The Civil War era is marked by a number of religious subplots that involve Baptists. One such narrative is the birth and early years of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In the early 1820s, a Vermont Baptist minister, William Miller, became convinced that Postmillennialism (the prevailing Christian view, in the Western world, of the second coming…
Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints an article from the Richmond Dispatch that speaks to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers. Our soldiers are, for the most part, reading men. From childhood they have been accustomed to read papers, magazines, and books. Far from home, on the tented field, with so many leisure hours in…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a correspondent in the 1st Regiment of N. C. State Troops, identified as J. H. F. The correspondence echoes what many other Baptists in the Confederate army are saying: the South’s soldiers, by and large, are far from being Christian men. I am alone in…