The dawning of day greets many relieved residents of Murfreesboro: the Union garrisons are gone, thanks to Confederate General National Bedford Forrest’s raid of yesterday. The war will directly impact the town a number of times yet, but for the moment life is bit more peaceful. Meanwhile, to the west, Union forces maintain a tight…
The war transforms thousands of churches in the South, one of which is the home church of the woman destined to be the most famous Southern Baptist woman of all time: Lottie Moon (1840-1912). Today, the Scottsville Baptist Church of Virginia opens its doors–not necessarily by choice–to ill and wounded Confederate soldiers. Impressed by the…
Readers of this week’s North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder are treated to an essay entitled, “Who Will Stand in the Gap”?, which in part declares: In a time of abounding iniquity, God once said to his ancient people, after preferring sundry heavy charges against them, “As they gather silver into the midst of the furnace…