Southern Baptist army missionary A. E. Dickinson today writes of revivals in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. I have within a few days received the most cheering accounts from the Army of Northern Virginia. In almost every regiment protracted meetings are in progress, and souls are being born into the kingdom.…
The sins of Confederate soldiers are an oft-discussed topic in the North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder, contrasted alongside a growing body of eyewitness accounts of revivals in the camps. Today’s edition of the newspaper offers two articles about army camp life. The first is an account of an encounter between an anonymous chaplain and card-playing…
Even as some Southern Baptists rejoice over revivals in the Confederate army, others lament over the evilness of Confederate soldiers. Can God’s nation be saved by an unrighteous army? An editorial in today’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index sounds a dire warning. The demoralization of our army is said to be fearful. An intelligent gentlemen said…