Should Southern Baptists (and Confederate Christians at large) hate their brethren in the North? An editorial in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder seeks to answer this question. The Marquis of Hartington, who visited the South some months ago, said, in a speech delivered since his return to England, that the feeling by which…
North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder editor J. D. Hufham offers his current, and rather sober, assessment of the war effort as news of Confederate victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville filters southward. The next few weeks or months will be productive of results of vast moment to the people of this nation. The enemy seem…
As the Battle of Chacellorsville (Virginia) winds down and proves to be a victory for the Confederacy, this week’s readers of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder read more letters from army missionaries serving among Confederate soldiers. One such letter is written by army colporter J. A. Stradley, who, during this time of growing revivals within…