Meeting at Mount Zion Baptist church, Copiah County, the Mississippi Baptist Association addresses the ongoing war: “Resolved, That this Association do most earnestly recommend the churches to meet on the first Lord’s day in every month at ten o’clock to offer up special prayer for the success of our cause and the spiritual welfare of…
Baptists of the Roaring River District Baptist Association gather this day at Reddie’s River Church in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Like most other Primitive Baptist associational gatherings during the war, they decline to focus on the war. Primitive Baptists of the South, more than Southern Baptists, tend to maintain their heritage of strict separation of…
This week Richmond’s Leigh Street Baptist and several other city churches devise a plan to help care for poor citizens of the Confederate capital city during the coming winter months, as reported by today’s Richmond Daily Dispatch. Our readers will be glad to see that suitable efforts are being made to take care of the…