. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... THE CHRISTIAN ANNUAL 79 Southerner, but he hiul a heart big enough to reeeive and welcome any truechild of Ciod from any (luarter of the earth. He was very careful as to theconditions of union at Marion, but when the crisis was passed, no one wasmore delighted than he that we were once more ONE. The life of Col. Savage w^as full of interesting incidents, which well written,would read almost like fiction. I may mention just one. Those whorecall his appearance will rea:en:ber that he had lost a lind) in the Civil heard him tell of how he
. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... THE CHRISTIAN ANNUAL 79 Southerner, but he hiul a heart big enough to reeeive and welcome any truechild of Ciod from any (luarter of the earth. He was very careful as to theconditions of union at Marion, but when the crisis was passed, no one wasmore delighted than he that we were once more ONE. The life of Col. Savage w^as full of interesting incidents, which well written,would read almost like fiction. I may mention just one. Those whorecall his appearance will rea:en:ber that he had lost a lind) in the Civil heard him tell of how he lost it. He said, during his service in the war,it had been his invariable custom to begin each day by first committing hims-elfto the Lords keeping. One morning one of his men vexed him sorely, and inthis confusion he lost sight of his usual season of prayer, and did not thatmorning commit himself to the Lords keeping, and that day he was shotthrough the limb, just above the knee, necessitating the amputation of the did not claim that his
Size: 1255px × 1992px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidchristianann, bookyear1912
