August is revival season among Baptists of the South. Each year from August through September, most Baptist congregations set aside a week or more for revival meetings. During this time, many churches acquire the bulk of their new members for the entire year, with many new converts joining by confession of faith and baptism. The…
Confederate Baptists in the army and on the home front continue bewailing the inherently evil nature of the army of God’s chosen nation. Such is the debauchery of camp life that some argue there is no room for Christianity. “The Camp, No Place to Become a Christian.” — Thus spoke a sick soldier, as we…
James Burrell Jones’ second son is born tonight, the day before eighteen-year old Jones marches off to war, leaving his teenage wife to raise two children and tend their south Georgia farm. She “did all the farming, plowed, hoed and everything that has to be done on a farm. She also spun and weaved…