Revival in the Confederate Army

Well, the last couple of quotes have been rather lengthy, as a friend recently gave me some helpful comments about my attempt at blogging. I will try and keep them a little less lengthy. Oh, and sometimes the whole quote is in italics, I have no idea how it happened or how to correct it, so I do apologize for that.

This quote is again from Christ in the Camp from Rev. J.C. Clopton while he was laboring at the Rockbridge Hospitals.

"As I go along among the hospitals my heart is pained at seeing so much to be done and so few laborers. Sometimes I see several physicians going around together to consult about the physical man- to see if the body can be saved from the power of disease, while scarcely any one seems to be concerned about the disease of sin or the death which never dies." p.212

This next quote is from the same book and is an account of the conversion of Lieutenant-General Ewell.

"I have it from a well-authenticated source that the conversion of Lieutenant-General Ewell, Jackson's able lieutenant, was on this wise: At a council of war, one night, Jackson had listened very attentively to the views of his subordinates, and asked until the next morning to present his own. As they came away, A. P. Hill laughingly said to Ewell, "Well! I suppose Jackson wants time to pray over it." Having occasion to return to his quarters again a short time after, Ewell found Jackson on his knees and heard his ejaculatory prayers for God's guidance in the perplexing movements then before him. The sturdy veteran Ewell was so deeply impressed by this incident and by Jackson's general religious character, that he said: "If that is religion, I must have it;" and in making a profession of faith not long afterwards he attributed his conviction to the influence of Jackson's piety."
-J.W. Jones