This year’s biennial meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention is scheduled to take place in May in Columbus, Mississippi. That state, however, is now under imminent threat from the southward push of the Union Navy and federal soldiers. At the same time, there is some talk of canceling the meeting altogether. Holding the meeting “seems…
Talks of revivals within the Confederate Army increasingly occupy space in Baptist newspapers of the South. The influence and work of faithful chaplains is said to be aiding the spread of revival fires. Or is this so? Alex Morgan, the Assistant Surgeon of the First Georgia Regiment, currently stationed at Camp Cumming near Mobile, Alabama,…
Revivals in the Confederate army camps and doctrinal debate among Baptists of the North offer two glimpses into Baptist life today. Today’s edition of Virginia Baptists’ Religious Herald reports that revival meetings within Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s army have been going on for “fifty-five consecutive days and nights without regard to weather or other…