“These days are fraught with many blessings,” Julia Stanford, a teacher in Forsyth, Georgia comments this week. “Would that we had heart to appreciate them – Truly the lines have fallen in pleasant places. God’s ways are far above our poor ways.” Against the backdrop of distant battlefields and a cloudy, rainy week at home,…
The Milledgeville (GA) Southern Recorder newspaper voices the thoughts of many white Baptists in the state: [The capture of Fort Sumter] is indeed a good beginning on our side, and imparts great moral strength to our cause … The South is acting strictly on the defensive, and in no instance has been the aggressor; but…
At this time, Baptists in the North and South are heavily invested in mission work among Native Americans. Growing sectional hostility, however, threatens to undermine Native American missionaries and mission activities. By the end of the war, southern Baptist work among Natives will largely cease to exist. The Choctaw Nation today issues a resolution expressing…