Army and Navy herald. (Macon, Ga.) 1863-1865, April 06, 1865, Page 2, Image 2

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2 JUinn and sfDv.tltl. ROBERT J . II ARP* KOJt or. MACON, GA., APRIL 6, 1865. Directions How to Obtain the Army and Nayy Herald. Chaplains, Missionaries, and others who are authorised to distribute the paper, will please observe the following directions: I. Give, as near as practicable, (unless under ♦ircumstances where it would be improper to transmit such information), the command or ‘ commands which you propose to supply, and * the probable number of messes in each, inclu ding officers. In hospitals, give the number of patients. ' 2. If one or more of the commands supplied >y you is removed out of your reach, give police immediately thereof, and endeavor to •forward any supply which may be sent before the notice reaches us. 3. If you expect to remove from the place to which we have been addressing your pack ages, give us notice in time sufficient to stop them ; if the change is sudden and unexpected, authorise some reliable friend to forward to you, and telegraph to us, if practicable, to “ stop shipping till further orders." 4. Let us hear at least twice a month whether your packages are received or not. You need only say : 7he Herald, No. - —and No. have been received: unless there has been a reduc fcion or increase in the number of patients in the hospitals or men in the commands, in which ease notify of such fact. , 5. By observing the above directions, you will save thousands of dollars worth of papers, which would be lost to the Association and to the cause, by neglecting thorn. .N. B. Where we have General Distributing Agents iu an Army or at, a Post, the Informa tion required in direct ions 1, 2 and 3 will be given directly to them. -«sp. - Laudable En,terpri~— llev. (’ « ->vtr,»jrtiun of the Polk Ilos •—< is teaching a Soldiers’ School at the quarters of that hospital, in the Asylum build ings. between the hours of two and live o’clock each afternoon. The course of study will em brace reading, writing, arithmetic and vocal music. The instruction is entirely gratuitous, the books and stationery have been furnished by the liberality of the citizens of Mobile. The ' soldiers in the different hospitals i* Macon are ; invited to attend. Agent p.t Mobile. Lev. W. L. (J. llunnioutt is on his way to Mobile, and wilf represent the Soldiers' Tract Association as General Distributing Agent far the army in and near that city. All supplies of reading matter will, after next week, be sent to him, and the Chaplains and Missionaries will obtain their supplies from him. / —— Smoking Tobacco. We acknowledge the receipt oh a package of Superior “A” No. 1 Smokino Tobacco from the house of Messrs. T. \Y. Freeman k Cos., of this city. We advise those who are fond of whiffing the smoke from the weed to give them a call. <p* Receipts Por Subscriptions to the Army and Navy Herald, from the IG ill of March, to Ist April, 186-y OttLKTIieRPK, GA. ’Mrs. Sarah E. Martin, $10; Mrs. J. W. Smith, $10; Mrs. M. L. Sltealey, $10; Mrs. ! Benj. Harris, $10; Mrs. Elizabeth Souter, $10; Mrs. W. 11. Felton, $10; Mrs. M. J.. Moutford, $10; Mrs. W. M. Stockton, $10; Mrs. Sarah Matthews, $D>; Miss Margaret R. Mcßride, $lO : Miss Rebecca Matthews, $10; Miss Maggie Waters, $10; Miss Georgia Rogers, $iU; W. B. Jones, $10: Morgan Price, $lO. SODA TOWN, GA. Mrs. Mary A. Perry, $10; Mrs. Julia A. Murray, $10; Mrs. Frances L. Thompson, $10; Miss Eliza J. llobhs. $10; Win. M. Stuckey, $10; Dr. J. M. Culpepper, $10; Rev. Wyatt Brooks, $lO. ELLAVILLE, GA. Olin D. Black, $10:. Mrs. Mary A. Moseley, $10; Mrs. C. A. Singleton, $10; Rev. IV. D. Stewart, $10; F. J. Green, $lO. MONTEZUMA, GA. Miss Sarah Beverly, $10; W. A. Ausley, $10; John M. Strozier, $lO. WAYNESBORO’, GA . 11. Sandeford, $lO ; Mis3 A. E. Shewmakc, $lO. LUMBER CITY, GA. M. N. Mcßae, $10; Peter McArthur, $lO. Augusta, Ga.— John 11. Feares, $lO. Bainbridge, Ga. —Mrs. J. L. McElveen, $lO. Jacksonville, Ga.—C. C. Smith, $lO. llawki.nsville, Ga.—J. T. Mobley, S2O, THE ARMY & NAVY HERALD. Monthly Report Os Rev. W. A. Parks , General Collecting Agent Soldiers' Tract Association. Ttrltsv. Robert.!. Harp, Sup’t: The foilswing amounts have beea collected in South-western Georgia during the month of March, 1805: March s..Lanier $ 210 00 March 12. .Travelers’ Rest., 725 75 March 19 l Oglethorpe 1,332 50 -.-Texas Sadlery (detail of) 185 00 PrEarrison's Brigade .. .. 18t> 00 March 19.. Lutheran Church, Macon f county 129 ofl March 26. .Ellaville 770 00 March 26..8ethe1, (Lanier circuit,) not reported. Our soldier* in the field will perceive fro:* the above figures, that notwithstanding the high taxes, and the fact that many of the plan ters are bonded to sell their surplus at Govern ment. prices, the people at those places visited during the month, have not forgotten to send them the Word of Life. A little girl in Macon county sold her large, beautiful doll, as Ihe only means of obtaining money to contribute to this cause. A young lady in Ellaville Con tributed one hundred dollars. We pray that the blessings of God may accompany the above contributions#and the religious reading which you may send the soldiers. All of which is respectfully submitted. W. A. Parks, Agent. April Ist, 1865. * -*■ [For the "Army and Navy Herald.] ( To the Officers and Soldiers of the 1 . Confederate Army. BT RET. L. I'IEUCR, I>. 1). [ Continued .] ‘•Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen foi his own inheritance.” —Psalms xxxiii: 12. i We come finally to inquire what is meant bj f the words, “ The people whom he hath chases \ for his own inheritance." Inheritance is a tens generally used to design,ate a possession tha ( comes to its possessor by means of legal de* sopirf tno primary meaning of the words now being considered, it is to be found in this very line. The Jewish people were the legitimate descendants of Abraham; God had entered into covenant with him, and made cir cumcision the token of the oovenant as to family stock, and the sSal of tlie righteousness of faith as ]o religion. This token he was place upon his male children and upon the malc3 of his household; that is, his servants. The moral obligation imposed upon Abraham in this covenant was, that he should command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, in doing justice and judgment, that God might bring upon Abraham all that he had spoken herein : as l understand it, God laid down in the most unmistakable manner, the way in which parental and house hold authority must be used in order to raise up a people who can be united into a nation “whose God is the Lord,” and into a “people whom he will choose for his own inheritance,” a people among whom lie will live and walk—a people unto whiui he will be a God. These were the benefits and the blessings which were promised to Abraham’s descendants, even jib a nation. Such a natioual religion, transmitted from sire to son, and from master to servant, as a national education, not only imposed, but impressed ou them, by all the solemn sanctions of justice, and by all the necessities of the soul’s immortal interests, as well as by an official assignment of every successive genera tion to God as a people bound by covenant, ob ligations to keep his laws, and rely upon his promises for national prosperity and for re ligious acceptability, leads to that happy estate spoken of in the text, a people chosen by him “as his inheritance.” The peculiar benefit of this economy is often spoken of iu reference to the .Jews, in thiswise: “Blessings bestowed on them, for their father’s sake.” Let no one underrate the covenant mercies of God—they are worth all they can ever cost, both nationally and individually. I should be exceedingly shocked, to hear any man say, that his chance for salvation would be as good from out of an. infidel family, that never taught hint to say, “Our Father which art in heaven,” as it would be from the midst of one that had devoted him to God in baptism, and raised him up iu cove nant with God. Yet this would be true, if it be true, that the covenant mercies of God have no securing efficacy in them when properly used. From all which l infer that these under lying principles, which are to mix and mingle with all life’s currents, are to be regarded as no less vital to a nation, in as far as its'Divine succor is concerned, than they are to a church. The notion that God will, as the Jehovah, pro tect and .defend an ungodly nation, because there is a pure church in it, is silly. The text says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” ; not blessed is the church whose God is the Lord. If we could conceive of a nation, •very inhabitant of which was individually a Christian, and yat tliare was no nstioaal recog nition of the Christian religion as of Divine authority, and of national hope and defence* all that could be affirmed of it would be, that it was a nation of Christians—no one could affirm that it was a Christian nation, because Christianity, as a Divine scheme of mercy, is the world’s only hepe of salvation—in a word, is the culmination of all the Father's infinite love and mercy in the redemption of our fallen race, through his only begotten son. To exalt the Divine essence—the love of God—aad show .that God is leve, demanded all that, we see in the wonderful issues of man’s creation and re demption, and as is affirmed in various forms of speech, was intended to make God in Chriat" the aentral idea of all nations of men. A» Ha is indeed the enly object of saving faith to evary repentant sinner, why should a nation hesitate a moment either to acknowledge or to declare its fixed belief in Jesus Christ, as “the way, the truth, and the life" ? Ought not every nation, Divinely taught as we are, to be disowned by him, so long as we either fail or refuse to acknowledge Jesus Christ “ to the • glory of God the Father,” which is no more than believingly to worship in the Godhead the Father, the Son, and the lloly Ghost-three persons in one God ? The beauty of this mys terious revelation of God to man is, that whether we address Father, Son, or Holy Ghost in out* supplications, we address in each, what consti tutes the fullness of the Godhead bodily, if we come before the throne of grace upon the foundation of faith revealed to us in God’s holy word, all of which was provided for in the order of national, theocratic education. The Jews were expressly.required to teach all these Divine statutes to their children ; a duty which, of course, pro-supposed the thor ough understanding of God’s Jaws themselves. And in the 78th Psalm we are especially noti fied that the abject of this indoctrination was, that they might set their iiope in God. this end, it is evident, that the Jehovah of the Old Testament, who was the Christ of the New, di rected all of his administrative demonstrations. In all this national faith, it teems to me, wo American Christians have been criminally re miss, so that it is now a grave question whether the form of our government, in the way we have used it, is net unfavorable to the organi zation of a Christian, national government. If the newspaper reports bej tins, it is now evident that a large body of the enfranchised citizens of the old United States protest against Lite acknowledgment of the divinity of Christ in their amended Constitution. Suppose this to be true; and then suppose the national power, from motives of Democratic policy, to yield the point; does not every one see that the effect would be the establishment of Judaism instead of Christianity, in so far.as national policy is involved? The reverential acknow ledgment of the Christian religion, and of Jesus Christ as “God oyer all, and blessed for evermore,” is just what we need to make us a nation whose God is the I/ord, and a people whom ho will,choose for his own inheritance. England is perhaps the only-nation on earth that has east her anchor within the safe sound ings of the Christian religion. Site did it upon a thorough conviction that the truth as it is in Jesus was in the faith and the formularies of Protestant Christianity, as it was notin Roman Catholicism. On ihis foundation she estab lished lier throne, and God has given to it a permanency which now challenges the world to find for it any other sensible reason of its sta bility except the one given in our text, which is that. England's “God is the Lord.” If the Confederate States of America will erect a. national government en the foundation </f the Christian religion as it is in Jesus Christ, we may illustrate its glories, perhaps, boCev than they. But we are a doomed people if tve ignore Christ to flatter unbelief. [7'o be Continued .] Till! Family.— The family circle is God’s bles sed ordinance, and is the sweetest, the happiest the most hallowed spot on earth. It is the nursery of affection, of friendship, and of virtue the place where those ties of mutual dependence and help are first formed, which, in their ex panded state,finite human society; and accord ing to the manner in which the rights of the fam ily circle are enjoyed, its duties discharged, and its true benefits realized, are the moral chaffs actrer, the stability, and the grandeur of a coun try- _ _ “I am rich enough,” says Pope to Swift, and can afford to give away a hundred pounds a year. I would not crawl upon the earth with out doing a little good. I will enjoy the pleas ure of what I give, by giving it alive, and seeing another enjoy it.” “When Idle,” adds the poet, “ I should be athamed to leave enough fora monument, if there were a wanting friend above the ground.” [For the Army and Navy Herald.] My Dream li Y GUILLAUME. Her head was on my shoulder leaning, Her hand in mine was gently pressed. Her eyes so soft and full of meaning, Were bant on me, and I was blessed ! No word was spoken, all was feeling, The silent transport of the heart; The tear that o’er her cheek was stealing, Then told what words could ne’er impart. And could that be but met e delusion, Could Fancy all so real seem ? Here Fancy 'g scenes were wild confusion, And could it be, I did but dream ? I'm sure I felt her forehead pressing. Her very breath stole o’er my cheek ; I'm sure I saw those eyes confessing What tongue could never, never speak But now ’tis gone, and never, never For me such waking joy may be ; Yet I could sleep, would sleep forever, Could I the while thus dream of thee ! Light anb Life from tub Cross. —The Bible is a history of liim who groaned on Calvary. From that sacred summit a flood of light broke forth upon the world. It was the dawn of re demption. Superstition fled affrighted before the glorious appearance of Christianity, andthe Church of the living God arose ou the ruins of the heathen altar. The automatons of pagan idolatry tumbled to the dust, and the false dei ties perished on Olympus. That glorious gos pel which effected this great “WWijk is contain ed within the Bible. Like the rainbow which is hung out in the heavens,lt was sent as a token that God would be mindful of us. Glori ous token! I rejoice when I read it, and I would recommend it to all my fellow travellers to the grave. The waves of time are rolling ou to sweep us away, and as we pass through the dark vale of death, the light of Calvary will illuminate our path to the supurb palaces of God. Darkness and death are horrific to the lonely taiud, butthe Bible will overcome those terrors,' and infuse a calm serenity in the darkest hour of existence. <#• Getting Rid of Satan. —Prayer is good in itself, but that is not the way to get rid of Satan —jh is thinking of Christ. We get to saying, “ 07 Ouit j had stronger faith ! Q, that I had love to Jesus!” It is good for a Christian to sny that, but it is enough ; the way to overcome Satan, and to have peace with God, is through Christ. “I am the way”—if thou wouldst know the way, eome to Christ; “I am the truth”—if thou wouldst refute the devil’s lies, come to the truth ; “ 1 am the life”—if thou wouldst be spared from Satan’s killing, come to Jesus. A Merited Rebuke. —ln addressing a jury upon one occasion, the celebrated Lord Jeffreys found it necessary to make free with the char- acter of a military officer, who was present. Upon hearing himself several times contemptu ously spoken of as “the soldier,” the son of Mars, boiling with indignation, interrupted the pleader. “Don’t call me a soldier, sir, I am an officer.” Lord Jeffreys immediately went on: “ Well gentlemen, this officer, who is no soldier, was the sole cause of the mischief that had occurred. ► <«>•■=■— Truth and Falsehood.— A late eminent and eccentric lawyer in one of his addresses to the jury, explained the meaning of this phrase by relating the following fable, worthy of old JEsop himself: “Truth and Falsehood travelling ®ne day, met at a river, and both went to bathe at the same place. Falsehood coming out of the water first, took his companion’s clothes, leaving his own vile raiment, and went on his way. Truth coming out of the water, sought in vain for his own proper dress, disdaining to wear the garb of Falsehood. Truth started, all naked, but has never overtaken the fugitive, and has ever since been known as “ Naked Truth.” A friend in need is a friend in deed. In or der to have a friend, you must first become friendly'. Cultivate, therefore, the 1 tvely grace of friendship. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than the face of a faithful friend—fair est when seen in darkest day. A real friend never deserts his fellow. Little Evils. —Great crimes ruin compara tively few. It is the little meannesses, selfish nesses and impurities that do the work of death on iaost men ; and these things march not to the sound of fife or drum. They steal with muffled tread, as the foe steals on the sleeping seutinel. , Heaven. —It is glory; it is a weight of glory ;an exceeding weight of glory; a far more exceeding weight of glory. —Pay sen.