North Carolina Baptists this week read an account of the faithfulness of three faithful young men from their state who are serving in the Confederate Army. In the 60th Regiment of N. C. Troops there are three young members of the Berea Baptist Church. These brethren have had but few opportunities of attending public worship…
This month’s edition of The Baptist Missionary Magazine reports on the work of Northern Baptist missionaries throughout the world. Despite the war, Baptist missionary work continues in earnest in nations large and small, among people groups well-known and relatively obscure. Within the periodical is a copy of a recent letter from an unnamed Baptist missionary…
In the midst of a war pitting two opposing views of God, the Bible and Christianity against one another, journalist Samuel Clemens in Nevada adopts the pen name of Mark Twain. Following the war, Twain gains fame as a humorist. He also becomes known as a satirist and critic of Christianity and the Bible. While…