The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-02-28

There has been a great change in my
views and feelings lately. felt Oh com
munioa Sabbath as If [ really loaysd 10
be with you at the table aud | hope I
shall be at the next. bat | am so IN
worthy" l looked up and there vas a
tear III his eye, the only one ever saw
there. We conveIsed together Tor half
an hour and | left him without a doubt
upon my mind that he WAS a true believer
in Christ, though he was without the
evidence he Gravel for himself
After we had entered PENNSYLVANIA.
and only day or two before the battle
OF Gettysburg, vas again riding in his
company, and he was speaking of the
impending battle. Said he, II am fully
convinced that only Gods help can gain
us this battle. We must look To Him.
The odds are all against us" said, Il
hope, Colonel, your personal trust is in
Him" Yes, sir, L believe it is. | have
sought Him as Il lost Saviour-eiven my
self up to Him, l don't think there is
anything [ would not do to serve him ;
bur still | feel SO unworthy"
Oh, that 3rd day of July that charge
upon Cemetery Hill My mind becomes
bewildered as | think of it, My heart
grows sad as | recall the brave and noble
ones that bit the dust in that fatal
assault! And Of them all none was no.
bier or Drawer than Hugh r. Miller.
He feel, MORALLY wounded, while
charging at the head of his command and
within a stones throw of the enemy's
works. 1t was impossible to bear him
away, and he fell d prisoner into the en-
emy's hands. There he was found by
his son day or two afterwards, and
borne to the house of a kind christian
family who were natives of Maryland.
and tenderly and skillful nursed. The
wound, which had at first been pro-
nounced fatal, began to heal and the
surgeons pronounced him out of danger,
and his arrangements were all being made
to be sent through the lines under special
exchange. During this interval of
week or more of COnvalescence, his mind
was, as | learned from pious members of
the household where he was entertained,
constantly exercised on religious subjects.
His son had informed him that | was
within the Federal lines in charge OF the
wounded at the ld-hospitaI, and he
had time and again expressed his great
anxiety to see me- Not knowing where
he was, had searched through all the
hospitals for him in vain, and had given
up the hope of seeing him, when a mes
senger came for me, saying that second
airy hemorrhage had ensued, and he was
dying from his wound. | FASTENED to
his side to find him already speechless.
He asked the attendants again and again
if [ were not yet come. As | entered the
room his face frightened up with joy
Gus smile, and evidently summoned all
his energies to tell me something which
he was anxious to communicate, but his
lips were already sealed in death. He
made a motion with his hand for pencil
and paper and they were quickly given
to him, but the fingers were too much be
numed to do the Office of the lips. A
shade Of disappointment passed over his
face. He had evidently been buoyed up
by the hope of communicating with me-
Not moment was to be lost, for the life
current WAS ebbing with every breath.
| bent over him and whispered in his ear
''Shall [ tell her, Colonel, that her pray
ers are answered, that you died happy,
trusting in Christi" A smile overspread
the ashy face, the eyes kjndled once
more with a glance of intelligence, the
lips slightly moved and the head gently
nodded assent. And then the eyes
closed, and the pulse almost instantane-
ously ceased to beat, and over the cold
clay fingered the smile which the last
words lie eyer heard on earth had
awakened.