Today’s Biblical Recorder, newspaper of North Carolina Baptists, notes a visit by Thomas H. Watts–Confederate Attorney General and prominent Baptist laymen of Montgomery, Alabama’s First Baptist Church–to Grace Street Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia for a colportage meeting (that is, a meeting focused on the printing and distribution of Bibles and Baptist literature to Confederate…
Confederate Army camp life perplexes Southern Baptists. While lamenting over the evils in the camps, they also relish the possibility of evangelizing the masses of southern men who are housed in cramped, crude quarters far away from home and hearth. Such an environment, some Southern Baptists contend, should make the South’s men more open to…
Southern Baptists continue ramping up efforts to support the spiritual life of Confederate Army soldiers. Today’s Richmond Times Dispatch reports on the latest soldier publication being promoted by the Baptist Colportage Board of the Baptist General Association of Virginia: Rev. A. E. Dickinson, General Superintendent of Baptist Colportage in Virginia, has presented us with a…