Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a North Carolina solider that touches upon many central themes of camp life: distance, death, religion, and vice. “A.H.C.” is stationed at Camp Pickens, Manassas, Virginia, with the 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops. Bro. Hufham: It has been my privilege to read your paper occasionally,…
Caroline Cowles Richards, a young lady living in Canadaigua, New York, has been maintaining a diary for ten years. Today she makes note of a significant day in the life of the First Baptist Church of her village: … went to the Baptist Church this evening to hear Rev. A. H. Lung preach his last…
An anonymous Baptist from Savannah, Georgia, pens a letter today that, when it is published in Baptist newspapers in the coming weeks, will shock and dismay many home front Southern Baptists. Something evil, in short, pervades the Southern Zion. An eminent divine of this city, just returned from Manassas, represents that place as wholly given…