OUR COMFORT IN DYING; CIVIL WAR SERMONS BY R.L. DABNEY, STONEWALL JACKSON'S CHIEF-OF-STAFF.. Este artículo no está disponible.OUR COMFORT IN DYING; CIVIL WAR SERMONS BY R.L. DABNEY, STONEWALL JACKSON'S CHIEF-OF-STAFF.

The Heidelberg Catechism asks: "What is thy only comfort in life and in death?" Answer: "That I, with body and soul, both in life and in death, am not my own, but belong to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ." Robert Lewis Dabney preached this doctrine in Confederate camps throughout the American Civil War, serving as the chaplain of the 18th Virginia in 1861 and the parson-adjutant to Stonewall Jackson during the Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862. Poor health forced Dabney eventually to resign, but his "sturdy piety," gripping sermons, and fervent prayers were "a great impetus" to the religious awakening which later swept through the Army of Northern Virginia.  In the 1880s, Dabney wrote out a number of his wartime sermons which "were formed indelibly impressed upon [his] memory," hoping to have them published under the title, Army Sermons, or Discourses. This compilation lay forgotten in the archives of Union Seminary for a century, but Sola Fide Publications presents it now for the first time with a new title, glossary, and introduction, along with some additional sermons. Eyewitness accounts are also included to illuminate Dabney’s effectiveness as a minister of the Protestant faith in the Confederate armies. Never before has such an extensive set of Civil War camp sermons been published.

Jonathan W. Peters labors at Reformation Bible Church and Harford Christian School (Darlington, MD) as an administrative assistant, middle school soccer coach, and 5th grade Civil War instructor. Since 2016, he has led numerous tours of Gettysburg for church and school groups, now costumed as a Union major. He was also interviewed by Brady Crytzer on Battlefield Pennsylvania: Battle of White Marsh, which aired on the Pennsylvania Cable Network in September 2019.