> Editor’s note: The following sermon by North Carolina pastor Rev. Thomas E. Skinner was published in 1865.
> The Centurion was a Roman military officer in command of a hundred men. Six of these officers and their men constituted a cohort — six hundred men, while sixty of these made complete the invincible Roman legion of [thirty-]six thousand men.
> Of the various grades of officers commanding in the Roman legion, the Centurion, though not of the highest honor, was of the greatest use.
> Large bodies of troops are necessarily disciplined and commanded in broken numbers, and since the day of Moses and the Egyptians, the number selected as most advantageous has been that which is now commanded by our Captain.
> We do not over-estimate the value and use of the office of Captain when we declare, that the discipline in camp, the demeanour and soldierly bearing on march, the invincibility in attack, the success in pursuit and the order of retreat — all depend chiefly upon the qualifications of that office.
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