Among Southern Baptists, the drumbeat continues: extortioners must be shamed into repenting of their sins so that God can unleash his blessings upon the Confederacy and bring the war to an end. Today’s missive comes from Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index. While published this day, the editorial was penned in the midst of the Battle of…
From Harrell’s Store in Hanover County, North Carolina, a writer identified only as “Stella” makes a home front appeal to the women of the Confederacy in this week’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder. I read an article today in the Richmond Whig, on the condition of our army, which stirred my soul to its very…
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…