Today off the coast of France the Confederate’s prize naval warship, the CSS Alabama, is sunk by the USS Kearsarge in the Battle of Cherbourg. With the sinking of the Alabama, what little hope the Confederacy had left on the high seas is gone, as virtually the entire Southern coast is effectively blockaded by the…
Today a Northern Baptist missionary in France writes a letter to the American Baptist Home Missionary Society, referencing the war between the American states: First of all, will you allow me to say to you again how much your “life-and-death struggle” interests us. Yes, we remember that you are fighting the battle of freedom for…
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…