of a nation, can never make the
thing itself ft tiling of God. The idea of a
nation whose God is the Lord, being committed
into the hands of ungodly legislators and ad
ministrators, by the voluntary suffrages of the
people, is supremely ridiculous. The proof
that heretofore we have not been a nation
whose God was the Lord, is full against us at
this very point. Our legislators and adminis
trators, taken as a whole, have been notorious
ly irreligious; so much so, that every seat of
government in all the nation was known to bo
a sink of sin, especially so ifi the number of
non-worshipping men to be found in it, and in
the extent of its lewdness. Lechery, in its
most covert, form, is known to be a cultivated
vice in all the metropolitan cities. Well then
may I say that national character in its moral
and religious condition is to be determined by
the moral and religious qu dities of its various
organs of political action. If these be general
ly irreligipus men—men of licentious lives—
you may know the nation does not either claim
or acknowledge God to be its Lord. The con
clusion thus drawn jn a nation where its organs
are chosen by popular vote, is as just as the
crime would be evident, if every voter was
sworn to vote for the most irreligious candidate
he could start. It is not worth while to deny
it. It is a fact gone to record to the infamy of
a reckless democracy, that irreligious men
could always be elected over religious men iu
seven out of every ten election precincts or
counties in this State; and that, too, in cases
where every requisite qualification was decided
ly in favor of the rejected candidate —ex-
cept his religiousness. Under such a poli
cy, and in the hands of such managers and
rulers, wc can never be a nation whose God if
the Lord. And until we reach tint point, there
is no heavenly benediction pronounced upon
us. And not only is there no heavenly bene
diction pronounced on us, but there is threat
ened against us the most fearful heavenly
maledictions. See Isaiah lx: 12, “For the
nation and kingdom that, will not serve thee
shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be Utterly
wasted.” And again, it laid down as a condi
tion of national preservation, that “He who
blesseth himself in the earth, shall bless him
self in the God of truth : and lie that sweareth
in the earth, shall swear by the God of truth.”
Isaiah Ixv : ltl. Thus declaring that all our
acts, civil and social, must be transacted in
view of God’s decrees. Without this, we ran
never attain to this pre-eminence.
1 have made this address to the officers and
privates of the Confederate army, because if
our nationality is gained by their patriotic
valor, ’on them who survive the struggle will
devolve, in a great degree, the future of our
national glory or shame. Their influence at
the ballot box will be controlling. If they will
resolutely determine to place the ruling powers
of the Confederacy in the hands of just, men,
that fear God as the Bible directs, (see 2 Sam.
! xxiii: 1,2, 3,4) but especially the words, “He
that iuleth over men must be just, ruling in
the fear of Gnl,’’ they will doubly save the
country. But how can this be secured iu a
popular government, unless its votevs deter
mine that ungodly sinners shall not be intrusted
with its moral interests. Now, therefore, when
the wards over, and independence.established,
1 advise that you openly and avowedly declare
your determination to make moral integrity
and Christian virtue indispensable qualities in
every man that is to be preferred to any office
needed in your country. If you will do this,
you will find supporters enough of this meas
ure to give you the power in the Confederacy
you will so richlv deserve; fail to do it, and
! you will only help to build up another political
j Sodom, which in due time will become the Dead
j Sen. of an unsanctified Republicanism. Blessed
j is the nation whose God is the Lord !
[7o be Continued.']
Braving Over It.—ln early life Stonewall
Jackson had been rather irreligious, but some
time after entering upon his duties as Professor
in the Virginia Military Institute, he made a
profession of religion, and joined the Presby
terian Church at. Lexington, un'der the pasto
rate of the Rev. Dr. AVbite. There was a
marked change in his life, but, for some time
he took n*> active part in church matters. At
last a faithful Elder took him aside one day,
and asked if “he did not think he ought, to
lead in prayer, and participate in the active
j duties of the church ?” He promptly replied,
! “ No, Tdo not think it my duty.” “ Have you
i prayed over it. Major?” persisted the Elder.
| “No, sir, I have not, but will do so.” The
| next day the Elder saw him walking rapidly
by his door without stopping, as was his wont,;
and fearing that he was trying to avoid the
! subject of the previous evening’s conversation,
he determined not to let the matter rest, and
calling after him to stop, accosted him with,
“ Have you complied with your promise, Major,
and made that matter a subject of prayer?”
“Yes, sir, and I was just on my way to tell
I)r. White to call on me to lead in prayer at the
prayer-meeting to-night-” From that day he
because one of the most active members of the
church.
“My soul is weary of my life. 1 will leave
my complaint upon myself. I will speak in the
bitterness of my soul.”
“ I made haste, I delayed not to keep thy com
mandments.”
“Oh, how love I thy law; it is my medita
tion all the day.”
‘‘Be not affected at a jest. If one throws
salt at, thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unlesi
thou hast sore, places.”
“ My breath is corrupt, my days are extinet,
the grave is ready for me.”