Whose side was God on in the Civil War? Was God on the side of the North giving them the victory and freeing the slaves? Was God on the side of the South standing with them as with the Israelites in Babylon? Is this even the right question to ask? Chaplain Farley tackels a question often asked at battlefields across the land.

It was one of May's sweetest mornings that I met a clergyman of the village of D--, and received from him an invitation to be present at a meeting of brethren in his church. At the time appointed I was there, and, with no small satisfaction listened to several who narrated their Christian experience. It was at this meeting I met the subject of this narrative, and heard from his own lips the story of his wondrous wickedness against God, and of God's more wondrous goodness and grace to him.