As usual, we attended Mr. Peterkin's church, and enjoyed his
sermon. Every thing looks so dark without that our only comfort is in looking
to God for His blessing. The Union Prayer-Meetings are great comforts to us.
They are attended by crowds; ministers of all denominations officiate at them.
Prayers for the country, hymns of praise, and exhortations, fill up the time.
Some of the addresses are very stirring, urging the laity to work and to give,
and to every branch of the Christian Church to do its duty to the country. Our
brave old Bishop Meade, on his dying bed, admonished one of his presbyters to
speak boldly to the people in behalf of the country; and I am glad to hear the
ministers do it. They speak cheerfully, too, on the subject; they are sanguine
of our success, depending upon the Lord and on the bravery of our troops — on
the “sword of the Lord and of Gideon.”
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 332
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