A letter “To Christians in the Army” from an anonymous Southern Baptist “layman” is published first in Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index, and then today in North Carolina Baptists’ Biblical Recorder. The letter, targeted at young soldiers, represents yet another voice in a larger chorus of Southern Baptist home front pleas for Christian Confederate soldiers to…
August is revival season among Baptists of the South. Each year from August through September, most Baptist congregations set aside a week or more for revival meetings. During this time, many churches acquire the bulk of their new members for the entire year, with many new converts joining by confession of faith and baptism. The…
Confederate private J. E. W. Henderson, born in 1829 in Georgia and now a resident of Alabama, today experiences that which Baptists of the South are praying for their soldiers: salvation. After the war he serves as a Primitive Baptist minister and editor, preaching the Gospel of local-church centric missions and ministry (rather than denominationally-coordinated…