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- Joined
- Jan 6, 2013
- Location
- Buford, Georgia
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Shortly after his death, Chaplain J. William Jones stated: "As I watched alone by his body the day after his death I picked up from the table a well use pocket ...Bible, in which was written in his characteristic chirography, 'R. E. Lee, Lt. Col. United States Army.'"
"As I turn its leaves and saw how he had marked many passages especially those teaching the great doctrine of salvation by grace, justification by faith, or those given the more precious promise to the believer, I thought of how, with simple faith, he took this blessed book as a man of his counsel and the light of his pathway; how it's precious promises cheered him amid the afflictions and trials of his eventful life; and how it's glorious hope illuminated for him 'the valley of the shadow of death.'"
"He had God in his heart," which made him "a leader unlike the famous captains of the ages. Alexander believed in himself, Caesar in his legions, Napoleon in his destiny, Lee in his God."
Source: "Robert E. Lee, The Christian" by William J. Johnson.
Pg. 231.
Shortly after his death, Chaplain J. William Jones stated: "As I watched alone by his body the day after his death I picked up from the table a well use pocket ...Bible, in which was written in his characteristic chirography, 'R. E. Lee, Lt. Col. United States Army.'"
"As I turn its leaves and saw how he had marked many passages especially those teaching the great doctrine of salvation by grace, justification by faith, or those given the more precious promise to the believer, I thought of how, with simple faith, he took this blessed book as a man of his counsel and the light of his pathway; how it's precious promises cheered him amid the afflictions and trials of his eventful life; and how it's glorious hope illuminated for him 'the valley of the shadow of death.'"
"He had God in his heart," which made him "a leader unlike the famous captains of the ages. Alexander believed in himself, Caesar in his legions, Napoleon in his destiny, Lee in his God."
Source: "Robert E. Lee, The Christian" by William J. Johnson.
Pg. 231.
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