Southern Baptist foreign mission and Indian mission efforts have fallen by the wayside, spiritual casualties of the war. In their place is a now-intense focus on mission work among the Confederacy’s white men serving in the army. Believing they are called of God to save the army in order to save the nation, Baptist leaders…
Cut off from the North and the world, the Confederacy struggles economically. Soaring inflation and shortages of food and clothing create unrest and uncertainty among the wealthy and poor alike. Southern Baptist army missionary and colporteur A. E. Dickinson of Virginia, however, offers a solution to banks and wealthy individuals who may be hoarding cash.…
Southern Baptists, like other southerners, miss many northern goods because of war-related trade sanctions. Yet in one respect, Baptists of the South voice gladness that a particular northern industry has been marginalized: as of this week, Bible publication is no longer dependent upon northern printing presses. The Tennessee Baptist thus reports: The first set of…