Prayer and God will save the honor of the South. Many Southern Baptists thus wish to believe. A pseudo-anonymous letter published in today’s North Carolina Biblical Recorder reiterates this certainty of thought. Mr. Lincoln very complacently strokes his royal beard and puffs his Havana with a peculiar grace, for he says, with an air of…
The Confederate Congress has been meeting all week. Richmond’s First Baptist pastor, J. Lansing Burrows, is a fixture, offering the opening prayer of many of the congressional sessions. Meanwhile, from across the Atlantic Ocean, today’s edition of The Illustrated London Daily News offers commentary on the distant conflict. The important news has been received that…
Recent military reversals worry Southern Baptists as much as their fellow countrymen. A commentary in the Baptist press this week offers much-needed assurance and vows defiance. In times of war, victory and defeat follow each other, and rejoicing and sorrow are mingled like light and shade in a picture. A few days since, the Southern…