Convened at the Barnwell Baptist Church in South Carolina’s Barnwell District (County), Baptist delegates of the Savannah River Baptist Association voice both weariness and resolute hope concerning the war. Another year has passed and we find ourselves still afflicted by the scourge of war. So far as human observation is concerned, the plot of this…
Pride in the Confederacy among white Southerners is evident in today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper. When the second temple of Jerusalem was erected, the contrast of its limited dimensions with the amplitude and splendor of the first, affected the old men, who remembered it, and they wept. Intent on the material structure, they thought…
The editors of the Richmond Daily Dispatch today reprint a patriotic story from Charleston that recently took place in a Baptist church: The Charleston Mercury, reporting the proceedings of the Baptist Association of that city, says: A pleasant incident occurred, which it may be interesting to relate. In the collection taken up at the Baptist…