The Alabama State Baptist Convention meets this month in Selma, “a beautiful city on the bluffs of the Alabama river.” During the conference “the principle subject, of course, was the moral culture of our soldiers,” as one participant, identified only as “N. P. Y.”, reports afterward. The same observer offers an account of the main…
Rev. A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, traveling throughout the Confederacy as a representative of the temporarily-shuttered Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board and coordinating Southern Baptist efforts to distribute Bibles to soldiers, this week offers a message of future hope (as related by a reporter) for his fellow white Southern Baptists. …. Christianity has achieved its…
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina is wrapping up their annual convention. The subject of war has arisen a number of times, including a lengthy discussion of the need to put religious periodicals–particularly the state Baptist paper, the Biblical Recorder–into the hands of Confederate soldiers. Seemingly the most spirited debate related to the war…