Richmond’s Daily Dispatch today carries a story about the growing revival in Confederate army camps in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia. Baptists and others are reaping the benefits of the spirit’s movement. John L. Burrows is the pastor of Richmond’s prominent First Baptist Church. In addition to pastoring, during the war Burrows ministers diligently to Virginia’s…
Southern Baptist minister J. D. Hufham, editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, addresses his view of the current situation in the Confederacy as winter turns into spring and the second anniversary of the war nears. Winter is gone, and Spring is here. We feel it in the atmosphere and see it in the…
The voice of renowned Virginia Baptist minister — and president of Richmond College (later University or Richmond) — Robert Ryland is appealed to this month in the pages of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald. Ryland’s pastorate is that of the First African Baptist Church of Richmond, where he has served from 1841 (the year of…