Baptist newspaper editors of the South search Northern papers for any hint of negative press regarding the United States, often re-printing suitable articles with appropriate commentary. Such is the case in this week’s Virginia Religious Herald newspaper. We are indebted to a friend, for a late copy of the New York Independent–the organ of the…
Texas Baptists meet this month for their annual convention, collecting funds for army missions and destitute home front families and hearing reports of yet-growing educational institutions. The Texas Baptist State Convention met at Independence, on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in October. A delegation nearly twice as large as that of last year was present. …
Memphis has now been under Union control for over a year, the city serving as a strategic point on the Mississippi for the United States Army. From the beginning of the war Tennessee was a divided state, and the occupation of Memphis is welcomed by many residents of Union sentiment. This week the one remaining…