Southern Baptist efforts to supply religious reading material to Confederate soldiers are now well underway. George J. Sumner, Treasurer of the Baptist Colportage Board, is now living in Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate Capital. This month he reports that the board has received $3,500 to assist in providing religious reading material to the Confederate Army in…
Today is Sunday, the Christian Sabbath. As is often the case these on Sunday mornings during these troubling times, the subject of war – whether directly or indirectly, in large part or in passing – is mentioned from many Baptist pulpits, South and North. What does a typical Baptist church look like in the Confederate…
Today tiny Lebanon Baptist Church in Crawford County, Georgia, convenes in a business meeting and grapples with war, death and God’s will. Anguished over the loss of a solider member and his father, the congregation issues a statement “in memory of our deceased Brethren O. M. McAfee & A. J. McAfee.” In the midst of…