The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Frist day in Dicemond.

‘ The churches were well attended, and the sermons in some instances powerful. The services at Paut's, the church attended by the President, were peculiarity solemn and impressive. The choir was enriched by one or the clearest and sweetes soprano voices to which I have ever listened, and the discourse of the Rev. Mr. Wilmer contained enough original and striging thought to make up a some of common-place sermons. The them was the duration of the war, and it was treated as became a man and a Christian--a true Southern man, full of love for his country and his country's cause, and full; too, of just resentment and righteous indignation against the base, besotted, and God forsaken winknes who seek to crush us under the earliest of despotisms. Yet it was no political sermon, but abounded an gennine Christian doctrine and sentiment, in humble recognition of the rod which the Almighty has said upon us for sins. Some of the point were admirably made, as, for instance, this: That without the shedding of blood there is noremission of sins; but, said the speaker, a nation has no life hereafter, its hell, is on this earth, and its sins can be remitted only by sheeding the blood of its sons — the first born, the truest, and the best. Thoughts like this, uttered in tones the most earnest and thrilling; made the heart of the congregation stand still more man once."

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