This month, Southern Baptist’s lone seminary closes its doors in response to war-time pressures. Commencement is canceled at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, as many students have already joined the Confederate Army. Seminary faculty in the weeks and months ahead engage the Southern war effort in various ways. President James P.…
Confederate hospitals in and around the national capital city of Richmond are rapidly filling up. Southern Baptists, in recent months focusing on publishing and distributing religious literature among soldiers, see an opportunity to reach hospitalized soldiers in the city. The ladies of Richmond’s First Baptist Church have done their part in this effort, as Richmond’s…
Delegates to the recent Rehoboth Baptist Association of middle Georgia, held at Traveller’s Rest Baptist Church in Macon County, are this week reporting back to their respective congregations. Rehoboth Baptists, assured of God’s hand upon the Southern Confederacy, have proudly made their convictions known: In the midst of the stiring events which are to effect…