- Joined
- Dec 3, 2011
- Location
- Laurinburg NC
"Probably in late summer, he encountered on a street corner an old subordinate he had not seen in years, Raleigh R. White, one time lieutenant colonel of the Fourteenth Tennessee Cavalry. The two greeted each other warmly, and Forrest asked White what he had been doing for a vocation in the postbellum years.
"Preaching the Gospel of the Son of God, White stoutly replied. "What!" Forrest said in surprise. "I thought you were in South America or Europe. Tell me about yourself and your work." Years earlier, another officer-minister who served under him had met him in Memphis and reminded him of a war promise he had made to become a Christian when peace came. That time, his eyes flashing toward the uniforms of Federal occupation troops around them, he had growled a reply to the effect that there was too much un-Christian work still to do.
This time he asked White to pray for him. The two stepped out of the street into a corner of the parlor of a bank and got on their knees. There White helped him perform for himself a rite that for five decades he had left mostly to his family’s women.
Forrest became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.
Via Tom Pardue Sr. The account of Forrest's conversion from Jack Hurst's biography."
"Preaching the Gospel of the Son of God, White stoutly replied. "What!" Forrest said in surprise. "I thought you were in South America or Europe. Tell me about yourself and your work." Years earlier, another officer-minister who served under him had met him in Memphis and reminded him of a war promise he had made to become a Christian when peace came. That time, his eyes flashing toward the uniforms of Federal occupation troops around them, he had growled a reply to the effect that there was too much un-Christian work still to do.
This time he asked White to pray for him. The two stepped out of the street into a corner of the parlor of a bank and got on their knees. There White helped him perform for himself a rite that for five decades he had left mostly to his family’s women.
Forrest became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination.
Via Tom Pardue Sr. The account of Forrest's conversion from Jack Hurst's biography."