Friday, November 23, 2012

1862 November 23 Fauquier County, Va.


[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Sunday, November 23, 1862


Can truly say that I had every desire to
spend a pleasant Sabbath but did not
keep the law.
    Went to my room to read but as
usual the children made so much
noise that my  thoughts were drawn
from my Bible & I could not read it.
put it aside & got The Pastors Testimony
which I read all day but At sun down
went to dinner & sat almost an  hour
                                        listening
talking to ma, & afterwards ^ to Pa when he
came in to give us the news at dined at Dr B[lackburns]
& heard that Jackson had gone=so we are
left with only a few cavalry & they will leave
when the Yankees come.
  Came to my room after talking a little
to the children, put them to bed &
had more than two hours quiet which
I enjoyed--But my Bible is not
the pleasure to me I would like it to
be=I know that I do not love God
supremely my heart is most unfaithful-But
I trust that in Gods own good time
he will "enlighten the eyes of my
understanding," & teach me out of his
book these things which are now so dark
to my blind eyes.

John Alonzo Clark The Pastors Testimony

[portions transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]

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