This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the water of life? Here is work for every one to do. During the war in the battles around Fredericksburg, Va., the two armies had come together with a mighty crash, and after a brief death-struggle, had fallen back only a few paces behind hastily erected breastworks. Men from both armies, wounded and dying, were ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the water of life? Here is work for every one to do. During the war in the battles around Fredericksburg, Va., the two armies had come together with a mighty crash, and after a brief death-struggle, had fallen back only a few paces behind hastily erected breastworks. Men from both armies, wounded and dying, were there in the hot sun between the lines. A sergeant in Colonel Kershaw's regiment, afterwards General Kershaw of South Carolina, turning to him said: "Colonel, don't you hear those men over there crying for water? I have some in my canteen; let me go over there and give it to them." He said: "Why, man, if you were to show your head above those breastworks, you would be killed in an instant." The gallant fellow lay there a while longer, and said again: "Colonel, I cannot stand this. Let me go over there and give them some water." "Well, said the colonel, "if you want to risk you life, I will not stop you." Crawling down behind the breastworks, he got four or five other canteens that had water in them, and then suddenly standing a dozen bullets whistled by him in an instant, but the bullet had not been made to strike him. He stepped over the breastworks, and the first man he came to, no matter whether he had on a blue suit or a gray, he bent over and took his head in his hand, put the canteen to his lips, and said, "Here, take a swallow of this water." The Federal soldiers discovered at once what the man was doing, and rose up all along the line, and so did the boys in gray at the same time, and waved their hats and shouted, " Hurrah for the man who risks his life to give a dying soldier water!" Over yonder battlements of heaven to-day the angels are bending, and with exulting shouts o...
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Fair. Original cloth, 5x7 3/8 inches, vi + 242 pp + ads, illustrated with 3 plates. Fair. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there, spine tanned and foxed, approximately 1/8th inch chipping at head and foot, 1 ½ inch tear at top edge of rear joint, textblock separated from binding, a half-dozen or so dogears, paper lightly age yellowed, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Texts of sermons on a variety of subjects, plus two lectures, including an account of a tour of Europe. Religion; autobiography; Christian; Evangelical.
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