Today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reprints an article from the Richmond Dispatch that speaks to the spiritual needs of Confederate soldiers. Our soldiers are, for the most part, reading men. From childhood they have been accustomed to read papers, magazines, and books. Far from home, on the tented field, with so many leisure hours in…
The Domestic Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention meets today to address war-time mission strategies. Indian missions, previously the main thrust of domestic mission efforts, has faltered because of the war. A new emphasis is needed, and a committee appointed to investigate mission work among Confederate soldiers Board thus suggests Southern Baptists seek a…
Readers of weekly Baptist newspapers of the South (and there are more such periodicals based in the South than in the North) are fed a constant war-time diet of war-related editorials and commentary; first-hand accounts from Baptist soldiers, chaplains and missionaries; and political, economic and battlefield reports (reprinted or summarized) from secular newspapers. Far from…