Today’s South Carolina Confederate Baptist newspaper publishes the obituaries of two ministers whose lives were taken earlier in the war. Both were pastors of churches in the state’s Reedy River Association. REV. R. B. HALK. A member of New Harmony Church, licensed in 1859. He was sent to school two years under the guardianship of…
Circulating in the Southern Baptist press this week is a brief piece from a correspondent in the Confederate capital of Richmond who profiles a Baptist leader who has devoted himself to the “religious instruction of our slaves.” In the midst of wide spread indifference toward the religious instruction of our slaves, and the efforts of…
In a post-Gettysburg world, some Southern Baptist leaders begin considering the possibility that the South may lose the war. It is an unpleasant and distasteful thought, and such acknowledgments are tentative and limited. An editorial in today’s North Carolina Baptist Biblical Recorder takes a peek at what a Confederate loss may mean. As Southern Baptists…