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…
This week’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder publishes a letter from a correspondent in the 1st Regiment of N. C. State Troops, identified as J. H. F. The correspondence echoes what many other Baptists in the Confederate army are saying: the South’s soldiers, by and large, are far from being Christian men. I am alone in…
The Domestic Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention meets today to address war-time mission strategies. Indian missions, previously the main thrust of domestic mission efforts, has faltered because of the war. A new emphasis is needed, and a committee appointed to investigate mission work among Confederate soldiers Board thus suggests Southern Baptists seek a…