MOMENTS OF MERCY AND FOUNTAINS OF FORGIVENESS (16)
Scripture: Nehemiah 9:16-38
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Moments of Mercy and Fountains of Forgiveness (16)
Series: Nehemiah - Rebuild, Restore, and Revive
Donald Cantrell
Nehemiah 9: 16 - 38
I - Failure and Disobedience (16 - 18)
II - Forgiveness and Deliverance (17b, 19 - 25)
III - Faithfulness and Devotion (26 - 38)
Theme: ''None of us could survive without God's mercy and forgiveness''
Moment of Mercy (Dr. Ike Nicholson - Pulpit and Table)
The Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 was one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. The Confederate Army had taken positions behind stone walls along Sunken Road at Marye's Heights. Federal troops made repeated frontal assaults against the wall. In five hours, over 6,300 Union troops lay dead or wounded. As evening approached, snow began to fall and the temperature dropped to below zero. One Union Commander was so tormented by the cries of wounded soldiers for water and mercy, he wrote in his journal, ''My ears were filled with cries and groans of the wounded, and the ghastly faces of the dead almost made a wall around me.''
By the afternoon of the following day, a 19-year-old Sergeant, Richard R. Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry, could take it no longer. With the permission of his commander, he filled as many canteens as he could, then he hurdled over the wall and ran to the aid of Union soldiers. The Federal lines began to take shots at the Confederate until they saw that his mission was one of mercy. The Union Commander shouted to his troops, ''Don't shoot that man, he's too brave to die.'' For 90 minutes the battlefield was quiet, both sides observing a solemn truce as the good Samaritan ministered to enemy wounded soldiers, which was later characterized in the sculpture ''Moment of Mercy'' on display at the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The plaque beneath the sculpture describes the character of those dark years: ''Soldiers in blue and soldiers in gray repeated this incident m ...
Series: Nehemiah - Rebuild, Restore, and Revive
Donald Cantrell
Nehemiah 9: 16 - 38
I - Failure and Disobedience (16 - 18)
II - Forgiveness and Deliverance (17b, 19 - 25)
III - Faithfulness and Devotion (26 - 38)
Theme: ''None of us could survive without God's mercy and forgiveness''
Moment of Mercy (Dr. Ike Nicholson - Pulpit and Table)
The Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 was one of the fiercest and bloodiest battles of the American Civil War. The Confederate Army had taken positions behind stone walls along Sunken Road at Marye's Heights. Federal troops made repeated frontal assaults against the wall. In five hours, over 6,300 Union troops lay dead or wounded. As evening approached, snow began to fall and the temperature dropped to below zero. One Union Commander was so tormented by the cries of wounded soldiers for water and mercy, he wrote in his journal, ''My ears were filled with cries and groans of the wounded, and the ghastly faces of the dead almost made a wall around me.''
By the afternoon of the following day, a 19-year-old Sergeant, Richard R. Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry, could take it no longer. With the permission of his commander, he filled as many canteens as he could, then he hurdled over the wall and ran to the aid of Union soldiers. The Federal lines began to take shots at the Confederate until they saw that his mission was one of mercy. The Union Commander shouted to his troops, ''Don't shoot that man, he's too brave to die.'' For 90 minutes the battlefield was quiet, both sides observing a solemn truce as the good Samaritan ministered to enemy wounded soldiers, which was later characterized in the sculpture ''Moment of Mercy'' on display at the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The plaque beneath the sculpture describes the character of those dark years: ''Soldiers in blue and soldiers in gray repeated this incident m ...
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