This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...care for its membership, met in council, and decided to get up a petition and send it to the Confederate congress, praying that body to release our members from bearing arms, averring our non-resistant principles. Brother Wrightsman was chosen to carry the petition to the sedt of government. When he set out upon his mission, he found the train loaded with southern soldiers. At Jonesboro a Methodist minister came into the car and took his seat by the side of Brother Wrightsman. From this point we will permit Brother Wrightsman to tell his own story, as related in the Brethren's Almanac for 1871. "Presently he asked me whether I was not a minister. I told him I was. He inquired of what persuasion. I told him the Brethren. He wanted to know what we believed, and, in enumerating to him different points, I mentioned non-resistance. 'And do you not believe, ' said he, 'that it is right to fight for our glorious Confederacy?' To which I replied. 'No; for the Savior has said, "Put thy sword into its sheath," and we are to love and do good to our enemies." (Soldiers in Confederate uniforms were thick around.) "Methodist: 'Then do you not think General Washington was a good man?' "'My Bible, sir, does not say anything about Washington.' "Methodist: 'Well, do you not think that God set up this government by Washington?' "'Yes, ' said I, 'but does not God use one wicked nation to scourge another, and make use of individuals to carry out His purposes, and yet they be wicked? And do you not think General Washington was a good man, and that God set up this government by him?' "Methodist: 'Yes, I do believe it.' "Then said I, 'What do you think will become of you Confederates who are trying to pull down and...

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