A United States prohibition on commerce with the Confederacy has resulted in a shortage of Bibles in the South, as the American Bible Society is no longer allowed to sell or distribute Bibles southward. Exasperating this situation, the capture of the city of Nashville in February has shut down printing presses that were publishing pocket-sized…
Although the Union is securely in control of Missouri, bands of rebel guerrillas yet cause problems for the U.S. military. Today the general in charge of the Northwest Missouri district issues a report of recent rebel activity. One of the prominent culprits fingered is a Baptist preacher. HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NORTHWEST MISSOURI, Saint Joseph, Mo.,…
White Baptists of the Confederacy share many of the same war-related convictions as do white southern Christians of other denominations. At a time when southerners are reeling from a string of battlefield setbacks, this week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints a brief commentary, originally appearing in a Presbyterian paper, regarding differences between South and North:…