Excerpt from William Preston Johnston: A Character Sketch William Preston Johnston was born, January 5, I8 31, at Louisville, Kentucky. He was the son of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston of the United States Army, afterwards General in the Confederate forces, and Henrietta Preston, daughter of General William Preston. His father was at that time in active service in the regular army, and as such liable to constant removals through the exigencies of his military life. His mother died when he was four years old. With the ...
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Excerpt from William Preston Johnston: A Character Sketch William Preston Johnston was born, January 5, I8 31, at Louisville, Kentucky. He was the son of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston of the United States Army, afterwards General in the Confederate forces, and Henrietta Preston, daughter of General William Preston. His father was at that time in active service in the regular army, and as such liable to constant removals through the exigencies of his military life. His mother died when he was four years old. With the exception of this time, his childhood and youth were passed under the care of his maternal relatives' first, with his aunt, Mrs. Rogers, and afterwards with his uncle, General William Preston. He attended the schools of Louisville; the Academy of S. V. Womack at Shelby ville, Ky.; the Western Military Academy, at Georgetown Ky., and, for about a year, Centre College, at Danville. While here he was the subject of deep religious impres sions during one of the revivals which so frequently at tended the preaching of the President of the College, the saintly and gifted John Clarke Young. These impressions remained with him through life. For while he did not often talk about religion, he practiced its teachings con stantly, and showed by his actions and his habitual tem per, that he lived as seeing Him who is invisible. Hence his life everywhere and always was a testimony for God, and for all that our holy religion means to those who use this world as not abusing it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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