The Alabama State Baptist Convention meets this month in Selma, “a beautiful city on the bluffs of the Alabama river.” During the conference “the principle subject, of course, was the moral culture of our soldiers,” as one participant, identified only as “N. P. Y.”, reports afterward. The same observer offers an account of the main…
The writings and sermons of Charles Spurgeon, perhaps the best-known Baptist preacher in the world, remain unwelcome in the Confederate States of America. A long-outspoken opponent of African slavery and a minister in a nation (England) that has spurned Confederate offers of a military alliance, Spurgeon this month, in his London Metropolitan Tabernacle, returns to…
Southern Baptist army missionary efforts continue to grow. Today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder prints the testimony of a pastor who had earlier doubted the positive effects of Army Colportage (literature distribution), but who now praises all three elements of Baptist army mission efforts: chaplains, missionaries and colporteurs. In the same newspaper, a letter from…