April 7th.
My precious pet, your sickness gives me great concern; but
so live that it, and all your trials, may be sanctified to you, remembering
that “our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.” I trust you and all I have in the
hands of a kind Providence, knowing that all things work together for the good
of His people.
Yesterday was a lovely Sabbath day. Although I had not the
privilege of hearing the word of life, yet it felt like a holy Sabbath day,
beautiful, serene, and lovely. All it wanted was the church-bell and God's
services in the sanctuary to make it complete. . . . Our gallant little army is
increasing in numbers, and my prayer is that it may be an army of the living God
as well as of its country.
SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of
General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 247-8
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