'Weep over your own condition'

During the summer of 1863, this story was recorded in the midst of the revival in the Confederate Army.
"In the retreat of our army from Middle Tennessee one of the soldiers," says Dr. W. A. Mulkey, a surgeon in the army, "was struck by an unexploded shell, the ponderous mass sweeping away his right arm and leaving open the abdominal cavity, its contents falling upon his saddle.  In a moment he sank from his horse to the ground, but soon revived, and for two hours talked with as much calmness and sagacity as though he were engaged in a business transaction.  Soon several of his weeping friends gathered around him expressing their sympathy and sorrow.  He thanked them for their manifestations of kindness, but told them that instead of weeping for him they ought to weep over their own condition; for, sad to say, if, even among the professors of his company, there was one who lived fully up to the discharge of his Christian duties, he was not aware of it. He said, 'I know that my wound is mortal, and that in a very short time I shall be in eternity: but I die as has been my aim for years- prepared to meet my God."

-from The Great Revival in the Southern Armies by Chaplain W.W. Bennett