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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fast day sermons. (search)
Fast day sermons. We append some sketches of sermons delivered in this city on the late Fast Day, which the heavy demand upon our columns obliged us to defer yesterday: Broad street Methodist Church. The Rev. James A. Duncan preached a most appropriate, instructive and powerful discourse, to a large congregation, from the words contained in the 51st chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah, from the ninth to the sixteenth verses inclusive. "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lo that. We shall meet in a better land" After a time, and almost his last words, he said, "If I could only see my mother and get her last kiss. I would willingly die and go up yonder to a sweet little sister we buried six short months ago. Oh, Mr. Duncan, wouldn't that be Grand — wouldn't that be Grand." The name of this young hero who thus quested not before the last enemy, is George Whitfield Stevens, of Savannah, Ga., a member of the Oglethorpe Infantry, and of the immortal Eighth Regim