"The General had a magnificent estate in Fluvanna County, Virginia--was President of the American Temperance Union, was prominently identified with many of our national benevolent institutions, and was withal very fond of doing good in a genial, quiet way. On one of his visits to Richmond, Miss Jennie Taylor, daughter of his old friend Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the Union Theological Seminary in Prince Edward County, had recently been married; and, while attending to his business, he ran into the store of her husband to congratulate him. The bride was a great favorite with him, as she was with a very large circle of the best people in the State, who loved her for her own and her honored father's sake. As the General was about to leave, he said: "'I wish to make you and your bride a very valuable present,' and handed him a tract of four pages. "'Thank you,' said he, and immediately took from his desk a copy of 'Come to Jesus' and said, 'Please accept that in return, General, and don't fail to read it.' "But a few days after this the General was in the city, and called again at the store, and said: "'Where can I get copies of that little volume, "Come to Jesus"? I am delighted with it, and must have a quantity for distribution.' "'I order them by the hundred copies from the Tract Society in New York,' was the response, 'and always keep a supply on hand to give away as I have opportunity.' "The General soon procured a supply, and he had so many proofs of their great usefulness--so many of those to whom he gave them expressed their gratitude, and testified to the great benefit they had received from their perusal--that he ordered them again and again, and scattered hundreds of them over the country." "How can I get a lot of them?" said my host, quite fired with the missionary spirit by this recital. I told him that I knew of no nearer place than the depository of the American Tract Society at Cincinnati, Ohio, which was several hundred miles distant. He would not rest until I had written out for him the address of Seely Wood, the depositary, and given him full instructions how to order them. On my next annual visit to the county I found several copies of "Come to Jesus" in the family of a Presbyterian elder, living near the county-seat, and, inquiring of him how he obtained them, he said: "I found a package of them addressed to me at the post-office, and the postmaster said they had been left there by Mr. ----" (my host), "and that he left several other packages there addressed to Rev. Mr. ----, principal of the seminary, and the officers of the different churches."