The long reach of a caring Baptist minister (a pastor and American Baptist missionary) is evidenced today in a letter written by a Michigan soldier in the Michigan 7th Infantry Regiment, Company I. Head Qrs 7th Mich Vols Near Raccoon Ford Va. Sept 30./63 Dear Mother I am very busy just now with my monthly…
Today Georgia’s Sarepta Baptist Association meets in annual session, gathering at Millstone Church in Oglethorpe County to pray and preach and lift each other in the face of sober news trickling down to them after the battle of Chickamauga. Although Confederate forces won the battle, the rebels lost more soldiers than did the invaders, and…
War pressures are doing strange things to some Baptists of the South. Abandoning any pretext of being faithful to the Baptist heritage of religious liberty for all, two editorials in this week’s Georgia Baptist Christian Index insist that the Confederate government govern by biblical laws regarding the Sabbath. One editorial goes so far as to…