Today the Tallaseehatchie Baptist Church, Talladega County, Childersburg, Alabama meets and passes a resolution memorializing the deaths of three Confederate soldier members earlier this fall. In the battle of Chickamauga Sept. 19th 1863 our Brethren Abram M. Glazener, Wm. A. McLeanty, and Richard W. Griffith fell martyrs to the cause of Southern Independence, by the…
An editorial in this week’s Virginia Baptist Religious Herald posits that if everyone in the Confederate States would simply believe the biblical gospel, then Southern troubles would “vanish into air.” Lamenting the lack of gospel belief in the North, the writer makes no bones about the true gospel being that of racial purity–white supremacy and…
News of the revivals among Baptists of the South are not confined to Baptist newspapers only. The nightly meetings at two of Richmond’s Baptist congregations merit mention this week in the Richmond Daily Dispatch: Revival meetings among Baptists are attracting sizable numbers of attendees. A protracted Meeting is being held every night in the Second…