A “large and influential meeting” of Richmond, Virginia citizens takes place today. From the Richmond Dispatch: Shoes for the Soldiers. – A large and influential meeting of citizens was held yesterday [November 10], in pursuance of the call made in the daily papers, the object being to raise money to purchase shoes for such of…
Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown, a Southern Baptist layman, has evidenced an independent streak since the beginning of the war. Brown governs over a state whose citizens, most of whom are not slave owners, barely supported secession in early 1861. In this second year of war, Brown has demonstrated that he will protect the interests…
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…