As the Battle of Chacellorsville (Virginia) winds down and proves to be a victory for the Confederacy, this week’s readers of the North Carolina Biblical Recorder read more letters from army missionaries serving among Confederate soldiers. One such letter is written by army colporter J. A. Stradley, who, during this time of growing revivals within…
Spring has arrived in the South, ushering in new worries that there will not be enough food crops this year to feed the citizens of the Confederacy. A Southern Baptist pastor this week offers advice to poor Confederate families who are facing lean times. I am persuaded every church ought to take care of its…
The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention continues in Griffin. The (Southern) Baptists gathered in the town’s first Baptist church are a mixture of city and rural ministers. Some own large numbers of slaves, and most are supportive of the peculiar institution whose financial profits under gird Southern Baptist missions. As such, perhaps it…