Southern Baptists’ concern from the children of the war leads to the introduction of a new Sunday School publication this month. “Kind Words” is a child’s “Sunday-school paper” that is published by the recently-formed Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The board’s three officials, Charles J. Elford (board director and printer), Basil Manly,…
The South Carolina Baptist State Convention meeting concludes today in Darlington. Army missions (missionaries and colporters both) have been much on the minds of delegates. A listing of religious tracts produced for Confederate soldiers in the past twelve months offers insights into religious materials that are currently circulating in army camps. TITLE. No. Pages. No.…
This week Basil Manly Jr., co-editor of the newly-formed Baptist Sunday School Board along with John A. Broadus, from South Carolina sends a letter under a flag of truce to Richard Fuller, pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Baltimore. Manly is desperate to obtain New Testaments for use in Sundays Schools in Southern Baptist…