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…
Today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch profiles a Richmond Baptist college that is a newly-converted Confederate hospital, one of dozens of hospitals in the city treating wounded Confederate soldiers. Richmond Female Institute. – This fine building, on 10th street has been taken by the authorities and is now being rapidly fitted up as a hospital for the…
Today, a letter from “J. J.” is published in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder, calling for righteousness on the part of Southerners in order to ensure Confederate victory in the war. The cause for which our country is now contending should inspire every person to renewed energy and fervent devotion and dependence on God and…